Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
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Michael Weber
Ruth Barratt-Peacock
Timelines in Emily Brontë’s «Wuthering Heights»
Concrete Horizons: Romantic Irony in the Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson
Berlin, 2020. 208 pp., 12 fig. b/w.
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Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media. Vol. 6 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-80555-8 CHF 65.– / €D 55.95 / €A 57.50 / € 52.30 / £ 43.– / US-$ 63.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-82435-1 CHF 65.– / €D 55.95 / €A 57.50 / € 52.30 / £ 43.– / US-$ 63.95
The temporal structure of Wuthering Heights has long been regarded as opaque or even flawed. This is explained by the fact that the years 1778, 1801 and 1802 do not entirely cohere with the numerous relative time references in the novel if, as scholarship contends, the years 1801 and 1802 refer to Ellen Dean’s narration of the story. By means of mathematically precise calculations and a grammatical analysis of the text, this critical new approach argues that the time frame of Wuthering Heights is sound if the years 1801 and 1802 date the writing of Mr. Lockwood’s diary. The crucial differentiation between the recording of Mr. Lockwood’s diary and the narration of Ellen Dean’s story leads to a deeper understanding of the intentions of the two narrators and the behaviour of the p rotagonists.
Berlin, 2020. 292 pp. MUSE: Munich Studies in English. Münchener Schriften zur Englischen Philologie. Vol. 45 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-81268-6 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.60 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-81963-0
Drawing on Bernd Mahr’s model theory, this volume introduces a new approach to Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. Focusing on two very different authors, David Malouf and the Indigenous poet Samuel Wagan Watson, this book highlights their similarities rather than their differences. It is the first booklength study dedicated specifically to each author’s poetic oeuvre. Comprehensive readings reveal that an ironic dialectic underpins how each poet writes from within a disjunct of culture and environment following colonisation, finding hope in dialogue and a productive process of negative assertion. The theoretical framing of Romanticism developed here effectively rehabilitates Romanticism as a productive paradigm in contemporary Australian poetry.
Virginia Fusco
The Symbolic Potential of the Hybrid: Anita Blake and Horror and Vampire Literature Berlin, 2021. 212 pp. Anglo-amerikanische Studien / Anglo-American Studies. Literatur, Kultur und Didaktik / Literature, Culture and Teaching. Vol. 67 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-85720-5 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.60 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-86388-6 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.70 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95
Human imagination is saturated with monsters. They represent, in a number of ways, those that have been historically perceived as strangers to the human community. It is a game of alterities wherein female monsters have occupied a particularly relevant position. Women have been historically represented as the Other in this human/nonhuman dyad. In the present study nineteenth- and twentiethcentury vampires’ and zombies’ narratives have guided the analysis of a contemporary neo-gothic artefact: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton. This book argues at the intersection of feminist literary analysis and cultural studies methodology, and it also considers queer notions of fluidity and performativity. The author sets out that Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter represents a
