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Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory
Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theoryseeks to place the contemporary transformation of notions of space and time, often attributed to the...
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Jameson and Literature The Novel, History, and Contemporary Reading Practices
This book demonstrates how Fredric Jameson’s understanding of the novel form has heavily influenced his work as a critical theorist. It contends that...
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London Fiction at the Millennium Beyond Postmodernism
This book analyses London fiction at the millennium, reading it in relation to an exploration of a theoretical positioning beyond the postmodern. It...
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The Five Senses in Nabokov's Works
This collection of essays focuses on a subject largely neglected in Nabokovian criticism—the importance and significance of the five senses in...
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The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author
This book not only discloses and examines different functions and concepts of authorship in fiction and theory from the 1950s and 1960s to the...
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Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century
This book presents a definition of literary postmodernism, using detective and science fictions as a frame. Through an exploration of both prior...
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The End of Literature, Hegel, and the Contemporary Novel
This book explores the concept of the end of literature through the lens of Hegel's philosophy of art. In his version of Hegel's 'end of art'...
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Are We Postmodern Yet? And Were We Ever?
In this book, Reinhold Kramer explores a variety of important social changes, including the resistance to objective measures of truth, the rise of...
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Heidegger with Derrida Being Written
Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written attempts, for the first time, to think Heidegger's philosophy through the lens of Derrida's logocentric thesis,...
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Multiple Narratives, Versions and Truth in the Contemporary Novel
Multiple Narratives, Versions and Truth in the Contemporary Novelconsiders the shifting perception of truth in fiction. Nicholas Frangipane examines...
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Behind the Frontiers of the Real A Definition of the Fantastic
This book offers a definition of the fantastic that establishes it as a discourse in constant intertextual relation with the construct of reality. In...
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Beckett's Intuitive Spectator Me to Play
Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Playinvestigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial...
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Borges, Language and Reality The Transcendence of the Word
This book brings together the work of several scholars to shed light on the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges' complex relationship with language...
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Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism Stranger than Fact
This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In...
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Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures
Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as “decolonial” and “coloniality” to question...
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Postcolonial Literary Geographies Out of Place
This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which...
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From Wall Street to Main Street Tracing the Shadows of the Financial Crisis from 2007 to 2009 in US-American Fiction
Since the financial crisis cannot be explained by looking at the ‘numbers’ alone, Judith Schulz investigates the diverse facets of the economic...
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The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature
This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing for its relevance to...
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Contemporary World Narrative Fiction and the Spaces of Neoliberalism
This book is a transnational study of how contemporary fiction writers from the United States and Canada to Nigeria to India to Dubai have...
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Reading Modernism with Machines Digital Humanities and Modernist Literature
This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of...
