Serpil Oppermann 
Blue Humanities [PDF ebook] 
Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene

Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers’ accounts. This monograph employs a c …

Influenced by Enlightenment principles and commercial transformations, the history of the book in the eighteenth century witnessed not only the final decades of the hand-press era but also developmen …

Michel Foucault’s 1969 essay “What is an Author?” sidesteps the stormy arguments surrounding “intentional fallacy” and the “death of the author, ” offering an entirely different way of looking at tex …

Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between ”pagan” and ”Christian” forms of poetry: whereas Christian poetry is taken seriously in terms …

At the very heart of Christian doctrine and late medieval practice was the image of the crucified Christ. Sarah Beckwith examines the social meaning of this image across a range of key devotional Eng …

Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. ”Deep Classics” is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of th …

The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 have had a profound impact on contemporary American literature and culture. With chapters written by leading …

In this trenchant and lively study Brian Mc Hale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic …

In this book, Yael Greenberg discusses and clarifies a number of controversial issues and phenomena in the generic literature, including the existence of ‘episodic genericity, ‘ existential presuppos …

Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. According …