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Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, 'Character Constellations' presents a range of data-driven, statistical models to study depictions of characters in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and other identity categories. Incorporating the tools of network analysis, each chapter highlights an aspect of fictional social networks that affects the representation of social groups: their centrality, their communities, and their conflicts. While reading individual novels in light of emerging statistical patterns, combining the formal methods of social network analysis with the interpretive tools of narratology, this study shows how central societal themes such as (in)equality and emancipation, integration and segregation, and social mobility and class struggle are foregrounded, replicated, or distorted in the Dutch novel.0Showcasing what character-based critiques of literary representation gain by integrating data-driven methods into the practice of critical close reading, 'Character Constellations' contributes to societal debates on cultural representation and identity and the role fiction and art have in those debates.

Dutch fiction --- Social groups in literature --- Dutch literature --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- Social groups in literature. --- Dutch fiction. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Roman neerlandais --- European --- General. --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism.

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With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how various Islamic and eastern cultural threads weaved themselves, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the 'Renaissance'. Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.

Non-fiction --- Sociology of literature --- History of civilization --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Travel writing --- Travel, Medieval --- Culture diffusion --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Culture --- Social change --- Civilization, Medieval --- Travel --- Authorship --- History --- E-books --- Travelers' writings --- History and criticism. --- Eastern travels. --- Muslim-Christian encounters. --- cultural exchange. --- early modern. --- medieval. --- mercantile exchanges. --- renaissance. --- travel writing.

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Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comics studies, children’s comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about refugees and marginalised ethnic or cultural groups. The book enriches traditional historical, narratological and aesthetic approaches to studying girlhood in comics with practice-based research, discussion and conversation. This re-examination of girls, gender and identity in comics connects with contemporary discourse on gender identity politics. Through examples from both within Europe, the anglophone world and beyond, and including visual essays alongside critical theory, the volume furthermore engages with new developments in contemporary comics scholarship. It will therefore appeal to students and scholars of childhood studies, comics scholars and creators, and those interested in addressing gender identity through the prism of comics.

Gender identity in comics. --- Girls in comics. --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- History and criticism. --- Girls in comics --- Comic books, strips, etc --- History and criticism --- 82-931 --- 82-931 Stripverhaal --- Stripverhaal --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Iconography --- Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- childhood --- girls --- comics [documents] --- gender identity

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Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Marie Cardinal, Maryse Condé, Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Augustine, and Nietzsche.

Non-fiction --- Thematology --- Sociology of literature --- Autobiography --- Biography as a literary form --- Literature, Modern --- Self in literature --- Women --- Autobiographie --- Biographie (Genre littéraire) --- Littérature moderne --- Moi dans la littérature --- Femmes --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Biography --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- Biographie --- Biographie (Genre littéraire) --- Littérature moderne --- Moi dans la littérature --- Femmes écrivains --- History and criticism. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Technique --- Biography: general

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The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legitimization of literature in these "vulgar tongues"? Until now, the answer has centred on the somewhat nebulous role of new female vernacular readers. Powell argues that a different appraisal of the same evidence offers a window onto something more momentous: not "women readers" but instead a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century. This woman is at the centre of a re-conception of Christian knowing, a veritable revolution in the mediation of knowledge and truth. By following this figure through detailed readings of key early works, Powell unveils a surprise, a new poetics of the body meant to embrace the capacities of new audiences and viewers of medieval literature and visual art.

Literature, Medieval --- German literature --- French literature --- Women and literature --- Women --- Appreciation. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History --- Religious life --- History. --- Books and reading --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Literature --- Chrétien de Troyes. --- Courtly Romance. --- Exegesis. --- Female Spirituality. --- Fiction. --- Use of images. --- Vernacular Literature. --- Wolfram von Eschenbach. --- Literature, Medieval. --- French literature. --- Women and literature. --- Middle High German. --- Books and reading. --- Middle Ages. --- Religious life. --- To 1500. --- Europe. --- Christian church history --- Sociology of literature --- anno 1100-1199