Literary Theory

Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining w...

Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining w...

This volume studies the literary voices of the Italian diaspora in Britain, including 21 authors and 34 pieces of prose, verse, and drama. This boo...

In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectu...

In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectu...

In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of somethi...

The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a bridge language affects world...

The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a bridge language affects world...

This book redirects attention to a truth largely ignored by recent criticismthat Shakespeares excellence as a playwright is inextricable from his e...

Global Arab Fiction explores twenty-first-century fiction set in north and east Africa, the Gulf, the Arab east, and diaspora, showing diversity an...

Global Arab Fiction explores twenty-first-century fiction set in north and east Africa, the Gulf, the Arab east, and diaspora, showing diversity an...

Aristotles Metaphysics is a collection of essays on a wide range of topics, almost certainly never put together by Aristotle himself. This helps to...

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

Sarah Kirsch (1935-2013) zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichterinnen. Erfolgreiche Lyrikbände wie Zaubersprüche und Erlkönigs Tochter...

This book is an intervention in Hamlet scholarship. In Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885), Nietzsche famously posited the death of God, taken to mean th...

The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature provides an invaluable resource for those interested in deepening their understanding of the variety of...