Literature for Change
The Case for Literary Research Across Languages and Cultures
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Literature for Change
The Case for Literary Research Across Languages and Cultures
Highlighting efforts to address today’s most pressing social challenges through the study of texts in languages other than English.
Literature for Change explores the impact literary research has made to areas including the museums and heritage sector, the environmental and medical humanities, and the digital world at a time of transformation.
215 pages | 20 | 8.5 x 5.51 | © 2026
Understanding Languages, Cultures and Societies
Culture Studies:
Table of Contents
Introduction
Charles Burdett, Joseph Ford, Godela Weiss-Sussex and Naomi Wells1 Ancient tales for troubled times: exploring cross-cultural encounters through storytelling and the visual arts
Rachel Scott2 Modern medieval languages: reading in and out of time
Sarah Bowden3 Spanish feminist networks: stories for today
Nuria Capdevila-Arguelles4 Using the past to save our future: modern languages and the heritage industry
Carol Tully5 Towards sustainable practices in the ‘post-museum’? post-object lessons from contemporary world literature
Emma Bond6 Place and planet: literary research in an age of ‘global challenges’
Nicola Thomas7 Literary studies and decolonial praxis
Emanuelle Santos8 Hungry for words: what literary research can do for the understanding of mental illness
Heike Bartel9 Reality, representation, resistance: a case study of an Arab cancer ethnodrama
Abir Hamdar10 Expanding horizons: reconsidering literary studies in the digital age
Reham Hosny11 Poetry versus Putin: challenging Russian myths of masculinity
Connor Doak