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“You are the spawn of Cain!” Grendel’s mother’s literary appropriations
The paper is devoted to the study of three post-2000 novels appropriating Beowulf , whose common denominator is the amplification and humanization of...
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A generic mystery: Laura Purcell’s The shape of darkness
Laura Purcell’s 2021 novel The shape of darkness , advertised as a Gothic chiller, is set in Victorian Bath and tells two interlaced stories: one of a...
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Multiple-Author Miscellanies: From Community to Canon
This chapter focuses on the tradition of collections of poems by various authors that has dominated critical and bibliographical studies of...
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“The Refusal of Compassion”: Teaching The Merchant of Venice in a General Education Course
In this chapter, I explore the high-impact practices that work best with non-majors who enroll in my Shakespeare courses for a general education...
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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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Fragmentation and a Poetics of Location in The Farming of Bones and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Through a discussion of counter-memory in fiction by Haitian American and Dominican American writers Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz, this chapter...
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Vir-tue: Being a Man
This chapter explores how humans playing the ‘overgrown ape’ can be traced in plays for other companies—Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and...
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Bibliographical History of a Genre
Cohen notes here that the bibliographical history and the literary history are distinct. He indicates some of the numerous transformations the genres...
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Urian’s Travels Around the World
Hans Urian geht nach Brot is the title of a much-acclaimed Berlin children’s theatre premiere from 1929. The stage play deals with a hungry...
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Graphing VALA, or The Four Zoas: Toward a Dynamic Edition
From its title, Blake’s VALA, or The Four Zoas manuscript challenges editors with its complex revisions, its mix of textual and graphical materials,...
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When the Parents Play: A Deviant Family in the Face of Indonesian State Ibuism
The utilisation of literature, particularly children’s literature, as tool for governmental propaganda in Indonesia has deep historical roots dating...
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A Glass of Bordeaux with Crackers and Cigars. Translating Nick Carter for Europe (1905–1914)
At the beginning of the 20th century, the introduction into Europe of dime novels, an American form of popular fiction that had gained popularity...
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Alisa in a Futuristic Wonderland: Traveling Through Time and Space with a Girl from Tomorrow
Time traveling has always been a fascinating theme for science fiction writers. Their narratives varied due to the mental differences of their...
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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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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Ongoing, Hyperreal Saga of a Deadly Epidemic and Infodemic
This chapter examines the phenomenon of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy that has frustrated scientists around the world on the front lines battling the...
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Translating the Literature of Marginalized Nations and the Construction of a National Culture in the People’s Republic of China
The founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was the first time in history that China had been consolidated as a country of independence and...
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Fictionality as a Rhetorical Tool in Political Mockumentary Films: The Interplay of Fictionality and Factuality in C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
How can a mockumentary film like Kevin Willmott’s C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America argue effectively and authenticate its important message...
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‘The cold raw edge of one’s relinquished pages’: Reading Mrs Dalloway as a Palimpsest
In writing Mrs Dalloway, Woolf deployed an unusual writing strategy called her ‘quick change theory’ (D2, p. 189), which allowed her to negotiate her...
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“Be a Man”
The animation of (gendered) bodies has long been central to Disney’s style, but one specific Disney film puts gender and body at the forefront of its...
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“A Genealogy of Resistance” in Works by Inés María Martiatu Terry, Mayra Santos-Febres, and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
Through an analysis of literature by Cuban writer Inés María Martiatu Terry, and Puerto Rican writers Mayra Santos-Febres and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro,...