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Peter Lang Oxford welcomes new book proposals for the series

Series Editor: Florian Mussgnug, University College London

New Comparative Criticism is dedicated to innovative research in literary and cultural studies. It invites contributions with a comparative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary focus, including comparative studies of themes, genres, and periods, and research in the following fields: literary and cultural theory; material and visual cultures; reception studies; cultural history; comparative gender studies and performance studies; diasporas and migration studies; transmediality. The series is especially interested in research that articulates and examines new developments in comparative literature, in the English-speaking world and beyond. It seeks to advance methodological reflection on comparative literature, and aims to encourage critical dialogue between scholars of comparative literature at an international level.

Proposals are welcome for monographs or edited collections. For more information, please contact Dr Laurel Plapp, Senior Commissioning Editor, Peter Lang Ltd, 52 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU, United Kingdom. Email: [log in to unmask]. Tel: ++44 (0)1865 514160.

Recent Volumes

Comparative Becomings

Studies in Transition

Edited by Michael G. Kelly and Daragh O’Connell

Oxford, 2017. VIII, 280 pp., 1 b/w ill.

New Comparative Criticism, Volume 4

Series Editor: Florian Mussgnug

ISBN: 978-3-0343-1811-2 pb.

Available in ePDF and ePub formats

The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of transition between the terms compared. Understood as an intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be understood as both a transitive and a transnational process, creating its own object and form of knowledge as it identifies and analyses lines of relation and exchange between literary cultures. When navigating between languages, the discipline becomes critically engaged with the possibility and methods of such navigation. Interdisciplinary and intermedial versions of comparative studies likewise centre around transitions that may themselves remain under-analysed.

This collection of essays, with contributions ranging from medieval literature to digital humanities, seeks to illuminate and interrogate the very diversity of comparative situations, with their attendant versions of comparative discourse. The volume as a whole thereby reflects, however fragmentedly, a field of study that is itself faced with the reality of transition. As both a thematic and formal concern in comparative work, transition emerges, within any historical period or other configuration in which it is charted and analysed, as key to the renewed relevance of comparative literary scholarship and study today.

Michael G. Kelly lectures in French and comparative literature at the University of Limerick.

Daragh O’Connell is a lecturer in Italian Studies at University College Cork.

Available for purchase here: https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/46866.

Narrating the Passions

New Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Literature

Edited by Simona Corso and Beth Guilding

Oxford, 2017. XII, 252 pp., 7 b/w ill.

New Comparative Criticism, Volume 5

Series Editor: Florian Mussgnug

ISBN: 978-1-78707-121-6

Available soon in ePDF and ePUB formats

The passions are at the heart of human experience. Literature, which foregrounds human experience, captures the complexity of the passions more acutely than the generalizations of theory. This collection of essays by leading comparatists acknowledges the timeless and ever-changing presence of the passions in literary texts and responds to multiple and changing contexts. Through the analysis of well-known and less familiar works, the contributors to this volume explore some of the universal experiences of human passion: romantic love, seduction, parental affection, child-like wonder, obsession, indignation, melancholic apathy. A methodological concern links the different sections of the volume: is it possible to trace the vicissitudes of human passion through time and space? This question finds a response in the comparative approach, which captures the complexity of human passions through different periods and cultures. Comparative literary analysis, in combination with philosophical, psychological, sociological and psychoanalytic inquiry, enables the contributors to this volume to map some of the passions that have been fascinating writers for thousands of years and that continue to shape our stories and our lives.

Simona Corso is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome, Roma Tre.

Beth Guilding is a PhD candidate and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Available for purchase here: https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/78457

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