This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment.

Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys's Writings seeks to circumscribe Jean Rhys's work within a paradigm that reflects the search for a cultural identity so specific to postcolonial literature. The book carries out an examination of the relationship between hybrid identities, self and otherness and of several situations of existential ambivalence that work on the border between sign (colonial difference) and symbol (imperial authority).

Not I -- Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition takes a closer look at how Ishiguro's narrators deal with their metaphorical 'parents', their literary ancestors from Hamlet to Alfred Prufrock. Ishiguro's narrators unwittingly express a metafictional concern about their existence in the shadows of English literary history and struggle with an imagined pressure to compete with iconic literary characters. This book traces their narrative anxiety...

In The Poet as Experiencer: Wallace Stevens and Nonhuman Intelligence, Adam Staley Groves approaches Stevens, not merely as poet-thinker but rather as experiencer and theorist of what is today called "the phenomenon" (UFOs). Challenging both Stevens scholarship and our broader understanding of poetic consciousness, the book presents a radical appraisal of Stevens's oeuvre as an extended, coded testimony of contact with nonhuman intelligence. Drawing...

"Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora analyzes the work of two of the most acclaimed contemporary American and Caribbean authors for the first time in a single book. Extending beyond scholarly approaches to home as a theoretical construct, Neighbor-Homes considers how Alvarez and Danticat inaugurate multiple spaces of belonging for their off- and on-island fictional characters, for their diverse community...

Aantekeninge by Koos Prinsloo bied 'n kritiese begeleiding by die verskyning van Koos Prinsloo se versamelde Verhale by Human & Rousseau in 2008. In sy ontleding agterhaal Olivier Prinsloo se diverse bronne en bied insig in hoe die verhale vanaf Jonkmanskas (1982) 'n steeds uitdagender konfrontasie word met literêre konvensies, politieke magsvorme, geweld en uiteindelik die dood. Gerrit Olivier is hoogleraar in Afrikaans en Nederlands en tans hoof...