Virginia Woolfs Microgenesis analyses Virginia Woolfs novels through her own methodological approach to mind, to meaning, and to making whole. This volume argues that Woolfs preoccupation with the metaphysics of wholeness, a dread, ind...Lasīt vairāk
Puzzling Modernism in Twentieth-Century Literature identifies a sustained interest in puzzles, such as the jigsaw and Fifteen Puzzle, dating back to the 1880s in the United States, and argues that puzzles appealed to modernist authors because they o...Lasīt vairāk
An Analysis of Chinese Literature in the New Era serves as an essential window for international audiences to understand the rapid development of China over more than three decades and offers a critical interpretation of Chinese literature...Lasīt vairāk
Durée as Einstein-In-The-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (1882 1941) and Mary Butts (1890 1937)....Lasīt vairāk
Owen Barfield influenced a diverse range of writers that includes T. S. Eliot, J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Howard Nemerov, and Saul Bellow, and Owen Barfields Poetry, Drama, and Fiction is the first book to comprehensively explore and...Lasīt vairāk
Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk reveals how by embracing the idea that an individual subject and history mutually shape identities as formative processes, James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk create portraits adapting bildung to chart the becoming of the...Lasīt vairāk
This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already-existing history, both in reality and in the ficti...Lasīt vairāk
Enric Valor (1911-2000) is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This third selection of his highly popular rondalles (folktales) will complete the publication of his folktales in English translation. Enri...Lasīt vairāk
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulmans AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist....Lasīt vairāk
Katherine Mansfield and Germany focuses on an under-researched yet crucially important aspect of Mansfields life and art, her encounter with Germany and all things German: language, culture, society. ...Lasīt vairāk
Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures examines the place of classical music in early 20th-century Japanese and Hebrew literatures. As this book shows, both Japanese and Hebrew writers of the period made use of Western classical mu...Lasīt vairāk
Enric Valor (19112000) is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. He has been, until now, almost completely unknown to an English-speaking audience. Following the publication of Valencian Folktales (2023), this sec...Lasīt vairāk
In Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and literary discourses is explored through the lens of H.P. Lovecrafts weird fiction. In Reading Lovecraft in th...Lasīt vairāk
Warrior-Writers of World War II delivers a thorough study of key American writers who experienced combat in World War II in the European or Pacific Theater, survived, and returned home to become famous writers. This volume explores the works of sixt...Lasīt vairāk
This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology and theology, and aims at providing a systematic approach to the strategic production and perception of ambiguity in a variety of texts and...Lasīt vairāk
Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equalitys supposed friends on the left of attenuating this world-redefining relationship into a collection of rights and goods to distri...Lasīt vairāk
Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. Using the metaphor and the critical lens of looking back, an act infused with feminist implicat...Lasīt vairāk
