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The Qualified Medium of Computer Games: Form and Matter, Technology, and Use
This chapter considers computer games as a qualified medium situated in an intermedial network of other qualified, technical media and media...
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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...
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Palimpsestuous Holmes
The malleability of Sherlock Holmes is immense and undeniably impressive. He adjusts perfectly to the changing times, media, and readerly...
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Sándor Petőfi from the Perspective of Modern China—The Chinese Translation of His Epigram
If literary translation is considered to be a particular kind of writing, the significance of translated works may reflect certain literary and...
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Max und Moritz Across Media
When Wilhelm Busch created the picture story Max und Moritz (1865) by transforming the cautionary tale of bad boys into a story of boy’s pranks, it...
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Crime for a Higher Cause: The Baader Meinhof Complex and The Left Wing Gang
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the politics of narrating the ultra-radical legacy from 1968. The juxtaposition of the German film The...
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Poe’s “Berenice” in Popular Culture: Contemporary (Audio)visual Representations in Spain
In the most literal sense of the word, Poe’s “Berenice” (Southern Literary Messenger, 1835) has been hailed as a masterpiece worldwide. This chapter...
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The Aleph and the space of Shakespeare Carla Della Gatta
In this article, I use the work of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges as a heuristic for engaging with Shakespeare and challenging established...
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A Departure from Modernism: Stylistic Strategies in Modern Peripheral Literatures as Symptom, Mediation and Critique of Modernity
Starting from a poignant survey of the most important recent critical reappraisals of Modernism which broadened its formation and its temporalities...
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Texts on Travel: Stability Across Variation and Secondary Authorship in Espionage Shouchaoben Fiction
This chapter focuses on three exemplary pieces of stories by anonymous authors: The Plum Blossom Case, A Strand of Golden Hair and Three Times to...
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The Different Reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz, Julius Fučík and Bertolt Brecht in China
In the twentieth century, Poland was a major Eastern European country in terms of its literature and was held in high regard in China both for its...
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A Wicked Facility in Quotation: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Allusions
This chapter explores Dorothy L. Sayers’ allusions to Shakespeare and the Bible in her detective fiction. It argues that the general anxiety over...
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Identifying the People of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Scholarship has primarily concentrated on identifying the sectarian movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls with a specific group known from ancient...
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Tragic Theatricality: Vulnerability and Rights in Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiography of a Slave and Zafira
This chapter presents an analysis of the only Spanish autobiography written by a slave, namely, Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiografía de un esclavo...
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Mobility and Autonomy: Chopin’s Women Characters Around Town
This chapter extends the discussion of women’s urban mobility as we turn to three exemplary Chopin stories that feature women who travel from the...
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Al-Tawḥīdī, Fictionality, and the Mediatedness of Narrative
This essay explores the theorizations concerning narrative representations of the past in the Kitāb al-Imtāʿ wa-l-Muʾānasa of Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī...
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The Female Conquistador: Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul
Inés of my Soul by the internationally successful novelist Isabel Allende tells the story of the first European woman to travel to Chile. Inés takes...
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The Heavens Squared by a Line: Legal Architecture and Mystery
This chapter explores Blake’s work of 1795–1808, a period during which he was develo** an epic contextualisation of the individual stories...
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At a Slight Angle to the British Empire
Cavafy’s connection to the British Empire has mainly been tackled with reference to the poet’s biographical situation and social standing or as...
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Emotionalisation Between Sexuality, Generational Conflict, and Discourse on Power
A 19-year-old shoots his sister’s boyfriend and then himself. A classmate of the suicidal murderer is accused of complicity, spends eight months in...