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Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism
In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language’: even his shipboard communities were the...
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the...
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Animals and Science Fiction
Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies....
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Truth Claims Across Media
This book offers an intermedial approach to truthful communication. Bringing together a wide range of media types and interactions from a transmedial...
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The Ethics of Nonfiction Rhetoric, Ethos, and Identity
This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality
This handbook provides an extensive overview of traditional and emerging research areas within the field of intermediality studies, understood...
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Taking Place Environmental Change in Literature and Art
Taking Place: Environmental Change in Literature and Artexplores how works of literature and art help us to rethink the ways that we have perceived,...
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Writing Landscape and Setting in the Anthropocene Britain and Beyond
This edited collection offers an in-depth exploration of the role of landscape and place as literary ‘settings’. It examines the multifaceted...
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German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century to the Present Controversies, Positions, Perspectives
This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together...
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Placing Disability Personal Essays of Embodied Geography
Placing Disabilitypresents an international collection of personal essays that address the experience of disability in particular geographical...
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Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics A Requiem for the Real?
This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which 'alternative facts' and post-truth...
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Introduction: Cicatrix Poetics: Chicana Literary Trauma Studies
Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. In this book, I aim to...
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Coyolxauhqui and Coming of Age in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
In an exploration of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984) as a survival narrative, I propose a theory of transformative narrativity, a...
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Literature’s Theories
The assumption sustained in this article is as basic as it is simple: theory is an integrated dimension of any work of fiction, not a conceptual...
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Justice and Guilt: Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
A strong affinity between literature and law was a paramount theme in the 1990s. After that its prevalence flattened. But still there are some...
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Analytical vs. Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia
It was almost a century ago that a double polarity emerged in the Russian episteme, and in particular in the theory of art and literature. The...
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“This Counter History”: Teju Cole’s Pandemic Visual Diary on the Kitchen as a Domestic Postcolonial Medi[t]ation
During the first pandemic year, 2020, contemporary Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole spent a week prior to the American...
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The Economies of Theory and Resistance
Although contemporary theory reflects upon and registers the achievement of thinking literature and its related disciplines, that theory also ponders...
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Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato’s Seventh Letter, 344c
The paper describes and contextualizes the scene of thinking in Jean-Luc Nancy's Le poids d’une pensée, l’approche (2008) and Pascal Quignard’s...
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Studying Literary Multilingualism, Revisiting National Philology: Post-Imperial East-Central European Literature as a Testing Ground
This chapter discusses recent theoretical attempts to redefine national philology through a focus on literary multilingualism, by looking at them...