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Index
- Names commencing ‘Mc’ appear in the index as if spelt ‘Mac’.
- Abyad, Lina, 164
- Adwan, Moneim, 178
- Ahmed, Rehana, 15
- AI (Artificial Intelligence), 11, 70, 76
- Alareer, Refaat, 68
- Al-Bassam, Sulayman, Mirror for Princes - Kalilawa Dimna, 177–8
- algorithmic resistance (to digital surveillance), 66, 74–6, 77
- al-Ward, Namaa, 166
- Ancient Tales for Troubled Times project, 180–1, 183–9
- anthropology, 2, 8, 9
- Apter, Emily, 31, 91
- Arabic literature, 7, 159–61, 162–3, 164–7, 168–70, 171–2, See also Kalila wa Dimna
- Arab women
- cancer
- creative criticism (Wasafuli al-Sabr [I Am Waiting for You]), 161, 164–7, 168–70, 171
- literary representations, 159–60, 162–3, 164, 165
- taboo and silence, 13, 161–4, 165, 168, 169
- value of literary research, 13, 171–2
- digital literary activism, 71–4, 76
- Arnold, Matthew, 48
- Arora-Jonsson, Seema, 89, 91
- Artificial Intelligence (AI), 11, 70, 76
- arts and humanities. See humanities
- Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), 3
- Auden, W. H., In Memory of Sigmund Freud, 17
- Augustine (of Hippo), 32
- authoritarianism, 3, 77
- and crisis of the humanities, 66–8, 69, 71
- literary studies as resistance, 3, 66, 71–7
- autofiction, 128–30, 142
- autopathography. See illness narratives
- Bakhtin, Mikhail, 149
- Bakshi, Sandeep, 49
- bans. See book bans
- Al-Bassam, Sulayman, Mirror for Princes – Kalilawa Dimna, 177–8
- Beck, Ulrich, 27
- Bedford, Christopher, 121
- Benjamin, Elizabeth, 182, 184
- Benjamin, Walter, 16, 58, 59
- Bewes, Timothy, 120, 128, 130
- Bitar, Haifa, Imraa’ Min Hadha al-‘ Asr [A Woman of this Modern Age] (2004), 159–60, 163, 166
- Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius), 32
- Boks, Aron, Luft nach unten: Wie ich mit meiner Magersucht zusammenkam und mit ihr lebte [Room For Less: How I Got Together With My Anorexia and Lived With Her] (2019), 138, 141, 146, 148
- book bans, 3
- Bordo, Susan, 140
- Borge, Jorge Luis, El etnógrafo [The Ethnographer], 10
- Brand, Laurie A., 67
- Braun, Rebecca, 27, 28
- Brioni, Simone, Io e l’Islam [Me and Islam], 8
- British Museum, 119
- Bruni, Frank, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater (2009), 141–2
- Burns, Robert, ‘To a Louse. On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church’ (1786), 101
- Caldwell, Dayna L., 121
- cancer (of Arab women)
- cancer narratives and memoirs, 159–60, 162–3, 164, 165
- creative criticism (Wasafuli al-Sabr [I Am Waiting for You]), 13, 161, 164–7, 168–70, 171
- taboo and silence, 13, 161–4, 165, 168, 169
- value of literary research, 13, 171–2
- canonicity, 27, 46, 49, 50, 57–8, 138
- Capel Curig (Gwynedd, Wales), 111
- Ceredigion Museum, 108, 109, 110
- Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 28, 29
- Charon, Rita, 146
- Chau, Paule, 69
- Chawner, Dave, Weight Expectations: One Man’s Recovery from Anorexia (2018), 137, 138, 141, 146
- Christensen-Strynø, Maria Bee, 208
- Cinderella, 202
- Cixous, Helène, 16
- Clifford, James, 10
- Cohn, Dorrit, 2
- collaboration, 10–15. See also collaborative storytelling; interdisciplinary research; participatory methodologies
- collaborative storytelling, 10, 207, 211
- Ancient Tales for Troubled Times project, 180, 183–7, 188, 189
- Qamos al-Thawra [A Dictionary of the Revolution] (2017) (Hanafi), 71, 72–3
- ‘Retelling the Urban Fox: A Collaborative Fairy Tale’ project, 199, 200, 205–10, 211
- Collini, Stefan, 86, 95
- colonial legacies. See decolonial literary studies; postcolonial literary studies
- comparative literature lens, 3, 12, 35–6, 91–2
- Corser, Sophie, 182, 184
- Coventry University, 87
- COVID-19 pandemic, 101, 126, 188–9
- Craig, Robert, 9
- creative critical mode, 14–17
