Sayed Asma Sayed & Murji Karim Murji 
Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji [EPUB ebook] 
Diaspora, Literature, and Culture

Winner of the DHLSNA Biennial Award for a Book by a Newly Published Scholar Exploring draft manuscripts, alternative texts and publishers” typescripts, The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence reveals new …

New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of one of the most important literary genres: the lyric poem. In Cognitive Ecopoetics, Sharo …

Originally published in 1926, this title was edited from a series of lectures the author gave to raise money for her theatre group the Lena Ashwell Players. Through her work as a producer the author …

This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such …

The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book expands the study of such stories to include the writings of Frederick Doug …

This book provides an introduction to women cartoonists in the US, reading their work from a feminist, literary and stylistic perspective, which shines a light on their innovative and unique narrativ …

What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is ‘reading for the details’ fundamentally different from ‘reading for the plot’? Did xijie xiaoshuo, the Chinese novel of d …

This book provides a concise and highly readable reassessment of Iris Murdoch”s engagement with philosophy throughout her life and proposes that she was, most importantly, a philosophical novelist. …

Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilisation, …

This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî ( The Book of Songs) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until …