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Ekphrasis is the technical term for the relationship between literary texts and the visual or the plastic arts, whereby writers write about paintings, photograpy or works of art. This is a concise introduction -- .

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In this sequel to Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic, Badley examines horror fiction as a fantastic genre in which images of the body and the self are articulated and modified.

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Examining a range of genres, including novels, memoirs, travel writing and journalism, this book explores representations of Muslims and Islam in modern English literature. Covering a range of texts and authors, it scrutinises the identity 'Muslim' by looking at its inscription in literary writing within the context of significant events.

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Examining a range of genres, including novels, memoirs, travel writing and journalism, this book explores representations of Muslims and Islam in modern English literature. It discusses the representation of Muslim identity in writing by non-Muslim writers, former Muslim 'native informants', and practising Muslims.

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A collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression. -- .

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Examines the works of selected bilingual and bicultural writers of the United States (including Oscar Hijuelos, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eva Hoffman) and Germany (Libuse Monikova, Rafik Schami, and E S Ozdamar, among others), developing a framework for understanding the relationship between displacement, memory, and language.

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Journalist and literary critic Charlie Lee-Potter explores the links between the novel and journalism--and the place of both in responding to traumatic cultural events--in the aftermath of 9/11.

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This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the Algerian Civil War, arguing that literature--and ideas we have about it--can restrain our understanding of the world at a time of conflict and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to the conflict in the first place.

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One of D.H. Lawrence's main concerns was to explore new ways of writing about the body. This volume considers some of the social, cultural and ideological contexts of Lawrence's writings about the body and engages closely with his texts from a range of pertinent theoretical positions.

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This book uncovers the rich variety of environmental writing across the genres in nineteenth-century American literature. The essays in this collection offer a representative sampling of the nineteenth centurys evolving exploration of the interplay between humans and the natural environment.

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Examines the fiction, non-fictional prose texts, poetry and drama of the Spanish Civil War across the entire range of the political spectrum to assess the impact of political commitment on literature. After providing a political background to the war, this text studies variations in theme.

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This book examines the growing body of autobiographical and fictional writing on family and parenting issues in Anglo-American culture from the late 1990s to the present day.

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This book examines the constantly changing global climate that includes vast numbers of individuals in transit including, but not limited to immigrants, expatriates, and exiles. The contemporary writer has a vital role to play in mapping out the identities and trajectories of nomadic individuals in todays globalizing world.

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Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship studies young adult (YA) fiction that analyzes corporate sponsorship of media literacy practices in and through YA fiction. It shows how YA novels model for young people ways to manage the various media tools that surround them.

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