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On Beowulf and Ruodlieb: a folkloric context for Hrothgar’s Sermon
Though rarely compared, Beowulf and Ruodlieb are two medieval epics composed by speakers of West Germanic languages that exhibit a shared sequence of...
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Communal Pleasure in Jean Rhys’s Fiction
Laura Frost’s The problem with pleasure: Modernism and its discontents has blazed a new trail and annexed the concept of pleasure to the notion of...
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Remembering and forgetting in Sara Collins’ The confessions of Frannie Langton
Set in Jamaica and London in the 1820s, Sara Collins’ debut novel The confessions of Frannie Langton (2019) is a neo-slave historical novel par...
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Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels
As an almost exclusively female-dominated medium, the popular romance novel has, throughout its history, allowed women writers to “amplify their...
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Adventure and contingency in literary theory
The relation between adventure and contingency is an ambivalent one. This ambivalence can be described by using a distinction of two aspects already...
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The pause button on ecophobia: reflections on Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, fifty years in
One of the reasons that Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek remains very important to the environmental issues we face, even fifty years after...
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Evolutionary emotion of AI and subjectivity construction in The Windup Girl
Artificial intelligence (AI) is man-made with the purpose of serving humans. An emotional machine is designed to meet the demands of human emotion....
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Masochism, literature, and aesthetic form
Drawing inspiration from Gilles Deleuze’s conceptualization of masochism as an obsession with a perfect form, this essay argues that masochism offers...
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History and Speculative Fiction
This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in...
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Music, Words, and Nationalism National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era
Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Eraconsiders the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and...
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Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec Ways of Belonging
This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary...
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Re-Reading Tragic Africa Development, Neoliberalism and Contemporary Fiction
Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of ‘tragedy’ in relation to global narratives about...
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Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema
Time Travel in World Literature and Cinemadiscusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter...
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Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods
Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoodsexplores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the...
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Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro
This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It analyses the Japanese-born British...
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Geist und Buchstabe Ein neuer Versuch über Friedrich Schlegels Konzept der Universalpoesie
Das vorliegende Buch ist ein neuer, komparatistisch angelegter Versuch über Friedrich Schlegels Konzept der ‚Universalpoesie‘. Dieser Kernbegriff der...
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The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations
This book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions of grief and melancholy in...
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Economic Informality and World Literature
This book analyses the impact of economic informality on the novel form across the modern world-system, looking specifically at works by Antonio de...
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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...