- Kalila wa Dimna, reworkings of, 177–9, 180–1, 183–9
- ‘Retelling the Urban Fox: A Collaborative Fairy Tale’ project, 197, 201–10
- Wasafuli al-Sabr [I Am Waiting for You] (Hamdar), 161, 164–7
- Culhane, Dara, 166–7
- Cusicanqui, Silvia Rivera, 53, 54
- Cyfarthfa Ironworks (Merthyr Tydfil, Wales), 111–12
- Dalloul, Ali J., 180, 184
- Darwish, Mahmoud, 71, 72
- data colonialism, 75
- Davis, Kathleen, 29, 30–1
- Dearnley, Elizabeth, 200
- Debaene, Vincent, 8–9
- de Certeau, Michel, 76, 126
- decolonial literary studies, 8, 9
- critical praxis, 45–6, 46–7, 49, 56–60
- and decolonial activism, 45, 49, 52–3, 54
- institutionalisation, 53–4
- and the literary critic, 55, 56
- Delderfield, Russell, 140
- DemaOne, 180, 184, 185
- democratic society, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 77–8
- digital media and technologies
- algorithmic resistance (to digital surveillance), 66, 74–6, 77
- and the crisis in the humanities, 66
- digital humanities, 11
- digital literary activism (by Arab women), 71–4, 76
- and object deaccession (by museums), 122
- online and hybrid learning models, 65–6
- for public history, 109, 111
- diversity and inclusivity (UKHE curricula), 46, 47, 48, 52
- Doležalová, Neela, 15
- Donnarumma, Raffaele, 128
- Draesner, Ulrike, Doggerland (2021), 94
- Dufaud, Georges and Achille, 107
- East London Textile Arts (ELTA), 180, 184, 185, 186, 187–9
- eating disorders (men and boys)
- gender labelling, 139–40
- literature and healthcare, 14, 143–9
- men’s illness narratives, 137, 138, 139, 140–3, 144, 146
- Egypt, 67, 71
- Eliot, George, 2
- Ellmann, Maud, 142
- Elnayal, Rayan, 180, 184, 185
- El-Saadawi, Nawal, A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El-Saadawi, 159, 160, 162
- ELTA. See East London Textile Arts (ELTA)
- empathy, literature’s cultivation of, 2–3, 71, 146, 199
- English Studies (UKHE curricula)
- decolonial praxis, 45–6, 46–7, 49, 56–60
- institutionalisation of, 47–9, 50–2, 53–6
- postcolonial approaches, 49–52
- environmental issues, 90, 91, 92–5, 101, 126, 199
- Ernst, Wolfgang, 121, 122
- ethnodrama, Wasafuli al-Sabr [I Am Waiting for You], 13, 160, 161, 164–7, 168–70, 171
- ethnography, 10
- fables. See Kalila wa Dimna
- Fables Across Time exhibition, 178
- Facebook, lexical algorithmic resistance, 74–6, 77
- fairy tales, 198, 206–7, 208–9, 210, 211
- ‘Retelling the Urban Fox’ project, 197, 198, 199–206, 207–8, 209, 210, 211
- Feeling Towns project, 87
- Felski, Rita, 14
- Fine, Michele, 168
- Fontane, Theodor, 5
- Forty, Adrian, 124–5
- Frank, Arthur W., 147, 170
- Frazier, Alyson, 185
- Freire, Paulo, 56, 57
- Frølunde, Lisbeth, 208
- Gallagher, Kathleen, 167–8
- Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar, 9
- Gardi, Tomer, broken german (2016), 4
- Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, 160
- Gaunt, Simon, 26, 31
- GCRF. See Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF, UK)
- gender. See also Arab women; eating disorders (men and boys)
- automated hiring platforms, 70
- medieval performance of (in Iwein, Hartmann von Aue), 34
- Genlis, Stéphanie-Félicité du Crest de Saint-Aubin, Comtesse de, 106
- gentrification, 10, 203, 206, 207
- German-language literature, 3, 4, 7, 25, 34–6, 94, 106–7, 206
- Ghermandi, Gabriella, 8
- Giroux, Henry A., 69, 70
- Glasgow University, 86–7
- global-challenge research agendas, 88–90, 95
- Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF, UK), 88–9
- globalisation, 10, 28, 92, 93
- global/local interface, 90–5, 113, 180, 188
- Goede, Christian August Gottlieb, 107, 111
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust, 6
- Grahl, Gary, Skinny Boy (2007), 148
- ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory, 206, 207
- Grehan, Helena, 170
- Grossman, David, 2
