The Horn of Africa and Italy

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 6
• This multidisciplinary volume analyses key cultural themes in colonial, postcolonial and transnational encounters between Italy and its former colonie... Lees meer

Towards a Posthuman Imagination in Literature and Media

Simona Micali

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 7
• This book explores the rich variety of non-human figures in contemporary science fiction literature and film and considers what these figures tell us ... Lees meer

The Migrant's Corner

Caterina Scarabicchi

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 12
• The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. This book consi... Lees meer

Solace in Oblivion

Robert Cowan

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 9
• We live in an era of global anxiety, so it's no surprise that we also seek transcendence of our material circumstances. This book explores the immanen... Lees meer

Reaching Athens

Margherita Laera

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 1
• This book analyses discourses around community, democracy, origin and Western identity in stage adaptations of Greek tragedy. It addresses the ways in... Lees meer

The Good Place

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 2
• Utopian literature provides a compelling vision of epistemological and moral clarity: a dream of harmony and justice. But in an age of surveillance, u... Lees meer

The Conflict Revisited

Marco Malvestio

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 10
• This book outlines a new literary form called post-postmodernism, which abandons the ironic approach of postmodernism while also retaining some postmo... Lees meer

Politics of Cross-Cultural Reading

Marion Dalvai

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 3
• With particular attention to the ambivalent position of English as a roadblock to international visibility and as a necessary intermediary for other l... Lees meer

Narrating the Passions

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 5
• The passions are at the heart of human experience. Literature captures the complexity of the passions more acutely than the generalizations of theory.... Lees meer

Comparative Becomings

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 4
• This volume reflects how the field of comparative literary scholarship and study is itself faced with the reality of transition : the included contrib... Lees meer

Decolonizing the Literary Imagination

Ambra Guarnieri

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 13
• 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 auth... Lees meer

Thinking Through Relation

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 11
• These essays by leading scholars examine the power of serendipitous encounter between artists, thinkers and artistic media as well as the importance o... Lees meer

The Caribbean in Translation

Laëtitia Saint-Loubert

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Criticism | nr. 8
• This book investigates twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean literatures in translation. Covering English-, French- and Spanish-language texts... Lees meer