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This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for

Reading Words into Worlds asks how it is that reading a novel can feel in some ways like being-in-a-world. The book explores how novels give themselves to reade

Language in Literature examines the overlap and blurring boundaries of English, comparative and world poetry and literature. Questions of language, literature,