- Hall, Stuart, 9, 48
- Hamdar, Abir, Wasafuli al-Sabr [I Am Waiting for You], 160, 161, 164–7, 168–70, 171
- Hanafi, Amira, Qamos al-Thawra [A Dictionary of the Revolution] (2017), 71, 72–3
- Harrison, Nicholas, 4, 26
- Hartmann von Aue, Iwein, 34–5
- health issues. See cancer (of Arab women); eating disorders (men and boys)
- Heise, Ursula, 91, 92
- heritage. See also museums
- modern languages, literary research, and heritage tourism, 104, 105, 108, 112, 113, 114
- place-based research agenda, 87
- Wales, 14, 106–12, 113
- for well-being, 101
- Herzog Ernst, 34, 35
- Hewson, Mark, 55, 60
- higher education
- digital/online access, 65–6
- economisation of, 68–70, 77–8, 86
- institutionalisation of English studies (UK), 47–9, 50–2, 53–6
- language schools, 11–12
- literary scholarship and medicine, 146
- modern language programmes, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32–6
- place-based and global challenge research agendas, 85–9, 95
- Hilevaara, Katja, 182, 184
- Hodkinson, James, 27
- Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, 121
- humanities
- crisis in, 1, 17, 65, 66–71, 77
- interdisciplinary configurations, 11, 147
- place-based research, 85–8, 89–90
- value of, 1, 65, 68–9, 70, 76, 77, 78, 102–3, 179
- Hyslop-Margison, Emery J., 66–7
- Ibn al-Muqaffa, 177, 182
- ideology
- and fairy tales, 206–7, 208–9
- and the rise of English studies (UK universities), 49, 52
- illness narratives, 138–9, 146
- Arab women’s cancer, 159–60, 162–3, 164, 165
- eating disorders (men and boys), 137, 140–3, 144, 148–9
- inclusivity and diversity (UKHE curricula), 46, 47, 48, 52
- interdisciplinary research, 10–11, 11–12, 13, 182–3
- Ancient Tales for Troubled Times project, 180–1, 183–5
- eating disorders in men, 137, 145–7, 149
- Wetland Times project, 92
- Iraq, 67–8, 177
- Iron John, 202
- Italian-language literature, 8, 128–31
- Jauss, Hans Robert, 33
- Kalila wa Dimna, 177, 181, 182, 183
- reworkings of, 177–9, 180–1, 183–9
- Karout, Dima, 180
- Kettle, Alice, 180, 184, 185, 189
- Khatibi, Abdelkébir, 16
- Khedairi, Betool, Ghayeb [Absent] (2004), 166
- Al Khemir, Sabiha, 178
- Kingdon, Ashton, 206
- Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, 105–6, 113, 114
- Kohl, Jim, Skeletal Marriage (2009), 140, 148
- Kohl, Johann Georg, 109
- Krasnow, Michael, My Life as a Male Anorexic, 148
- Labrie, Vivian, 198
- Lakhous, Amara Divorzio all’islamica a viale Marconi (2010) [Islamic divorce on Viale Marconi], 8
- Laymon, Kiese, Heavy: An American Memoir (2018), 138, 141, 142
- Leavis, F. R., 48
- Leavy, Patricia, 210
- Lees, Clare, 178–9, 181, 183, 184
- Leonard, Hugh A., 66–7
- Levitsky, Steven, 71
- Linge, Ina, 9
- literary criticism/analysis, 4–8
- and the creative critical mode, 14, 16, 17
- in the digital age, 66
- English Studies, institutionalisation of (UKHE curricula), 48, 55
- medieval literature in the modern languages classroom, 32, 33–6
- post-and de-colonial, 35, 47, 49, 50, 51–2, 53, 55–6, 56–60
- post-fictional novels, 12, 120, 121, 122–3, 124, 126, 128–31
- Lobel, Brian, 167, 168–9
- local/global interface, 90–5, 113, 180, 188
- Lorde, Audre, 170
- Lowe, Lisa, 10
- McCann, Philip, 85
- McClelland, Sara, 168
- McLean, Stuart, 166
- Madgin, Rebecca, 87
- Mandel, Emily St. John, Station Eleven, 126, 127
- Mann, Thomas, Buddenbrooks (1901), 6
- Marcus, George, 10
- masculinity
- eating disorders (in men and boys), 14, 138, 140, 141
- medieval performance of (in Iwein, Hartmann von Aue), 34
- Massey, Doreen, 205
- Mathews, Timothy, 16
- Mbembe, Achille, 89, 91
- medicine (academic discipline), 11, 137, 138, 139, 143, 145–7
- medieval era
- medieval literature. See also Kalila wa Dimna
- foxes, 197, 200
- and modern languages research, 25, 26, 32–6
- and modernity, 29–31
