Literary Theory

Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have been enriching Irish literature...

Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value o...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Anti-Empire explores how...

First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study...

The purpose of this book is to present to scholars, students and enthusiasts in the fields of literature and linguistics a way to study a text anal...

Emotion and Postmodernism: is it possible to imagine an odder couple, stranger bedfellows, less bad company? The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film ...

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a char...

Bridging modernist studies and science fiction scholarshipModernism and Time Machines places the fascination with time in canonical works of twenti...

The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. Reference...

This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T. S. Eliot’s writings of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly Four Quar...

The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Conceal...

This book seeks to develop a novel approach to literature beyond the conventional divide between realism/formalism and history/aestheticism. It acc...

The book presents contributions to the 2012 conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English in which scholars of various f...

What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric ...

Reified Life addresses the most pressing political question of the 21st century: what forms of life are free and what forms are perceived legally a...

This book is an anthology of landmark essays in rhetorical criticism. In historical usage, a landmark marks a path or a boundary; as a metaphor in ...

Who are we today? That deceptively simple question continued to be asked by the French historian and philosopher, Michel Foucault, who for the last...

What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric ...

Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and… brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoan...

First published in 1986, this title critiques the canonical view of Milton as an isolated Great Man, and reassesses the impact of the Puritan Revol...

The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the...

The idea that reading literature changes the reader seems as old as literature itself. Through the ages philosophers, writers, and literary scholar...