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This book examines a selection of prison memoirs by five renowned African writers: Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ruth First, Wole Soyinka, Nawal El Saadawi and Jack Mapanje. Detained across the continent from ……続きを見る

This book examines poetic interpretations of the life and works of the American Modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe. It shows how these poems have interpreted, de-codified and translated O’Keeffe’s s……続きを見る

Winner of the Roland Mathias Award 2009. This book argues that the way in which people came to perceive and to represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideologies prevalen……続きを見る

The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of interest by no means confined to literary studies. The Darwin Anniversary celebr……続きを見る

In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil. Their works shaped Br……続きを見る

What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and d……続きを見る

Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black prot……続きを見る

This edited collection examines Gothic works written by women authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a specific focus on the novels and chapbooks produced by less widely……続きを見る

«A piercing critique of imperial culture and climate doomism. Alberro’s Terrestrial Ecotopias is a compelling and penetrating corrective, sketching an ecology of hope beyond the Capitalocene.» (Jaso……続きを見る

Dans l’après-guerre comme dans les années 80, la recrudescence des mythes grecs et latins dans une trentaine de romans de langue allemande entraîne un jeu passionnant de narration et de réécriture. ……続きを見る

«This book offers an excellent gathering of research and perspectives, creating an innovative polyhedron to approach both the traditional and the new realities of the Galician stage. Indispensable n……続きを見る

Runner-up in the 2023 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature from the Electronic Literature Organization «At last, here is a book written by an Italian about the homeopathi……続きを見る

Queer theory, queer literary criticism and queer cultural criticism often focus on western, white, cis men. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary queer and Gothic texts that……続きを見る

A travers les œuvres d’auteures francophones camerounaises – Lydie Dooh Bunya, Delphine Zanga-Tsogo, Calixthe Beyala, Léonora Miano, Hemley Boum et Djaïli Amadou Amal – ce volume explore une littéra……続きを見る

«This relevant, clearly defined study isn’t constricted by its primary focus on late nineteenth-century American utopias, written when inequality flourished. Morris enriches this focus with chronolo……続きを見る

«Politic Words is an invigorating mix of the personal, the political and the poetic. Gerry Dawe flings his net wide. From Eavan Boland’s ‘secret history’ of women to war memoirist Christabel Bielenb……続きを見る

El presente volumen trata de averiguar si las adaptaciones de obras literarias contemporáneas a formatos audiovisuales en el siglo XXI reactualizan algunos roles de la mujer en la sociedad e integra……続きを見る

This study aims to uncover the traces of the celebrated Sweeney legend in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Austin Clarke, Derek Mahon, Tom Mac Intyr……続きを見る

Las diferentes contribuciones que componen el presente volumen suponen un homenaje al profesor Luis Á. Acosta Gómez, un reconocimiento a su brillante carrera profesional y a la relevancia de sus apo……続きを見る

This book presents a renewed consideration of women’s poetry in ancient Greek literature by offering a detailed analysis of the works attributed to female poets from the Hellenistic era. These scarc……続きを見る

Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism starts from the premise that the literary-cultural milieu we live in is characteristically hybrid. To develop that premise, the present volume focuses on explaini……続きを見る

«This is a new and scholarly study of William Michael Rossetti’s séance diary, which is a fascinating first-hand source for the Rossetti brothers in the 1860s and offers a new perspective on the rel……続きを見る

We live in an era of global anxiety – about rising nationalism, civil and human rights struggles, the ramifications of declining white male hegemony, about driving ourselves and other species toward……続きを見る

The French literary collective OuLiPo was founded in 1960 with the goal of applying mathematics to literary creation. Comprised of authors, poets, mathematicians, and scientists, this quirky writer’……続きを見る

This volume offers an important examination of the ways in which artistic manipulations of time can lead to a different perception of time as nonsynchronous and anti-chronological. The range of medi……続きを見る

Ce volume rassemble les actes d’un colloque qui s’est tenu à l’université de Bretagne occidentale (Brest). La publication des lettres adressées par Nathalie Sarraute, lors de son premier séjour en A……続きを見る

Second volet du diptyque consacré à des écritures féminines dans cette collection, ce volume s’attache à des auteures francophones venues d’horizons géographiques divers – Maghreb, Liban,Argentine, ……続きを見る

Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gen……続きを見る

Though Julia Wedgwood is still remembered as a commentator on the work of her uncle, Charles Darwin, and for her brief but intense friendship with Browning, her contemporary standing as a writer (“t……続きを見る

«The authors in this inspiring volume focus on the socially transformative potential narrative has to shape understandings of albinism in Africa. Scholars and activists, they reflect on how traditio……続きを見る