Full text via SIS licenses Carl Thompson (Ed.) Shipwreck in Art and Literature Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day Abstract Bibliographic data Tales of shipwreck have always fascinated audiences, and as a result there is a rich literature of suffering at sea, and an equally rich tradition of visual art depicting this theme. Exploring the shifting...
Full text via SIS licenses Mark J. Bruhn / Donald R. Wehrs (Eds.) Cognition, Literature, and History Abstract Bibliographic data Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows how understanding of underlying structures of mind can productively inform literary analysis and historical...
Full text via SIS licenses Layla AbdelRahim Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness Abstract Bibliographic data This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road....
Full text via SIS licenses Miriam Wallraven Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches Abstract Bibliographic data Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century....
Full text via SIS licenses Lorna Fitzsimmons / Youngsuk Chae / Bella Adams (Eds.) Asian American Literature and the Environment Abstract Bibliographic data This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Extending and renewing Asian American studies and ecocriticism by drawing the two fields into deeper dialogue, it...
Full text via SIS licenses Alexandra Schultheis Moore Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture Abstract Bibliographic data This book responds to the failures of human rights—the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusions—through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can make visible human rights claims that...
Full text via SIS licenses Jochen Achilles / Ina Bergmann (Eds.) Liminality and the Short Story Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing Abstract Bibliographic data This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are...
Full text via SIS licenses Helen Young Race and Popular Fantasy Literature Habits of Whiteness Abstract Bibliographic data This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry,...
Full text via SIS licenses Basuli Deb Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture Abstract Bibliographic data This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book...
Full text via SIS licenses Guillermina De Ferrari Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba Abstract Bibliographic data Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture...
Full text via SIS licenses Ana María Fraile-Marcos (Ed.) Literature and the Glocal City Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary Abstract Bibliographic data The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits. This book makes an intervention in...
Full text via SIS licenses Michael D'Arcy / Mathias Nilges (Eds.) The Contemporaneity of Modernism Literature, Media, Culture Abstract Bibliographic data At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary...
Full text via SIS licenses Eóin Flannery Ireland and Ecocriticism Literature, History and Environmental Justice Abstract Bibliographic data This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and personalities in terms of contemporary ecological...
Full text via SIS licenses Justin D. Edwards (Ed.) Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture Technogothics Abstract Bibliographic data This volume, a collection with contributions from some of the major scholars of the Gothic in literature and culture, reflects on how recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of technologies associated with Gothic...
Full text via SIS licenses Elizabeth DeLoughrey / Jill Didur / Anthony Carrigan (Eds.) Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities Postcolonial Approaches Abstract Bibliographic data This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism...
Full text via SIS licenses Patricia Garcia Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature The Architectural Void Abstract Bibliographic data Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern...
Full text via SIS licenses Matthew Bush / Tania Gentic (Eds.) Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era Abstract Bibliographic data Grappling with the contemporary Latin American literary climate and its relationship to the pervasive technologies that shape global society, this bookvisits Latin American...
Full text via SIS licenses Casey Cothran / Mercy Cannon (Eds.) New Perspectives on Detective Fiction Mystery Magnified Abstract Bibliographic data This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes...
Full text via SIS licenses Jeffrey Clapp / Emily Ridge (Eds.) Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture Modern and Contemporary Perspectives Abstract Bibliographic data With contributions from an international array of scholars, this volume opens a dialogue between discourses of security and hospitality in modern and contemporary literature and culture. The...
Full text via SIS licenses David Aberbach National Poetry, Empires and War Abstract Bibliographic data Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put it, ‘From humanity via...
Full text via SIS licenses Gill Rye / Victoria Browne / Adalgisa Giorgio / Emily Jeremiah / Abigail Lee Six (Eds.) Motherhood in Literature and Culture Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe Abstract Bibliographic data Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural...
Full text via SIS licenses Michel Delville / Andrew Norris (Eds.) The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque Abstract Bibliographic data This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body’s heterogeneity...
Full text via SIS licenses Michael C. Frank The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film Narrating Terror Abstract Bibliographic data This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. Whenever mass-mediated...
Full text via SIS licenses Hanna Meretoja / Colin Davis (Eds.) Storytelling and Ethics Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative Abstract Bibliographic data In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not only literature and art but also our everyday lives as well as our...
Full text via SIS licenses Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno / Inés Ordiz (Eds.) Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture Abstract Bibliographic data This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone,...
