Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, this volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while dealing with the inherently complex and varied material produced or associated with the iconic artist.

Plank’s study makes the case that reading fiction matters, that reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is a stubborn act of ethical and religious significance, that the trek through its many pages may, in the end, redeem its reader from the lethal loneliness that is "the fact of the cage."

This book argues that certain works by Michael Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, Penelope Lively, Peter Ackroyd, and J.G. Ballard constitute the coordinates of an altermodernity that might bring to an end the most deleterious effects and affects of today’s hyper-aggressive strain of capitalism.

Using the frameworks of trauma and memory studies, this monograph analyses Zadie Smith’s work to foreground postcolonial redefinitions of trauma that challenge universal methods of coping with suffering in global times.

‘Memory and Nation-building’ turns to the contemporary images of World War II in Malaysian literature to explore the way the collective memories of the conflict embody the search for a historical narrative that can accommodate the cultural and ethnic diversity of the country.

Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King’s fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freud’s theory of the uncanny. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary and popular literature, gothic and horror studies, and cultural studies.