Part memoir, part imagined history, this unique personal essay depicts the intimate experience of childhood bereavement, lost love affairs, and the complicated realities of motherhood and marriage.
The Art of Distances is a philosophical examination of the work of twentieth-century authors such as George Orwell, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Walter Benjamin, Annie Ernaux, Günter Grass, and Damon Galgut, showing how they explored the question of living together.
An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino explores the wound as a cornerstone of twentieth-century storytelling—from the invention of literary modernity by Charles Baudelaire to the current postmodernist concerns of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek and the acclaimed but highly controversial filmmakers Michael Haneke and Quentin Tarantino.
In Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination Silke Stroh offers a general introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations in order to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue.
In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized.
Points of Departure is a collection of twelve essays broadly divided into explorations of the nature of spectrality, on the one hand, and the dynamics of reading, on the other.
The essays collected in Un/Translatables unite two inescapable interventions in contemporary translation discourses: the concept of "Untranslatables" as points of productive resistance, and the Germanic tradition as the primary dialogue partner for translation studies.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture is the first collection of its kind on this subject. The volume brings together a range of original essays that address different aspects of the role and presence of Jews and Jewishness in British film and television from the interwar period to the present.
In Space as Storyteller, Laura Chiesa explores several stories across a wide range of time that narrate spatial jumps, from Benjamin's tangential take on the cityscape, the experimentalism of Futurist theatricality, the multiple and potential atlases narrated by Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, and the posturban thought and practice of Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas/OMA.
Contributions by Sarah Ensro, Claire Colebrook, Jami Weinstein, Penelope Deutscher, Robert McKay, Isabel A. Moore, Matthias Rudolf, Donna V. Jones and Ranjana Khanna
The contributors to Against Life think critically about the turn to life in theory and culture and especially about its redemptive tendencies. Editors Alastair Hunt and Stephanie Youngblood shape their collection to provocatively challenge an assumption rife in the humanities, mainly that the idea of redeeming life might hinder important ethical conversations.
