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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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Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf Spatiality and Cultural Politics
This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural...
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Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature
Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literatureprovides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and...
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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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Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn” A Critical Companion
This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, ...
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Chinese Science Fiction Concepts, Forms, and Histories
This volume brings together emerging approaches and addresses shifting paradigms in Chinese science fiction studies, offering a window on fan...
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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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Dante and His Circle Education, Script and Image
In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Florence, to place Dante's...
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Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives
Disability Identity in Simulation Narrativesconsiders the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from...
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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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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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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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Contradictory Muslims in the Literature of Medieval Iberian Christians
This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted...
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William Blake's Visions Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia
This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions...
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Theorizing Literature Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels – and Their Analysis
This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the...
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Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film
This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white...
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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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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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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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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,...
