Shakespearean tragedies have played an important part in
modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures.
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films,
and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely
hybridization...
The introduction to this collection of multimedia essays
on Maqbool and The Banquet argues that close examination of the films through
a truly global array of appropriative strategies and cultural contexts can
help combat the tendency to report on rather than analyze non-Western works
and...
At a time when Shakespeare is becoming increasingly globalized and diversified, it is urgent more than ever to ask how this appropriated 'Shakespeare' constructs ethical value across cultural and other fault lines. Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the...
Homer’s Iliad has always held a fascination for me in the drama of its central heroes, particularly when it comes to Achilles. The original Greek text holds little back in its depictions of its heroes; Achilles wails as he rips off his clothes and in other moments of heroic redemption drags a...
English Romantic reception of King Lear is an important part of Shakespeare's
afterlife. This book investigates Anglo-American post-Romanticist readings
and appropriations of Lear as a seminal text on the relationship between
literature and politics, specifically succession as a philosophical...
The stories in this project, and the story of this project, are intimately invested in creating and exploring spectral enmeshments that are poly-chronic, wonder-oriented and always more than human. The narratives I work with—found in the writings of Walter Map, Gerald of Wales, and Gervase of...
Contemporary Latinx speculative fiction—stories of monsters, time travel, and the otherworldly, among other things—conquered the academy, the literary market, and popular culture beginning in the 1990s. Scholarly criticism typically argues that reimaginations of conquest, colonialism, and racial...
This dissertation examines the way in which literary fiction may enable individuals to transcend tribe-centered biases by fostering empathetic understanding. It draws from a wealth of neuroscience research to explore how such fiction, through the creation of emotionally resonant characters,...
Anglophone, Protestant literary traditions figure heavily in the historicization of the novel and the central role privacy plays in the narrativization of concealment. Protestantism’s focus on piety through individual self-reflection has been credited as the catalyst for the nineteenth-century...