Many people throughout the world" inhabit" imaginary worlds communally and persistently,
parsing Harry Potter and exploring online universes. These activities might seem …

Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai
have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and …

This book is a study of the narrative techniques that developed for two very popular forms of
fiction in the nineteenth century-ghost stories and detective stories-and the surprising …

This study investigates some of the previously unrecognized reading, writing and sharing
trends emerging across Asian-born popular digital webtoon and webnovel platforms. These …

Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text
breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender …

This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination
with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the …

This article draws on a range of models from language studies, particularly from linguistic
pragmatics, in order to elucidate patterns in the production and reception of irony in its social …

Ghosts, spectres, and spirits and the stories told about them have long been a source of
intellectual inquiry; they appear to be everywhere in scholarly discourse yet are largely …

This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of
nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière …

Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle
has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the …