Literature & Language

This book focuses on bicultural literature and film in English or French by those not working in their native language, exploring works by European and North African artists for their explicitly multifocal representation of authors’ experiences of their native languages and cultures. Essays consider..

In this collection, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including dialectology, literary linguistics, socio-linguistics, literary studies, and the history of the English language, have come together to examine the theory, context, and ideology of the use of dialect in the nineteenth century..

A collected volume of essays capturing the vitality of the current transcultural European dialogue on English studies. The volume addresses a diversity of subjects in literary studies and is particulary strong in literary theory and poetry...

Formulaicity in literature has long been disparaged as the opposite of creativity, and a hallmark of ‘genre fiction’ of questionable aesthetic value. However, more recent approaches see all writing as intertextual – a tissue of citations and creative reworkings of other texts. This book elucidates t..

The book’s main focus is on the development of an awareness of speech pathology in the literary imaginary from the late-eighteenth century to the present, studying the novel, drama, epic poetry, lyric poetry, children’s literature, autobiography and autopathography, and clinical case studies and gui..

This book shows how concepts of ‘language’ and ‘multilingualism’ look different when viewed from varied locations, and asks how ideas about literature and literary form must be remade in a contemporary cultural marketplace that is both linguistically diverse and interconnected. Scholars of literary ..