The human body is a recurrent theme in contemporary literatures in English. The aim of this collection of essays is to explore its multiple representations and

Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the pre

However disconnected the essays in the volume might appear to be at first glance, the unifying factor is the very notion of ambiguity—which is one of the esse

This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

This book compares three contemporary women writing in German: Herta Muller (from Romania), Libuse Monikova (from Czechoslovakia), and Kerstin Hensel (from the