Literary Theory

Über den afrikanischen Kontinent wurde in den europäischen Literaturen von der Epoche der europäischen Expansionen bis zur Gegenwart viel berichtet...

Skirting the Ethical offers highly original readings of six works, each noted for its politico-ethical stance. The first four (Sophocles' Antigone,...

Bisher waren alle neueren Editionen der Poetik des Vida auf die autorisierten Editionen gestützt; die cremonische aus dem Jahre 1550 (C) oder die r...

Auf seinem Aventiurenweg lernt der Artusheld Erec, Mitgefühl mit dem Leiden anderer zu empfinden. Am Anfang dieses Weges steht allerdings für ihn d...

This book seeks to develop a novel approach to literature beyond the conventional divide between realism/formalism and history/aestheticism. It acc...

Die Arbeit zeigt, wie die Divina Mimesis Pasolinis und die Ästhetik des Widerstands von Peter Weiss intertextuell auf die Divina Commedia zurückgre...

New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social scienc...

"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best descr...

The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and...

This volume addresses the issue of freedom in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. This is all the more challenging in that Deleuze-Guattari alm...

Die Figur der schönen, aber grausamen Prinzessin Turandot hat seit Jahrhunderten die Phantasie vieler Autoren aus verschiedenen Ländern angeregt. D...

Skirting the Ethical offers highly original readings of six works, each noted for its politico-ethical stance. The first four (Sophocles' Antigone,...

Der Autor entwickelt ein übersetzungskritisches Modell, das Elemente aus den verschiedenen übersetzungstheoretischen Ansätzen aufnimmt und zu integ...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming C...

Romanticism After Auschwitz reveals how post-Holocaust testimony remains romantic, and shows why romanticism must therefore be rethought. The book ...

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Ne...

"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best descr...

In Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan examines what makes an individual a particular, unique self. He draws on cognitive and affective science...

In More Than Meets the Eye, Georgina Kleege explores the ways that ideas about visual art and blindness are linked in many facets of the culture. W...

This title was first published in 2001. Derrida's work testifies to the problematic state of contemporary thought. Questioning Derrida offers new e...

What did modernist writers make of the things of war? Often studied for its fascination with the shell-shocked mind, modernist literature is also p...

First published in 1969, this book places Coleridge’s literary criticism against the background of his philosophical thinking, examining his theori...

Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and...

This title includes readings of de Man's critique of aesthetic ideology and the strange 'materiality' that emerges from it. This volume explicates ...

In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing left to say to us. Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it...

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume I of 4, explores the subjects ...

What is "literature?" The answer to this question may seem self-evident to us now. However, the production of literature as a category was in fact ...

Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as ...

In Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phe...

The Gestalts of Mind and Text bridges literary studies and cognitive psychology to provide a unique contribution to the field of Cognitive Literary...

Queering Mayberry: An Exploration of Sexuality and Gender in the Andy Griffith Show is an interdisciplinary study which reexamines The Andy Griffit...

Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a...

Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as ...

Drawing on methodologies pertaining to Digital Humanities, World Literature, and Comparative Literature, the volume aims to challenge some of the e...

Queering Mayberry: An Exploration of Sexuality and Gender in the Andy Griffith Show is an interdisciplinary study which reexamines The Andy Griffit...

What is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and ...

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume 3 of 4 explores the subject of...

Characters - those fictional agents populating the fictional worlds we spend so much time absorbed in - are ubiquitous in our lives. We track their...

What is wrong with 'literary modernism' as a paradigm? One answer is that it is over-written, a kind of 'winner's history' with a relatively narrow...

Logomotives are words that change worlds past, present, and future. Bearing a wide range of linguistic, regional and disciplinary expertise, the v...

The rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century. However, truly well-known and globa...

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally. Organized as a series o...

First published in 1984 Criticism and Objectivity argues that literary critics should not abandon the concept of knowledge. English literary critic...