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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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Nezamian Pictorial Allegory in Layli o Majnun
In this chapter, I focus on the story of Layli O Majnun to elucidate the sophisticated aspects of Nezami’s allegorical poetry, which I conceptualize...
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When the Post-Truth Devil Hides in the Details: A Digital Ethnography of Virtual Anti-Vaccination Groups in Lithuania
The main aim of this article is to understand how anti-vaccination communities on social media platforms can shape and rationalise their perception...
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“We’ve Been There, and We Made It Through”: Representations of Family Resilience in Contemporary Malaysian Youth Literature and Film
The mental health of children and adolescents is among the most neglected health issues globally, and Malaysian youth face similar challenges due to...
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Subverting a Universally and Culturally Biased Shakespeare
This chapter suggests that while Shakespeare’s cultural significance, educational value, and national heritage make a strong case for his inclusion...
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Virginia Woolf and Debora Vogel: A Season of Fragments
The chapter considers relational impulses stirring so powerfully the essayistic imagination of Virginia Woolf and the non-fictional writing of Debora...
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Where is my Eye? Gendered Cyborgs, the Male Gaze, and Lack in La primera calle de la soledad [The First Street of Solitude] and “Esferas de visión” [“Spheres of Vision”]
Gerardo Porcayo’s specular fictions of La primera calle de la soledad (1993) and its accompanying short story “Esferas de visión” (1997) present...
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A Name: Heloise, Philosophess and Prostitute
The story of Abelard and Heloise may be a familiar one, but there are new ways to view their experience, here through a microhistorical investigation...
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Process Essay. ‘A Feather on the breath of God’: Medieval legacies in modern choreography
This article is a reflection on and analysis of my working process as a scholar-artist, based on my experience choreographing and performing ‘Cosmic...
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Toward a Global Philology
In his late essay “Philologie der Weltliteratur” (1952), Erich Auerbach warned of the danger that in the coming era of global English, “the idea of...
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Monstrous Genealogies: Indo-Caribbean Feminist Reckonings with the Violent Past
This chapter explores the ways in which three contemporary Indo-Caribbean women writers trouble traditional understandings of teleology, genealogy,...
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A monstrous king and a forged prophecy: Parody, invention, and social hierarchy in the Kushnāmeh
The title character of the early twelfth-century Persian Kushnāmeh ( Epic of Kush ), written by Irānshāh ebn Abu al-Khayr, is an anti-hero—the...
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From Underground into the Mainstream: Shouchaoben Fiction on the Commercial Book Market
This chapter extends the discussion of manuscript entertainment fiction into the early reform era by tracing the rewritings and cross-genre and...
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‘A beginning for them all’: The medieval pluriverse of Gloria Naylor’s ‘Sapphira Wade’
This essay argues that Gloria Naylor’s (1950-2016) unpublished and unfinished novel, ‘Sapphira Wade’ (2006a), marks a significant shift in the...
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The rhetoric of factuality and fictionality in Julian Barnes’s the noise of Time and the Man in the Red Coat
This article deploys a rhetorical approach to fictionality and factuality to analyze how Julian Barnes builds the portraits of real individuals...
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Acceleration
Acceleration corresponds to epi- in the sense of duration. The energetic vividness of literature seeks to confront the “acceleration” of history...
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Translating China for the Gazing Eyes—A Case Study of the Battle at Lake Chang**
Despite Sino-West conflicts have inflicted grief and melancholy to the extent that China’s modern history is entitled as the history of Shame (Zhang...
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Storytelling for a republic of childhood: rebranding China’s national images in children’s literature
This article delineates the discursive trajectory of Chinese children’s literature and explicates its specific storytelling strategies to integrate...
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Humour and Britishness During the Great War: ‘If a man brings us a joke, we require to be satisfied of its durability’
Humorousness had become associated with Britishness before 1914, and during the Great War the ability to maintain a sense of humour was portrayed in...
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Point of view in Alice Munro's “Runaway”: A cognitive study
This study concerns itself with Joanna Gavins's text world theory (Gavins, Text world theory: An introduction, Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and...