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In earlier work Patrick Colm Hogan argued that a few story genres--heroic, romantic, sacrificial, and others--recur prom......more

Semiotics and multimodality combined together create new forms of signification in the Divine Comedy. It contributes to ......more

How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking? When, why, where and how do these things change? This boo......more

This book examines the validity of the notion of the ’vernacular’ and the position of the so-called ’vernaculars’ in col......more

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science The 120 years between Henry ......more

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Thinking with Words: A Literary Groundwork provides a unique foundational introduction to the depths and glories of lite......more

"Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media......more

CRASH! explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, musi......more

Could an ancient tradition replace social media? What if we shared our thoughts with the bees, rather than the hive mind......more

Could an ancient tradition replace social media? What if we shared our thoughts with the bees, rather than the hive mind......more

A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profo......more

The intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questi......more

What does it mean to read queerly? The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading upholds intersectional thinking to recognise......more

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively ......more

This book examines literacy education in Senegal. It assesses some of the impacts of French policies on the overall Sene......more

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Queer futures begin with the body. In Never on Time, Always in Time, Kate McCullough explores how writers summon queer b......more

This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America. Using reception theor......more

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

What is the relationship between aesthetic presentation of thought and scientific conceptions of cognition? Torsa Ghosal......more

Examines the need to recenter the category of sex-theorizing sex itself as nonbinary-in contemporary studies of gender a......more

Examines the need to recenter the category of sex-theorizing sex itself as nonbinary-in contemporary studies of gender a......more

Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Mangu......more

Instead of making readers into better people, what if fiction could help us to become better animals? On Fiction and Bei......more

Considers how Joseph Conrad’s works engage with silence...more

Exploring the relationship between theory and practice in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this volume offers a st......more

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As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary......more

This book critically examines how the production and reception of performed poetry has changed in the wake of digitaliza......more

In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemp......more

In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemp......more

Foundational theories of meaning, and the broader metasemantic projects they contribute to, promise to answer the seemin......more

Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, contex......more

In "after modernism" the meanings of "after" include periodisation, homage and critique. This book attends to neglected ......more

From the nineteenth century to the present, literary entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe have be......more

Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy emba......more

Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy emba......more

"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better li......more

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, ......more

The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to wr......more

The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to wr......more

Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and schola......more

Sinophone studies--the study of Sinitic-language cultures and communities around the world--has become increasingly inte......more

Sinophone studies--the study of Sinitic-language cultures and communities around the world--has become increasingly inte......more

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains-art included. In this major contribution to the study of ......more

Proposes that we can best understand literature’s relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In a series ......more

Proposes that we can best understand literature’s relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In a series ......more

This volume represents the first biography of Alice MacDonald Kipling Fleming (1868-1948), known as Trix. Rarely portray......more

A fictional manual to help disrupt today’s all-too-real energy and climate emergencies The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (......more

This edited volume gathers together studies examining various aspects of physical culture in literature written in Frenc......more

Temporal Experiments uses literature, music, and visual art to think through the subtle workings of time in our intellec......more

This approach to literary reading of any provenance based on an "experimental cosmopolitan" epistemology. It recontextua......more

This volume is the first to examine in parallel the ways in which twentieth- and twenty-first century Anglo-American Dan......more

Problematic assumptions which see humans as special and easily defined as standing apart from animals, plants, and micro......more

Establishing science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the g......more

Over the past three decades, Jean-Luc Nancy has become one of the most celebrated contemporary philosophers. His remarka......more

Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida’s thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to h......more

Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and......more

This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early......more

Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time reveals the fundamental, constitutive role of the temporal dimensions of waiting ......more

This study examines the work of the principle architects of Anglo-American modernist poetics - T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Po......more

James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality reads Dubliners and Ulysses through studies of hospitality, particularly that arti......more

The role of nineteenth-century French literature in a distinctively modern political movement When Parisian workers took......more

This volume reflects on different regional and national experiences of the COVID 19 pandemic, with contributions from In......more

This volume reflects on different regional and national experiences of the COVID 19 pandemic, with contributions from In......more

There is a growing interest in studying narrative discourse as ’experimental values laboratory, ’ both reflecting social......more

In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to ......more

In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to ......more

The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe ......more

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This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour’s works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena ......more