Literary Theory

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic traditi...

This book traces literatures long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, material effects. It brings this tradition...

Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory is a pioneering book that offers a fresh perspective on Arabic, Per...

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (19272001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as rural (grameen) fiction in Marathi in the...

In earlier work Patrick Colm Hogan argued that a few story genresheroic, romantic, sacrificial, and othersrecur prominently across separate literar...

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories al...

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories al...

This volume addresses the notions of violence, care and cure within the medical encounter and seeks to foreground their ambiguity, whether individu...

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Miltons epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of ...

As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth centurys most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates ...