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The Carp Fairy in the Digitalised Traditional Chinese Theatre
In the era of new media, digital technologies present an unprecedented challenge to the survival of traditional Chinese theatre (xiqu 戏曲) due to the...
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The Anchor and the Dolphin: A History of Emblems
This chapter explores the history of emblems, which appear on a broad spectrum between printed literature, visual art, and material culture. Starting...
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The Anchor and the Dolphin: A History of Emblems
This chapter explores the history of emblems, which appear on a broad spectrum between printed literature, visual art, and material culture. Starting...
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Fidelity and Innovation: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Neverwhere Megatext
Neverwhere presents a very interesting case study in transmediality since it started off as a television series; it was expanded into a novel that...
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To Cut a Long Story Short: The Sha** of Mary Lavin’s New Yorker Stories
Gráinne Hurley explores the creative processes of the Irish short story writer, Mary Lavin, as revealed through the close examination of her drafts,...
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The Hateful Narcissism of Allie Brosh in Hyperbole and a Half (2013)
Since the late 1960s and the rise of independent comics in the United States, graphic narratives of the self have flourished, and the medium has...
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The Making of a Monumental Edition: The Holy Bible…The Earliest English Versions Made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wyclif and His Followers
The only complete edition of the first English translation of the complete Bible was published in 1850 by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden: they...
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‘This world is like a water-wheel’: Alexander and Darius in the mirror
This article examines 30 kafa s (short, monorhymed poems) about Alexander the Great and Darius III in a sixteenth-century Armenian manuscript. The...
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The Kinder- und Hausmärchen as a ‘palimpsest’: Forms of the History of Origin and Transformation
Based on eight model stories from the Kinder- und Hausmärchen, the various forms of the origin and transformation story of the Grimm’s fairy tales...
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Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes (1963): From Novel to Screenplay
This chapter analyzes in detail Planet of the Apes (1963) by Pierre Boulle; the novel tells the story of a reverse world where apes, not humans, rule...
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Case Studies as a Heuristic of Intermediality
While it recognizes that there does not currently exist a generally accepted, unifying theory of intermediality, this chapter aims to shed light on...
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Meaning and Interpretation: The Failure of the Psychiatric Method in Asylum by Patrick McGrath
In the history of British writings about psychiatry, McGrath’s novels are another landmark that has surprisingly led to very little critical interest...
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Double Memories: Multiple Versions of Memories as a Way to Understand Characters and Ourselves
This chapter examines the connection between storytelling and memory in recent and contemporary novels, and how stories told in multiple versions...
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Cabinets of Curiosities as a Transhistorical and Intermedial Phenomenon
Cabinets of curiosities are considered to be a projection of one’s thinking about oneself, one’s origin, and one’s place in the world. The variety of...
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Locating Statelessness: The Multiple Forms of Anarchist Utopia in B. Traven’s The Death Ship
The central paradox of anarchist political theory is that any utopian vision of a community organizing itself on anarchist principles is...
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Getting a Return on Investment in Shakespeare
This essay discusses a successful pedagogical strategy of reframing Shakespeare as “data” for study by non-majors and then follows this notion...
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Satire and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf’s Flush: A Biography
Virginia Woolf’s bestseller Flush: A Biography (1933)—the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel—has only recently received proper critical...
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It’s a Real Nowhere Map: Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City
This entry deals with urban literature of resistance to dictatorship written to elude censorship and reach a readership without having to be...
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A Border Poetics of Migration: Five Map**s of Migration Literature in Norwegian and Swedish
Borders and border-crossings of different kinds are central to narratives of migration. This chapter uses examples from Norwegian and...
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A Modernist Theatrum Mundi: Orson Welles and the Theater of Attractions
In 1938, 1946, and 1955, Orson Welles mounted three versions of Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, first as a radio show, then as a Broadway...