Books in the Silesian Studies in Anglophone Cultures and Literatures series

This volume offers a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to love, shame, grief, nostalgia and trauma. The 18 articles examine the representations of emotion in drama, poetry and prose - from the medieval Court of Love to Ali Smith's How to Be Both - as well as in life writing, music and the visual arts.

Collected under the theme of "Visions and Revisions", the papers included in this volume examine different aspects of literature and culture of the Anglophone world. Divided into three parts - poetry, prose and culture - this diverse volume reflects the dynamics of change in literature and culture, enabling investigation of the multifaceted canon.

This volume explores the notions of excess, intemperance and overabundance in cultures and literatures of both the English- and Chinese-speaking worlds. It concentrates on some aspects of literary and cultural meanings of excess(es) in various theories and practices of these antipodean territories of human experience and consciousnesses.

This book analyses strategies applied by J.M. Coetzee for the representation of South African spaces. Subversive treatment of literary spatial conventions (e.g. the pastoral mode) results in the creation of postmodern heterogenous, fluid and open spaces. Alternative topographies reverse the colonizing project and redefine relations with the other.

Writing from the Margins of Europe assesses the potential for postcolonial analysis of works by W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and James Joyce. In this exploration of postcolonial parallels between these writers, the author focuses on four core issues: Historiography, Nationalism, Language and Displacement.

This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural production of emotions. The 17 articles examine how emotions are represented and produced in a variety of genres, from medieval moralities to contemporary novels, from English Romanticism to film studies.

The book examines contemporary representations of East Asia in Anglophone novels and films. It analyses Western characters transformed under East Asian influence, e.g. the impact of Eastern martial arts and religions on Western masculinities, East Asian motifs in utopian/dystopian fiction, and depictions of interracial romantic relationships.