Literary Theory

An argument that humanists have the toolsand the responsibilityto mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensif...

Postcolonial Servitude explores how a new generation of contemporary global, transnational, award-winning writers with origins in India, Pakistan, ...

The Refugee Woman explores the Partition of Bengal in 1947, in its relationship to gender, by innovatively engaging with the cultural imagination o...

Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture...

This is a book about contemporary literary and artistic entanglements: word and image, media and materiality, inscription and illustration. It prop...

Is laughter a sin? Or is it mans best medicine? Is laughter now trivialised, mechanised or even weaponised by contemporary media? This book explore...

Is the American West in Sergio Leones spaghetti westerns the same American West we find in Douglas Couplands Generation X? In Jim Jarmuschs movies?...

What is criticism? And where is it to be found? Thinking about literature and the visual arts is found in many places - in treatises, apologies, an...

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at T...

This book explores the world of psychogeographical walking as portrayed in zines self-made, low-budget publications circulated within DIY communit...

Dieses Buch bietet einen kritischen Überblick über zeitgenössische Weltfragen in der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Es präsentiert spezifische ...

This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America. Using reception theory, the work analyzes the co...

This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three women writers, published from 1986...

This book offers a new critical perspective on emerging and alternative spaces for emancipation within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and que...

Post Anthropocenes: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Posthuman Ecocriticism explores three distinct yet interrelated approaches to understanding the s...

Obwohl eines der prominentesten Themen literarischer Texte, fand das Reisen in der Literaturwissenschaft lange Zeit wenig Beachtung. Stärker in den...

ENGEver since Karl Jaspers's axial age paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman histo...

This book is a personal narrative chronicling the life and experiences of Shireen Hunter, an Iranian woman who came of age during a transformative ...

Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psy...

Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern...

Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is ...

This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural and educational theorist, a...

A timely and significant contribution to Palestinian childrens literature from 1967 to the present day, Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern C...

This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field of Irish studies to explore the significance of twenty-first-century Irish writing and...