Literary Studies: General

Artificial humans were always there, moving and sleeping amongst us. Their first traces are in the ancient myths of Prometheus and Pygmalion. In th...

This volume comprehends articles focussing on phonetic aspects of languages and language varieties spoken in present-day Europe. The standard langu...

The first volume of William Godwin's letters reflected the origins and impact of his great philosophical work, An Enquiry concerning Political Just...

Messing with Romance is a reinvestigation of southern literary history and a case study in the potentials of genre criticism. Offering contextualiz...

This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and o...

Speculative realism is one of the most exciting, influential and controversial new branches of philosophy to emerge in recent years. Now, Evan Gott...

This book is a reconstruction and presentation of the fundamental assumptions of the so-called weak thought, as elaborated mainly by the Italian he...

This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural product...

In recent decades, theoretical and critical studies have oscillated between, on the one hand, wrestling otherness from a condition in which it is d...

Horace’s Satires have a distinctly dialogic quality – not for nothing does Horace himself choose to call these poems sermones, ‘conversations’. Eve...

This collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of...

The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collec...

Poesis artificiosa was known in the literary heritage of ancient Greeks and Romans, and in the Far and Middle East. Its tradition was preserved in ...

The idea of heroism has become thoroughly muddled today. In contemporary society, any behavior that seems distinctly difficult or unusually impress...

Working with processes of translocation enabled Edward Said to point out interdependence and complementarity across geographical borders and discip...

Examines a range of literary responses to images drawn from the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath A focus on texts that (with the obviou...

The volume is an attempt to read William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury while bearing in mind three phenomenological philosophies of death as pr...

This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange...

In Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason Barry Sandywell outlined and defended a central place for reflexivity in the human sciences. In thi...

Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature e...

The book forms a monograph of the local culture of the old Polish Livonia, practically absent in contemporary humanistic research. It includes hist...

The formation of new countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European block necessarily brings about an increased awarenes...

The book is a study on intensifiers and reflexive pronouns between two languages (English and Mandarin Chinese) and the first one drawing a complet...