- theories of time, 32
- men. See eating disorders (men and boys)
- MENA. See Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
- Mendelssohn, Felix, 106
- Middle Ages. See medieval era
- Middle East and North Africa (MENA). See also Arab women; Kalila wa Dimna
- academic freedoms, 67–8
- digital literary activism and lexical algorithmic disruption, 71–7
- Mignolo, Walter, 53, 54
- migrant experiences
- in Ancient Tales for Troubled Times project, 185, 186, 188
- eating disorders and the Italian food culture, 141–2
- Italian post/decolonial literature, 8
- in Pereira de Almeida, Djaimilia, As Telefones [The Phones] (2020), 57–9
- Play for Progress project, 181
- Mirror for Princes - Kalilawa Dimna (Al-Bassam, SABAB Theatre production), 177–8
- Mneimneh, Rania, 180
- modernity
- periodisation, 26, 29–31
- post-and de-colonial literary studies, 51, 58–9
- modern languages
- literary research
- and heritage tourism, 105, 108, 112, 113, 114
- interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration, 11–12
- medieval literature, 25, 26, 32–6
- and public history, 104–6, 113, 114
- societal relevance, 25–6, 102, 103–4
- as the study of difference, 27–8, 37
- transnationality and politics of periodisation, 26, 27–31
- Mokhbat, Jacques, 170
- Morgan, John F., 140
- Morris, Jean, 180, 184, 185
- multi-valency, 6
- museums
- British Museum, 119
- ‘European Travellers to Wales: 1750–2010’ project, partners in, 108, 109, 110
- externalising memory, 123–4
- Fables Across Time exhibition, 178
- Museum of Civilization (in Station Eleven), 126, 127
- object accumulation and deaccession, 12, 119, 120–2, 124
- the post-museum, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125–6, 127–8, 131
- Mussgnug, Florian, 14
- Nabugodi, Mathelinda, 14, 16
- Nachawi, Dima, 180, 184
- National Library of Wales, 108
- Nazi propaganda, 206
- Nelson, Cary, 9
- neoliberalism, 66, 68, 70, 89. See also algorithmic resistance (to digital surveillance); higher education: economisation of education
- Nkrumah, Kwame, 75
- Nora, Pierre, 124
- Nottingham University, 87
- Nussbaum, Martha, 1, 3, 17, 69, 70
- Palestine, 67, 68, 72, 74, 75, 77
- Panchatantra, 177
- Parry, Benita, 50, 51
- participatory methodologies, 13, 14, 15
- Ancient Tales for Troubled Times project, 180–1, 183–9
- with heritage industry partners, 14, 108–9, 110–12
- ‘Retelling the Urban Fox: A Collaborative Fairy Tale’, 199–211
- Peckham (South London), 201, 202, 203–4, 205, 206, 211
- Pereira de Almeida, Djaimilia, As Telefones [The Phones] (2020), 47, 57–9
- periodisation, 26, 28–31
- Petrou, Thea, 14
- Phillips, Louise, 208
- place
- fairy tales, 203, 204–5
- local/global interface, 90–5, 113, 180, 188
- research agendas, (place-based and global), 85–90, 95
- Welsh heritage project, 14, 106–12, 113
- Play for Progress, 181, 184, 185–6
- poetry, 15, 17, 71, 72, 94, 184
- Portuguese-language literature, 57–9, 103
- postcolonial literary studies, 8, 9, 15, 30, 35, 49–52
- post-fictional novels, 12, 120, 121, 122–3, 124, 126, 128–31
- the post-museum, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125–6, 127–8, 131
- Prazmari, Vaishali, 180, 184, 185
- premodern world. See medieval era
- prison settings, 15
- Propp, Vladimir, 203
- Proulx, Annie, 93, 94
- public history, 104–5, 104–6, 106, 108–12, 113, 114
- Pückler-Muskau, Hermann von, 106
- quest narratives, 147–8
- Rabe, Bahne, 145
- Ramzanali Fazel, Shirin, Io e l’Islam [Me and Islam], 8
- REF. See Research Excellence Frameworks (REF, UK)
- Refa‘iyah, Yassin, 160, 163
- Research Excellence Frameworks (REF, UK), 15, 179–80
- ‘Retelling the Urban Fox: A Collaborative Fairy Tale’ project, 197, 198, 199–206, 207–8, 209, 210, 211
- Reuter, Gabriele, Das Tränenhaus [The House of Tears] (1909), 3
- Richards, I. A., 48
