Modern Languages and Cultures: A Handbook

The Handbook offers the first systematic overview of key transformations of Modern Languages Studies (MLS) in the present century and explores how new framing concepts – ‘the transnational’, ‘the global’, ‘the world’, ‘the planetary’, ‘the local’ – modify entrenched notions of nationhood. It not only analyses new approaches to the study of humanity across body and mind, discourse and matter, the normal and the pathological but also looks at new perspectives on humanity’s subdivisions across...