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In the last decade, critical Germanophone cultural productions have led a feminist and/or queer resistance against the rise of conservative politics. Embodied Realities offers an overview of recent queer, feminist, and intersectional debates across literature, film,...
A deft, masterful study of the life and work of Jean Sulivan. Maher makes a compelling case for the continuing importance of Sulivan’s writings in challenging times and illuminates crucial and often neglected intersections between faith and fiction.A book to cherish. —...
This book offers a queer reading of the oeuvre of Sicilian director Emma Dante, winner of the 2026 Theatre Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. It contextualises Dante’s work within the longstanding anti-meridionalist North–South binary that has dogged Italy history and...
'In a world where the complexity of our cultural and everyday encounters far exceeds the narrow confines of accepted political identity and debate, the concept of transculturality is an absolute necessity. The editor has convened an exciting range of authors to explore...
"This excellent volume—the first book-length study in English on Despentes’s writing—is rich, timely and insightful. Schaal’s rigorous analysis contextualises Despentes’s work carefully in relation to contemporary writing and thought, highlighting its intersections with...
The Holocaust, one of history’s darkest chapters, not only annihilated millions but also shattered the human conscience. Amidst this devastation, women bore unique and often overlooked forms of suffering—subjected to forced deportation, sexual violence, and the...
‘A true Caribbeanist, James Arnold has long been a vital critical presence. These essays bear testimony to a remarkable career and to the hallmarks of Arnold’s scholarship: its extraordinary erudition; and the subtle but determined anticolonialism that motivates the...
‘Making original use of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "minor literature" and its power to shift boundaries and enable new forms of becoming, Roberto Binetti reads the work of Italian women poets who transform the contours of lyric poetry and its political valencies....
“Writing Now offers razor sharp historicisation of contemporary cultural sensibilities emerging in Australia’s middlebrow fiction. Lucidly written, meticulously researched and carefully argued, Ricker’s book provides essential guidance to students and scholars in the...
Violence is one of the most persistently repeated subjects in various discourses from the beginning of the twentieth century, and it has led to serious ontological disquisitions. When it comes to the treatment of violence in drama, there has never been anyone more...
This book explores the «postcolonial modern» across South Asian literatures and cultures, while demonstrating that postcoloniality is an ongoing lived experience and that modernity has always been a many-voiced historical reality. It contends that our realities and our...
«This edition is the fruit of Professor Matsumoto’s lifelong devotion to the study of the story of Troy in the Middle Ages, beginning with his edition of the major alliterative poem The Destruction of Troy by John Clerk. As well as articles on the subject, Professor...
Women writers offer us rich and diverse perspectives on exile, yet they remain relatively unexplored in the scholarship. This book aims to address this omission by illuminating the life and work of four German-speaking writers exiled in Britain after 1933. Gerda Mayer,...
Written in response to a brutal ethnic conflict that shocked Europeans in the 1990s, post-Yugoslav literature addresses issues that are still pertinent today. Looking at questions of language, gender, memory and identity, this book sheds new light on texts by three...
In the spring of 1928, the coal miner’s daughter Erna Halbe leaves her provincial hometown for Berlin, where she takes an office job. Her new colleagues laugh at her unfashionable clothes and dub her «The Girl at the Orga Privat» when she is given an old typewriter of...
Paul-Louis Courier (1772–1825), after being a comparatively discreet critic of Napoleon in his letters, became a scourge of the Restoration Establishment, both secular and clerical, in pamphlets which he published from 1816 onwards. His writings were incendiary enough...
What do we mean by ‘dialogue’?What can the use of dialogue tell us about a text, its author, and the larger cultural or political climate of the author’s production? This book examines the notion of dialogue adapted from the work of Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin,...
«An admirable undertaking, as impressive for its scholarship as its sympathy. Heaney is presented here at the centre of a worldwide network of correspondents, and what emerges is a vivid sense of both the great writer and the living man.» (Seamus Perry, Fellow of...
«Bold and engaging, a well-researched look at how clothes can simultaneously reveal and conceal.» (Victoria Bateman, author of Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty) Do you sometimes look at yourself and think, «I can’t wear this without a bra – my nipples...
«In "Post-2000 Poetry of Dissent," Dr Abha Prakash’s student-focussed explication of poems proceeds comparatively, identifying ways in which pairs of poems from the A-level syllabus address thematically similar phenomena or ideas while the poems’ uniquenesses are thus...
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