- Ricoeur, Paul, 5
- Rieger, Branimir M., 138
- Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith, 143
- Roitman, Janet, 17
- Roshdy, Nissmah, La’eb Al-Nard [The Dice Player] (2013), 71, 72, 73
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales, 108, 110, 111, 112
- Rylance, Rick, 2, 102–3, 179
- El-Saadawi, Nawal, A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El-Saadawi, 159, 160, 162
- Said, Edward, 9, 50, 54, 55–6, 60, 73
- Saint Augustine, 32
- Sayer, Faye, 104, 105, 114
- Scego, Igiaba, 8
- Schalansky, Judith, An Inventory of Losses, 127
- Schofield, Benedict, 27, 28
- school settings, 15, 181, 186–7
- Schwan, Anne, 15
- Scott, James C., 75
- self-recognition, 16–17
- Şenel, Aslıhan, 203
- Shohat, Ella, 50, 51
- Simeoni, Evi, Schlagmann [Strokeman] (2012), 145
- Sir John Heron Primary School (Newham), 181, 186–7
- Siti, Walter
- Exit Strategy, 129–31
- Il realismo è impossibile [Realism is Impossible], 128
- Smyers, L., 109
- Spiker, Samuel Heinrich, 111
- Spivak, Gayatri, 12, 89, 91
- Stacey, Jackie, 161, 162
- Stepanova, Maria, In Memory of Memory, 123, 124, 125, 127
- Stuckrad-Barre, Benjamin Von, Panikherz [Panic heart] (2016), 148–9
- Sukenick, Ronald, 167
- Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), 88, 89
- Swales, Martin, 5
- taboo subjects. See cancer (of Arab women)
- Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi, 54
- Tatar, Maria, 198
- Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), 68–9
- technological determinism, 70
- TEF. See Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF)
- time
- comparative literature, 12, 35–6
- conversations between past and present, 178–9, 180
- and environmental change (Wetlands Times project), 92, 93, 94
- periodisation, 26, 28–31
- pre-modern theories of, 32–3
- in a transnational approach, 7
- translation (linguistic), 7, 12, 35
- and heritage tourism, 110–11, 113, 114
- illness narratives, 146
- Kalila wa Dimna, 177, 181
- medieval literature, 36
- Stepanova, Maria, In Memory of Memory, 123
- world literature, 91
- transnationality, 7–8, 37
- decolonial studies, 53
- digital literary forms (in the Arab world), 73
- eating disorders in men, 141–2
- and politics of periodisation, 26, 27–31
- postcolonial theory, 50
- in public history and heritage tourism projects, 104, 109, 110, 113
- Troscianko, Emily, 144
- Tsing, Anna, 91, 95
- Tuttiett, Sonia, 180, 186, 187, 188–9
- UKRI (UK Research and Innovation), 85, 86, 87, 88
- United Kingdom. See also English Studies (UKHE curricula)
- British museum, 119
- collaborative research, 15
- eating disorders, 140
- economisation of higher education, 68–9, 86
- healthcare, 143, 145
- interdisciplinary research, 11–12
- place-based and global challenge research agendas, 85–9, 95
- Research Excellence Framework (REF), 15, 179–80
- Welsh heritage project, 14, 106–12, 113
- Wetland Times project, 92–5
- United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 88, 89
- United States of America
- book bans, 3
- Capitol riots (2021), 29
- humanities, devaluation of, 68, 69, 70
- literary scholarship and medicine, 146
- male illness narratives, 138, 141–2
- museum deaccession, 120–1
- universities. See higher education
- Wales, 14, 106–12
- Walsh, Kevin, 127
- Wappi, Bernhard, Darüber spricht man(n) nicht …! [Men Don’t Talk About This …!] (2005), 141, 146
- Ward, Celia, 180
- al-Ward, Namaa, 166
- Wasafuli al-Sabr [I Am Waiting for You] (Hamdar), 160, 161, 164–7, 168–70, 171
- Washburn, Wilcomb, 122
- Wasserman, Sarah, 123–4, 125
- Watson, Cate, 200
- Weltliteratur/world literature, 91–2
- Wenzel, Jennifer, 91–2
- Wetland Times project, 92–5
- Williams, Raymond, 48
- Willman, Kate, 120
- Woolf, Virginia, 138, 146
- world literature/Weltliteratur, 91–2
- Wu Ming, 120