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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

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

Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis offers the first comprehensive and......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

This companion constitutes the first, systematic theorisation of the Italian Gothic. Through an interdisciplinary, trans......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

"Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the commodity of our global era. Wars are fought over it. Some comm......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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An updated edition of the beloved final volume in Joseph Campbell’s monumental Masks of God series, Creative Mythology t......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

A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare’s pla......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

This book is a foundational text on the art of playwriting, exploring the principles of creating compelling drama. Baker......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

What is ’translation’? Even as the scholarly viewpoint of translation studies has expanded over recent years, the notion......more

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

Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundam......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

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