Illuminates how the power of light shaped early twentieth-century art, culture, and poetry. In Brilliant Modernism, Nico......more

Illuminates how the power of light shaped early twentieth-century art, culture, and poetry. In Brilliant Modernism, Nico......more

An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century. At ......more

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the connections between memory and literature. Organized into six inter......more

First published in 1974, New Directions in Literary History is a comprehensive attempt to present approaches to literary......more

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A study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature The prostitute, the protester, the murder vic......more

A study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature The prostitute, the protester, the murder vic......more

Returns us to Gertrude Stein’s theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude S......more

Blue Extinction in Literature, Culture, and Art examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity l......more

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The relationship between medievalism and reception explored via a rich variety of case studies. At the intersection of t......more

This edited volume discusses the topic of immersion, approaching it from the perspective of various media and stakeholde......more

Why do people wear shirts with the Shakespeare quote "to be or not be?" or a portrait of philosopher Slavoj Zizek? How d......more

Drawing on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, this book intervenes into debates concerning the relation between jealo......more

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An updated edition of the beloved final volume in Joseph Campbell’s monumental Masks of God series, Creative Mythology t......more

Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory argues that the train is a loaded trope for reconfiguring narrat......more

Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africa’s cha......more

How modernist interartistic experimentation and the proliferation of new media technologies inspired fresh insights into......more

Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africa’s cha......more

How modernist interartistic experimentation and the proliferation of new media technologies inspired fresh insights into......more

At a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this literary i......more

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Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length study of animals in ......more

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-century authors of all sortsâ ......more

A close reading of James Baldwin’s short story "Sonny’s Blues" that provides insight into his life and ideas about art. ......more

This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/......more

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within sci......more

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative n......more

Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and histor......more

Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCulle......more

In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, whic......more

Poetics of the Iconotext makes available for the first time in English the theories of the respected French text/image s......more

This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history. In three periods in the twe......more

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Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin’s paradigmatic m......more

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-century authors of all sortsâ ......more

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-century authors of all sortsâ ......more

Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse throug......more

This volume studies the literary voices of the Italian diaspora in Britain, including 21 authors and 34 pieces of prose,......more

In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (alleged......more

What do we mean by semiotic perception? Why should the concepts of perception and expressivity be reinterpreted within t......more

On the politics of literature: how writers create the world In The East Was Red Pankaj Mishra beautifully demonstrates, ......more

This book interrogates the relationship between the material conditions of Woolf’s writing practices and her work as a p......more

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-century authors of all sortsâ ......more

This monograph delves into recent evolutions in virtual reality (VR) storytelling, focusing on entertainment-based works......more

This volume offers new perspectives on the ways in which migrants use storytelling practices and kinship formations in o......more

This volume lays theoretical and methodological groundwork for the analysis of Mesopotamian literature. A comprehensive ......more

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction brings c......more

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This volume is the third volume in Palgrave’ Macmillan’s new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series. Iris Murdoch and the L......more

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. X-rays are po......more

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This book presents a systematic elaboration on Chinese literature and its criticism, with special reference to introduci......more

The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological bre......more

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