This book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe appropriate supernatural devices like prophecies, dreams, beliefs, and divinations to create complex characters such as Macbeth, Othello, Okonkwo, and Ezeulu.

This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions--utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children’s fables—as responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860.

It, unpacks Arabic dystopian fiction from the lens of psychological distress. It studies novels by Algerian, Egyptian, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Mauritanian, Syrian, and Tunisian authors. Elmeligi predicts a speculative fiction turn in the Arabic novel, and provides a theoretical approach to understand its nuanced and innovative contribution

This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy in Central Europe.　The essays move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation and audience studies,　and offer methodological reflections on the various cultural perceptions of Tolkien’s oeuvre and its impact on twenty-first century manifestations. They analyse how discourses about fantasy are produced and mediated, and how processes of re-mediation shape our understanding of the historical coordinates and local...