Title: The Metaphor of the Threshold
Subtitle: In Literary and Cultural Studies
Subject Classification:  Literature and Literary Criticism, Society and Culture, Politics and Government  
BIC Classification: DSB, JFC, HBTB
BISAC Classification: LIT006000, SOC022000, LIT000000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Nov 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-189-1
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-190-7

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Description

While the 'spatial turn' has productively reoriented critical discourse towards geography and mapping, this interdisciplinary collection explores the rich metaphoric potential of the threshold. The image of the threshold—as a site of passage, transition, and liminality—is invested with profound meaning across the literary imagination, media, and historiographic discourse. Contributors analyze the threshold trope in diverse contexts, from the intermedial experiments of visual fiction and the chronotopes of Beat poetry to the urban landscapes of T.S. Eliot. Contributions nvestigate how this potent metaphor shapes our understanding of postnational, postcolonial, and environmental issues. Chapters explore the 'City Upon a Hill' as the threshold of American exceptionalism, nineteenth-century African American preaching as a nascent feminist movement, the poetics of postnational transition, and the environment as a threshold of extinction. *Metaphor of the Threshold* is an essential reference for scholars and students in literary and cultural studies, offering new pathways for understanding moments of critical passage in art and society.

Biography

Editor(s):  Saloua Karoui-Elounelli is an accomplished scholar specializing in parodic literature, Postmodern metafiction, and American narrative fiction. Her research critically engages with issues of poetics, aesthetics, and ethics. Her work has been published in leading international journals, including *The Comparatist* (2024), *Arizona Quarterly* (2024), and *Comparative American Studies* (2026).

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