Literary Theory

The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social critique in twentieth- and ...

Metafiction explores the great variety and effects of this popular genre and style, variously defined as a type of literature that philosophically ...

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

Poetry, or poisis, has long been understood as a practice of making. But how are experiments in the making of poetic forms related to formal making...

Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis presents a dialogue between psychoanalysis and folktales from the Greek oral tradition, many of which have never...

Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis presents a dialogue between psychoanalysis and folktales from the Greek oral tradition, many of which have never...

This volume considers Samuel Becketts fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Kei...

This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamins and Theodor Adornos essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together,...

This book presents a range of perspectives on the way language, diversity, and identity are reflected in New Zealand childrens literature, based on...

This book presents a range of perspectives on the way language, diversity, and identity are reflected in New Zealand childrens literature, based on...

The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore provides a wide-ranging survey of the oral traditions of the Slavic and East European worl...

Der Wille zur Wiederholung behandelt die Faszination eines Widerspruchs: Er richtet sich an alle, die in der Freizeit, bei der Lektüre von Literatu...

Sidner Larsons Captured in the Middle embodies the very nature of Indian storytelling, which is circular, drawing upon the personal experiences of ...

Dieses Handbuch stellt das erste Nachschlagewerk zur Weltliteratin Friederike Mayröcker dar, die in ihrer enormen Produktivität ein nahezu unübersc...

Pacific Literatures as World Literature is a conjuration of trans-Pacific poets and writers whose work enacts forces of becoming oceanic and sugges...