Books in the English Literature and Culture in Context series

Focused on selected texts by Paolo Bacigalupi, this book explores science fiction as a platform for activist interventions. It discusses genealogical debates, genre conventions of cyberpunk and biopunk, cognitive estrangement, metaphoric strategies and metonymic tactics, and analyses Bacigalupi's texts in the context of ecocriticism.

The figure of John Bull stereotypically personifies the best and the worst traits of the British (or English) national character. The perspectives adopted in John Bull and the Continent extend the meaning of the metaphor and take the eponymous juxtaposition as an incentive to study the variety of multi-faceted relationships between the two sides.

The volume focuses on autobiographical, biographical and confessional writing, as well as on travel literature to highlight the various interdependencies and crossovers between writers' lives and their literary output.

The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it.

The study presents a chronotope of linguistic changes that took place within Welsh and English speech communities (4th-8th c.). It encompasses the adaptation of runic, ogham and Latin scripts, whereas inscriptions are treated as designed text occurrences with well-planned content distribution and intentional placing in the public space.