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Dramatic Disgust – Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane
Aesthetic disgust is a key component of most classic works of drama because it has much more potential than to simply shock the audience. This first extensive study on dramatic …
Sounds of a New Generation – On Contemporary Jewish–American Literature
This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of …
Powerful Prose
What makes a reading experience "powerful"? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to elucidate the effects and reader responses to …
The Ghosts Within – Literary Imaginations of Asian America
The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas …
Epilepsy Metaphors – Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature, 1990–2015
Between 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and …
The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity – Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry
With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife …
The Transformative Potential of Black British an – Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation
This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British society by analysing representations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and the plantation in novels by …
Creating Communities – Towards a Description of the Mask–function in Literature
How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of …
Writing Emotions – Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature
After a long period of neglect, emotions have become an important topic within literary studies. This collection of essays stresses the complex link between aesthetic and …
Setting the Record Queer
"To define is to limit", Lord Henry states, and Mrs. Dalloway "would not say of anyone [...] that they were this or that". Why then are the respective novels mostly read - and in …
Wounds and Words
Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first …
From Post–Yugoslavia to Female Continent – Feminist Reading of Post–Yugoslav Literature
This study of contemporary literature from the former Yugoslavia (Post-Yugoslavia) follows the ways in which the feminist writing of gender, body, sexuality, and social and …