Literary Theory

How we build our invisible libraries Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on h...

This study examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. Wright creates a provocative discourse in whic...

Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher e...

Was versteht man unter «Wirklichkeit»? Diese Frage ist eines der zentralen Themen der philosophischen Tradition und wird gerade in der heutigen Med...

Wenn die beiden bekanntesten deutschsprachigen Schriftsteller ihrer Generation Alterswerke vorlegen, die sich in wesentlichen Aspekten ähneln, weis...

Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the mo...

Platons Spannungsverhältnis zu Dichtung und Rhetorik bewegt sich zwischen Kritik und eigenem Rückgriff auf diese Bereiche. Im Mittelpunkt der Unter...

Thomas Paine’s 1791 Rights of Man is an impassioned political tract showing how the critical thinking skills of evaluation and reasoning can, and m...

In an era when poetry as a cultural force in the West appears to be waning, Telling Rhythm presents a hopeful and invigorating new approach to read...

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on g...

Warum streiten sich auf dem Höhepunkt der absolutistischen Machtentfaltung im 17. Jahrhundert zwei Parteien in der Académie française? Die Querelle...

Ce travail se veut une contribution au questionnement critique de la modernité du roman. L’analyse minutieuse de l’exploration que Hermann Broch fa...

Die 1806 postum erschienene Vita Vittorio Alfieris zählt zu den bedeutendsten Autobiographien des 18. Jahrhunderts. Dabei zeichnet sie sich vor all...

Das moderne chinesische Gedicht seit 1917 entwickelte sich besonders schnell in der Begegnung der westlichen poetischen Ideen und der traditionelle...

More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the arti...

The connection between speech and writing in human language has been a matter of philosophical debate since antiquity. By plumbing the depths of th...

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 ...