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Unicorn Variations: Continuity and Change in the Many Versions of The Last Unicorn
This chapter first examines the 1962 first draft of Beagle’s novel, and demonstrates how some of the author’s concerns and themes appear with...
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Simple Story, A by Elizabeth Inchbald
A Simple Story (1791), a novel in four volumes, fuses the sentimental fiction of the earlier eighteenth century with the Gothic novel of the 1790s....
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In the skin of a donkey: On the moral status of animals of burden in two medieval Spanish versions of ‘The Miller, his Son and the Donkey’
Despite a growing interest in the critical study of animals in medieval literary texts, fables have been neglected due to the belief that they do not...
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“An Occasionally True Story”: Biofiction, Authenticity and Fictionality in The Great (2020)
Contemporary visual and literary culture has seen a proliferation of quasi-biographical texts that blur the lines between fact and fiction and often...
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Memory Hacking: Remembering, Storytelling, and Unreliable Narrators in Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending and The Only Story
In his 2011 NPR interview, BarnesBarnes, Julian questions the reliability of memory: “Is our life our life or is it merely the story we’ve told...
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The Hidden Ghost Story: Ishiguro, Ugetsu and Troubled English Belief
Anni Shen discusses the motif of Japanese ghosts from a perspective that differs from that of Kato. Whereas Yasujiro Ozu’s and Akira Kurosawa’s...
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C. H. Sisson in Exile, or, Versions and Perversions of Ovid’s Tristia
C. H. Sisson strongly identifies with Augustan poets such as Horace, Vergil, and Ovid in his translations of their works, and certain poems reflect...
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From Great Muslim Heroes to Good Christian Subjects: Converting the Legend of the Seven Infantes of Lara
The inclusion of the legend of the infantes of Lara in the thirteenth-century Estoria de España unsettles some of the chronicle’s ideological...
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A Story in Pictures: A.E.W. Mason’s Film Writing
A.E.W. Mason (1865–1948) is probably best known now as the author of The Four Feathers (1902) a story of courage conquering fear, duty, redemption...
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In Search of Religion and Dantean Moments in “The Story of Mahan”
Thus far, I have supported my arguments about the subjects, themes, and motifs in Nezami’s poetry by comparing them with other Persian poets and...
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Rewriting the wild: Fiction, adab, and the making of Majnun’s animal world
This article compares Arabic and Persian versions of the love-story of Layla and Majnun. I analyse Majnun’s relations with animals in the accounts of...
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Evangeline’s Revisioning: Reading Ben Farmer’s Post-9/11 Evangeline: A Novel
This chapter examines Ben Farmer’s Evangeline: A Novel (2010), which rewrites Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie...
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Walking and Making: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Our Creative Recoveries
This chapter is a collaborative autoethnography that explores the authors’ search for a new way of being in their creative practice to help them move...
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German Internment Camps in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land
This chapter pairs P.S. Duffy’s fictional portrayal of Avon Heist, a German-born Canadian citizen and schoolteacher who is placed in an internment...
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The Missionary Position: The American Roots of Northrop Frye’s Peaceable Kingdom
This chapter lays the foundation for the rest of this study in probing how Canada relies on specific American traditions to create the basis for a...
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To the Moon and Back
Peterchens Mondfahrt (Little Peter’s Journey to the Moon/Peter and Anneli’s Journey to the Moon/Peter in Magicland) is one of the most popular German...
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Storied Road: Ambivalence in the Landscape of American Automobility
This introduction to the larger study of early American road narrative draws on an array of archival material to map and theorize the emergence of...
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Biofiction and the Neo-Victorian Crime Novel: The Case of the Brontës
Neo-Victorian biofiction self-reflexively appropriates the Victorian past, transforming it freely into a story fitting the current cultural milieu....
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A Precarious Vision: Hallucination and the Short Story in Post-War Britain
“Hallucination may be a new revelation of the real world”, Philip Toynbee intimated in January 1947. Toynbee embraced narratives that privileged a...
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Fiction as a Spider’s Web? Ananse and Gender in Karen Lord’s Speculative Folktale Redemption in Indigo
Karen Lord’s speculative folktale Redemption in Indigo (2010) engages the other-wordly or un-worldly to explore Caribbean social justice issues such...