Engaging with recent research in literary multilingualism studies, the global anglophone and comparative studies, this book theorizes so-called post-monolingual anglophone novels. Inspired by Yasemin Yildizs Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonoli...Daugiau...
Cluttered Universes of Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Kantor is a collection of four essays bringing Kantors and Becketts texts, theatres, and theories into conversation with decon-struction, new materialism, environmental humanities, and posthumanism...Daugiau...
This monograph offers a detailed consideration of the five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin and translated into English as The Story of the Stone, when read through William Shakespeares drama Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A Tragedy in Fi...Daugiau...
This book investigates how contemporary novels by Knausgård, Smith, Sansal and Houellebecq reflect a profound shift from post-Cold War optimism to new narratives of uncertainty about the future. In doing so, these works explore the political discont...Daugiau...
It is a collection of 10 essays on the transcultural encounter between Bengal and Italy from the late 19 & 20th century. It explores the largely unknown features of a multifaceted dialogue in the fields of literature, music, architecture, art, cin...Daugiau...
The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who, enmeshed in the hierarchies of power inherited from their imperial times, strive to disentangle themselves from that burdensome legacy. To achieve this...Daugiau...
This book redefines modern Indian literature from a cosmopolitan comparative perspective inclusive of literature in English from India and the diaspora, in native languages, and works by non-Indians. Its aesthetic approach of modern classics as we...Daugiau...
Reclaiming Karbala studies the emergence and formation of a viable Muslim identity in Bengal over the late-nineteenth century and into the 1940s. Analysing an extensive range of texts and publications across multiple genres, forma...Daugiau...
This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism. This study adopts a design that interrogates literary works, data from questionnaires and social media to d...Daugiau...
This cross-disciplinary approach to literary reading of any provenance based on an experimental cosmopolitan epistemology de- and recontextualizes the texts from the points of view of multiple cultures and historical moments, enriching interpret...Daugiau...
The present book examines Williamss negotiation with cultural modes and systems of Chinese landscape tradition in his landscape writing. Focusing on Walliamss landscape modes of landscape with(without) infused emotions, the book builds a linkage...Daugiau...
This study in comparative literature contributes to the understanding of the myth of the artist as a European cultural construct and investigates the processes of personal mythmaking. The construction of romantic identity is studied in an interdiscip...Daugiau...
Women Writing Trauma in the Global South explores complex suffering in the work of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy while dismantling conceptual shortcomings underlying trauma theory. It develops new ideas for an inclusive conceptual e...Daugiau...
As a geo-historical place, the beach integrates a variety of characteristics and functions so multiple that they tend to contradict each other. The beach is both a place of work and trade but also of leisure; it is both a place of therapy and health...Daugiau...
This book embraces the blurred nature of epiphanies and sets out to explore their effects in a comparative journey paralleling Anglophone and Italian modernist short fiction. ...Daugiau...
This book offers a detailed consideration of the five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin and translated into English as The Story of the Stone, when read through William Shakespeares drama Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A Tragedy in five Acts. The book...Daugiau...
Transformative Fictions engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and peripheries, the formation of transnational literary and pedagogical canons, and the ro...Daugiau...
This is a transnational and bilingual investigation of the cross-fertilisation of mystical religiosity and modern poetical imagination in the works of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The book demonstrates how t...Daugiau...
The ten essays collected in this book manifest the current global interest for trans-border dialogues and trace the origins and development of Italian and Bengali internationalisms in the period from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. Despite h...Daugiau...
