Literary studies: from c 1900 - books

This book is the first full length study of the postsecular in African literature It explores how postsecular negotiations...  Read More >>

This book discusses how Dambudzo Marechera rethinks utopia as an ongoing event that contests institutionalized narratives...  Read More >>

Considering Conrad’s transcultural background, this volume investigates the essential features of his expatriate...  Read More >>

Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir,...  Read More >>

This work approaches, from dual perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced perspective...  Read More >>

Drawing on Foucault-inflected philosophy of technical mediation, Futures of the Human Subject analyzes several recent...  Read More >>

This volume examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of new Indian English fiction to explore the power of language...  Read More >>

Enric Valor is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This selection of his highly popular...  Read More >>

This book explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing, 1960s-2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and...  Read More >>

Reading lifewriting that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto...  Read More >>

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition to put a fresh, cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

Women Writing Trauma in the Global South explores complex suffering in the work of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende...  Read More >>

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing...  Read More >>

This is a book of meditative reading with an aim to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades...  Read More >>

I argue for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public...  Read More >>

Afropean Female Selves offers a comparative study across two languages of a notion that has so far been explored...  Read More >>

The monograph focuses on Martí’s posthumous legacy on generations of Cubans everywhere. It examines roughly 120-year...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac brings together 19 leading...  Read More >>

The reception of Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. This book focuses on the Russian and Soviet uses of...  Read More >>

With seemingly obsessive regularity, American authors, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, evoke the...  Read More >>

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time....  Read More >>

Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’s idea and practice of...  Read More >>

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Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty assesses the theological and linguistic uncertainties of Simic’s poetry...  Read More >>

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