Fiction and Reality

The series Fiction and Reality focuses on the juxtaposition of fiction and reality. Firmly rooted in comparative Literature, its monographs and anthologies explore topics like the interaction of fiction and reality or fiction’s potential to resist reality. Not limited to classical literary studies, publications frequently explore their topics in relation to other disciplines like film, fan fiction or computer games.

2 publications

Mediated Fictions

ISSN: 2194-5918

The Mediated Fiction series aims at providing a forum for studies in English Language and Literatures, but also Comparative Literature, the History of Sciences, and Slavonic Languages and Literatures. The series emphasis is on studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives. The editors, Professor Artur Blaim and Associate Professor Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim, specialize in literary theory, cultural semiotics and fictional worlds in literature and cinema. The Mediated Fiction series aims at providing a forum for studies in English Language and Literatures, but also Comparative Literature, the History of Sciences, and Slavonic Languages and Literatures. The series emphasis is on studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives. The editors, Professor Artur Blaim and Associate Professor Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim, specialize in literary theory, cultural semiotics and fictional worlds in literature and cinema. The Mediated Fiction series aims at providing a forum for studies in English Language and Literatures, but also Comparative Literature, the History of Sciences, and Slavonic Languages and Literatures. The series emphasis is on studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives. The editors, Professor Artur Blaim and Associate Professor Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim, specialize in literary theory, cultural semiotics and fictional worlds in literature and cinema.

23 publications

World Science Fiction Studies

ISSN: 2296-8814

World Science Fiction Studies understands science fiction to be an inherently global phenomenon. Proposals are invited for monographs and edited collections that celebrate the tremendous reach of a genre that continues to be interpreted and transformed by a variety of cultures and linguistic communities around the world. The series embraces this global vision of the genre but also supports the articulation of each community’s unique approach to the challenges of science, technology and society. The series encourages the use of contemporary theoretical approaches (e.g. postcolonialism, posthumanism, feminisms, ecocriticism) as well as engagement with positionalities understood through critical race and ethnicity studies, gender studies, queer theory, disability studies, class analysis, and beyond. Interdisciplinary work and research on any media (e.g. print, film, television, visual arts, video games, new media) is welcome. The language of the series is English. Advisory Board: Jinyi Chu (Yale University), Antonio Cordoba (Manhattan College), Elizabeth Ginway (University of Florida), Hugh O’Connell (University of Massachusetts, Boston), Iva Polak (University of Zagreb), Umberto Rossi (Sapienza University of Rome), Alfredo Luiz Suppia (University of Campinas), Ida Yoshinaga (Georgia Institute of Technology).

4 publications

Genre Fiction and Film Companions

ISSN: 2631-8725

The Genre Fiction and Film Companions provide accessible introductions to key texts within the most popular genres of our time. Written by leading scholars in the field, brief essays on individual texts offer innovative ways of understanding, interpreting and reading the topics in question. Invaluable for students, teachers and fans alike, these surveys offer new insights into the most important literary works, films, music, events and more within genre fiction and film.

25 publications

Language as Social Action

This Series explores new and exciting advances in the ways in which language both reflects and fashions social reality--and thereby constitutes critical means of social action. As well as these being central foci in face-to-face interactions across different cultures, they also assume significance in the ways that language functions in the mass medias, new technologies, organizations, and social institutions. Language As Social Action does not uphold apartheid against any particular methodological and/or ideological position, but, rather, promotes (wherever possible) cross-fertilization of ideas and empirical data across the many, all-too-contrastive, social scientific approaches to language and communication. Contributors to the Series will also accord due attention to the historical, political, and economic forces that contextually bound the ways in which language patterns are analyzed, produced, and received. The Series will also provide an important platform for theory-driven works that have profound, and oftentimes provocative, implications for social policy.

34 publications

University of Texas Studies in Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction

7 publications

Language and Forensics

0 publications

History and Language

ISSN: 1062-2306

6 publications

Sprachkönnen und Sprachbewusstheit in Europa / Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe

The series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe unites interdisciplinary linguistic research with a thematic focus on multilingualism, linguistic choices and linguistic variability, language contact processes in Europe – and beyond its boundaries – as well as situated speech practices and literacy skills in private and public spaces. The series editor Amei Koll-Stobbe welcomes manuscript proposals, especially data orientated analyses of language competence cum performance with a priority on basic research (without any restrictions regarding theoretical and methodological frameworks). Prior to publication, the quality of the works published in this series is reviewed by external referees appointed by the editor. In der Buchreihe Sprachkönnen und Sprachbewusstsein in Europa erscheinen vorwiegend Sammelbände aus Linguistik und Anglistik. Der thematische Fokus liegt auf der Sprachkontaktlinguistik, auf Aspekten von Sprachwahl und Sprachvariabilität in nationalen Sprachgrenzen – oder über diese hinweg – sowie auf situierten Sprachpraktiken (und literacy skills) in privaten und öffentlichen Räumen. Die Herausgeberin Amei Koll-Stobbe freut sich über Publikationsvorschläge v.a. aus dem Bereich der datenorientierten Analyse von sprachlicher Kompetenz cum Performanz mit einer grundlagenforschungsorientierten Ausrichtung (Beschränkungen auf bestimmte Untersuchungsmethoden oder Rahmentheorien gibt es nicht). Die Qualität der in dieser Reihe erscheinenden Arbeiten wird vor der Publikation durch externe, von der Herausgeberin benannte Gutachter geprüft.

11 publications