The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines. Attending to literary, digital, visual, cinematic, televisual, and aural forms of storytelling, this book brings founders of the field of post-classical narrative theory together with senior and emerging scholars.

The study also includes a comparative discussion of art broadly defined as “black British,” in order to question assumptions concerning racial and ethnic identities that the artists often negotiate through their works―particularly the expectation or “burden” of representing minority or marginalized communities.

The analyses include such authors as Cristina Peri Rossi, Manuel Puig, Luisa Valenzuela, Enrique Sánchez, Roberto Bolaño, Claudia Piñeiro, Margarita Mateo Palmer, Boris Salazar and Rosario Ferré.

Too much blood and ink has been shed for the art machines and the revolutionary machines to remain separate. Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theorist who lives in Vienna, Austria.

Owenson combined conventional romance plotlines with the political and social problems in Ireland, following the passing of the Act of Union in 1800.

The book offers a fresh conceptual framework that sheds new light on both the vast minutia and the broad picture.

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays.