Literary Theory

In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain, sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert of Ka...

Sexual Antipodes is about how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in p...

Through extensive readings in philosophical, legal, medical, and imaginative writing, this book explores notions and experiences of being a person ...

When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under Joh...

It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject—the self—is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is ...

In The Ideology of Conduct, first published in 1987, scholars from various fields, from the medieval period to the present day, discuss literature ...

Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? The claim has been widely circula...

Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this thought-provoking study explores crucial questions concerning pers...

Wenxin diaolong by Liu Xie (ca. 465-ca. 521) is arguably the most complex and comprehensive work of literary criticism in ancient China. For centur...

Karl Marx is the most important modern philosopher. His work has radically changed the course of world history, continental philosophy, political t...

For at least a decade, university foreign language programs have been in decline throughout the English-speaking world. As programs close or are me...

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the diff...

This book is one of the first collections on a neglected field in American literature: that written by and about the working-class. Examining liter...

Breaking with linearity – the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world – many 20th-century European writers...

In this first book-length study of Czech structuralism and semiotics in English, F. W. Galan explores one of the most important intellectual curre...

This book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centur...

How do the specific circumstances in which we write affect what we write? How does what we write affect who we become? How can we maintain professs...

Marxism has had an enormous impact on literary and cultural studies, and all those interested in the field need to be aware of its achievements. Th...

How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book tra...

In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published wo...

For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguabl...

Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today - `the Great Books debate - providing a superbly formulated moderate stance b...