Ever since antiquity poetry and painting have competed for cultural primacy, and intellectuals from Simonides of Ceos to W. J. T. Mitchell have incessantly renewed […]
Category: Literature
Other worlds and the narrative construction of otherness
The papers collected in this volume deal with the explorations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and, more generally, the representation of otherness through the narrative construction […]
Fictional Artworks. Literary Ékphrasis and the Invention of Images
The volume is devoted to images in painting, photography and cinema invented by literature. At the same time it intends to question, through this perspective, […]
Plots and Plotters. Double Agents and Villains in Spy Fictions
The aim of this collection of essays is to explore “negative characters” in the espionage narratives of some of the most esteemed English writers, such […]