Literary Theory

Poststructuralism has long been acknowledged to offer a radical critique of the foundational subject as a precursor to affirming a constituted subj...

This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to...

Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africas changing literary terrains Step...

Interspatiality is a book about the language, theory and practice of a literary geography that takes as its subject matter the inseparability of wr...

This book undertakes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural interrogation of the Global South  through  the  prisms  of  media  and  cultural  stu...

How modernist interartistic experimentation and the proliferation of new media technologies inspired fresh insights into poetry Isobel Palmer spotl...

Returns us to Gertrude Steins theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Steins plays as radio and mus...

Returns us to Gertrude Steins theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Steins plays as radio and mus...

This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which app...

This book brings into conversation geographically diverse theorists to question the meaning, purpose, and place of conceptual borders in philosophy...

CRASH! explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonf...

CRASH! explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonf...

Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studiesAfter the linguistic and the...

When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over-like this world, and some of the people in it.In 1819, t...

Stories are everywhere, from fiction across media to politics and personal identity. Handbook of Narrative Analysis sorts out both traditional and ...

Tison Pugh examines the intersection of narratology, ludology, and queer studies, pointing to the ways in which the blurred boundaries between game...

Unpacking the popularity and metaphor of the multiverse in media and popular culture, this book explores how the concept of alternate realities and...

Unpacking the popularity and metaphor of the multiverse in media and popular culture, this book explores how the concept of alternate realities and...

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of ...

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings al...

This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close read...

Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, Tiffany Beechy's timely and engaging study provides a critical reassessment of Old English...

Poetics of the Iconotext makes available for the first time in English the theories of the respected French text/image specialist, Professor Lilian...

Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Rosa Mucignat takes a fresh look at the relationship between representatio...

In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the int...

This book contributes to various political debates about Central Europe in terms of its literary-symbolic geography. The author contends that the r...

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the Eng...

Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. ...

Blue Extinction in Literature, Culture, and Art examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity loss, bringing together crit...

Originally published in 1929, The Process of Literature is a study of the art of letters considered from a new point of view, as a process of human...