This book provides an analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their contributions to the Swahili literary tradition. Grounded throughout in the historical and socio-political contexts of the authors it discusse...More info...
This book explores the conceptualizations of female power through the notion of matriarchy in a variety of historical, cultural and epistemological contexts....More info...
Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britains most important play-wrights and her four-decade long career chronicling the lives of Black people, and Black women in particular, in Britain....More info...
Victorian Womens Travel Narratives and the Female-Capitalist Gaze argues that female travellers both informed and expanded upon Victorian debates surrounding the role of art, and art production, as a nexus of political-economic progress and cultura...More info...
Over the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision. Don DeLillo and the Visual offers a fresh perspective on the lead writer for the Age of the Image....More info...
This book will help educators to define videogames in a literary context, gives an overview of their history, and the current state of the industry, while also providing critical discussions of videogame theory....More info...
Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century draws on archival research in the New Yorker Records to uncover the contractual details of the first-reading agreement, The New Yorkers fat payments, and Irish writers relationships with...More info...
Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate corresponding situations in different geographical regions....More info...
This book investigates the nature of home and nation in post-imperial British novels, which deal with the loss of Empire and its uncanny presence at home....More info...
This volume offers a philosophical and literary exploration of Dostoevskys humanism, with a particular focus on his ethical and aesthetic reflections on human nature....More info...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Diamela Eltits recent novels, highlighting how her experimental narratives engage with Chiles evolving social and political landscape....More info...
This book is the first sustained analysis of travel narratives from one of the most important US writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....More info...
First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world. Volume Four focuses on Modern criticism....More info...
This companion is the first comprehensive study of courier poetryin which someone, usually a lonely lover, sends an unlikely messenger (a cloud, a bee, a goose, a bat, a language, the wind, a poem, and so on) to the beloved or to a close friend or p...More info...
Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media across several centuries....More info...
This monograph explores selected texts by four major American authors: Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sojourner Truth, and Kate Chopin. While they critique organized religion and challenge the premise of doctrine and the restrictiveness of relig...More info...
Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire....More info...
Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeares theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural bias towards leadership models to reconsider possibilities of working in a non-hierarchical and inclusive creative theatrical pract...More info...
In Folklore and Ethnology of the Modern World, Simon Bronner identifies cultural engagements that people use to reconcile tradition and modernity, and confront the anxieties of the present by bringing together the past, often represented by traditio...More info...
