Literary Theory

There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting f...

China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a model of economic and political strength, viewed by many as the greatest empire in the worl...

Portrait photography increased in popularity during the modernist period and offered new ways of seeing and understanding the human face. This book...

This book delves into the unconventional perspectives of writers and artists from Twentieth Century Bengal, exploring their roles as 'plant thinker...

The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory is the first scholarly book from the humanities on the subject of the Gren...

Speakers and learners, based on memory and experience, implicitly know that certain language elements naturally pair together. However, they also u...

In 1932, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued the resolution On the Restructuring of Literary and Arts Organizations. This resolutio...

The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the romanticising...

The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the 20th-century, in an accessible resource for students and...

The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the 20th-century, in an accessible resource for students and...

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agency in...

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and prob...

Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canadas central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony eve...

The emergence of social change in the daily lives of English society appeared most noticeably through the Romantic-era response of human emotions t...

This book brings together essays that ask how one may chart more productive engagements with the methodological foundations of literary studies, a ...

In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future...

A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde.   In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-gard...

Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, and author, was an inspired critic. Forms of Attention is based on a series of three lectures he g...

International interest in the work of Avital Ronell has expressed itself in reviews, articles, essays, and dissertations. For Fighting Theory, psyc...

In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future...

The book of Job and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland may not seem like natural bedfellows at first, but both have become literary classics by lifti...

Die Schriften Rahel Levin Varnhagens (17711833) sind ästhetisch und thematisch komplex. Sie umfassen kleine Formen, u.a. Aphorismen und Lektürerefl...

This book challenges two of the most commonly held assumptions about Samuel Beckett. First, that he belongs exclusively to a literary tradition and...

This book explores core issues in the emerging field of World Anglophone Studies. It shows that traditional frameworks based on the colonial and im...

This book explores core issues in the emerging field of World Anglophone Studies. It shows that traditional frameworks based on the colonial and im...

This book explores Iris Murdoch as a philosopher who, through her distinctive methodology, exploits the advantages of having a mind on the borders ...

Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis expands postcolonial precarity studies by addressing the current climate crisis and threats to the h...

First published in 1974, European Drama of the Early Middle Ages stresses the distinctive variety of the dramatic traditions, both secular and reli...

This monograph considers the formal vitality of lyric in the face of anxieties about linguistic agency across the corpus of the British poet, W. S....