SubjectsLiterature & Literary Studies / Theoretical literature & literary studies

Children’s Literature Across Media: Concepts and perspectives of transmedia narratives

Edited by Nina Christensen, Ute Dettmar and Sarah Mygind

This volume presents interdisciplinary research on children’s texts and media, transmedia storytelling and transmediality across production, artefacts, and reception.Based in international, interdisciplinary research, the chapters explore a wide range of transmedia narrative phenomena. They… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 21] 2026. ix, 231 pp. + index

Other subjects Narrative Studies

Geopolitics and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Edited by Giuliana Fenech and Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

This volume explores how literature for young readers shapes and is informed by the geopolitical realities of our world. Bringing together perspectives from across the globe, the volume shows how children’s and YA texts foster young people’s agency by engaging with national identity, conflict,… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 18] 2026. ix, 229 pp. + index | open access

The Moving Canon(s) of Slavic Children’s Literature

Edited by Mateusz Swietlicki, Dorota Michułka and Zofia Zasacka

This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of children’s literature and culture, who apply various theoretical perspectives to capture transcultural and interdisciplinary links between global and local canons. The chapters are divided into three thematic clusters: School… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 20] 2026. xxiii, 249 pp. + index | open access

Nordic Literature: A comparative history: Volume II: Figural nodes

Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Nathaniel Kramer, Christopher Oscarson, Linda Haverty Rugg and Karin Sanders

Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a two-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 38] 2026. xix, 914 pp. + index | open access

Other subjects Comparative literature & literary studies | Germanic literature & literary studies

Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson

Edited by Clara Neary, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell

Practising Stylistics marks the career of Professor Paul Simpson, a leading figure in the discipline of stylistics, and one who embodies the practical and rigorous linguistic analysis of literary works and social discourse. A prominent figure in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) since… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 45] 2026. xv, 281 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation

Edited by Sabina Amanbayeva, Olga Blackledge and Elena Goodwin

The edited volume Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation provides an innovative perspective on animation from the region as a transcultural phenomenon that was influenced by a complex interplay of international and internal processes. Covering the 1930s to the 2010s, it… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 19] 2026. xiii, 292 pp. + index

Other subjects Communication Studies | General studies in art & art history