With this book on the literary work, which contains contributions from an international conference held at the University of Aarhus, weight is laid on…

This volume provides an invaluable overview of Walter Benjamin's writings about technology, history, politics and the visual. From a variety of theore…

The essays in this collection combine historical, cultural, and literary analyses in their treatment of aspects of exile in Irish writing. Some are 's…

What is the relationship between the British colonial project and English literature in India? How did official pronouncements on the role of English…

Since colonial times, Americans have viewed themselves as distinct from the inhabitants of other lands. Today, many still do: relishing a sense of the…

A wide spectrum of critical approaches to the works of German, English, American, French and Scandinavian Romantic writers is displayed in these fifte…

Translating Nations shows how the latest approaches to postcolonial theory cross traditional disciplinary boundaries and demand their reinterpretation…

Novelist Sean O'Faolain, playwright Brian Friel, and poet Seamus Heaney have been highly critical of the Irish revolutionary generation for its oversi…

Prominent Scandinavian authors from the end of the nineteenth century struggled with the classical themes of myth and religion and the modern concepts…

The Mathematics of Meaning examines the foundation of mathematics, the fictions of Jose Luis Borges, and the aesthetics of Marcel Proust as it is unfo…

Iwano Homei (1873-1920) was the first Japanese writer to concern himself theoretically with the question of presenting a point of view within a narrat…