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Climate
We could try writing letters, one of us said to the other after our cross-country trip was over and we weren’t done talking. Talking about hurricanes, fires, floods, droughts, freezes….
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Cold Snap as Yearning
Whether confronting a gravel road, a hallucinatory vision of a horse-woman, a deep sensitivity to noise, or the curiosity of crows, Robert Vivian sees the world in a novel way,…
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Consuming Narratives
While moralists may stress the importance of the proper management of appetite, medieval and early modern narratives are full of images of monstrous and deformed appetites running out of control….
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Consuming Narratives
Liz Herbert McAvoy teaches in the English Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She has written widely on female spirituality and mysticism, especially in relation to Julian of Norwich…
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Consuming Texts
This book is a history of reading in the British Isles from 1695-1870 that focuses on “common” rather than professional readers and which explores a range of previously undervalued sources….
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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada brings together important and innovative works from modern Jewish writers living in Canada. This anthology presents a variety of male and female voices, both established…
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Crash Cultures
Since Diana’s car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and…
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Crash Cultures
Since Diana’s car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and…
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Dreams and Thunder
Zitkala-Ša (Red Bird) (1876–1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was one of the best-known and most influential Native Americans of the twentieth century. Born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation,…
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Emyr Humphreys
Conversations and Reflections brings together the previously uncollected ‘occasional writings’ of Emyr Humphreys, the major novelist of twentieth-century Wales. It maps the historical and cultural background to the work of…
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Essays in Aesthetics
Over the course of the past forty years, Gérard Genette’s work has profoundly influenced scholars of narratology, poetics, aesthetics, and literary and cultural criticism, and he continues to be one…
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Essays in Aesthetics
Over the course of the past forty years, Gérard Genette’s work has profoundly influenced scholars of narratology, poetics, aesthetics, and literary and cultural criticism, and he continues to be one…