Literary Theory

On a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in t...

Canadian Literature and Medicine breaks new ground by formulating a series of frameworks with which to read and interpret a national literature der...

This book presents my concept of poetic thinking in the context of debates around the anthropological question, that is what is being human?, build...

This book analyses regional expressions of the queer experience in texts available in the Indian vernacular languages. It studies queer autobiograp...

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a ra...

Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling a...

This book on modern and contemporary Irish theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex ...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

While the it-narrative, the thing-poem and thing theatre have been around for some time, the essay which is often considered literatures fourth ge...

Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone childrens and Young Adult literature from the ...

Embracing a rich diversity of voices, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of Anthropocene naturecultures in the desert biomes of the ...

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to...

Following the narratives explored in Hominescence, Incandescent and The Bough, Michel Serres continues and concludes his 'grand story' of humanity ...

Following the narratives explored in Hominescence, Incandescent and The Bough, Michel Serres continues and concludes his 'grand story' of humanity ...

This book offers a cutting-edge interpretation of the philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling by critically reconsidering the interpretations of some of his...

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over the past 30 years, the fields ...

J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction illuminates the intellectual and philosophical interests that drive Coetzees writing. In doing so, it makes ...

Claudia Brodsky marshals her equal expertise in literature and philosophy to redefine the terms and trajectory of the theory and interpretation of ...

Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fieldings forgery of an actors biography, the book contends that s...

Storying Plants in Australian Childrens and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the represen...

The purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The purpose of that creative practice ...

While many of Freuds original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such a...

The poetry of Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies represents a second golden age of Greek literature. The eminence grise of poetic circles w...

Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with li...

Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrat...

Modernism and Its Environments surveys new developments in modernist studies inspired by ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Taking a fr...

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...

Although Mikhail Bakhtins study of the novel does not focus in any systematic way on the role that translation plays in the processes of novelistic...

What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, S...

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of disposse...

Mourning Freud analyses Freuds experiences and theories of mourning as the basis for exploring changes in psychoanalytic theories and practices ove...

First Place Winner in Non-Fiction from the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's bea...

A thoroughly updated edition of the witty and engaging exploration of the history, application, and tenets of literary theory. The first edition ...

Literatures, Cultures, Translation presents a new line of books that engage central issues in translation studies such as history, politics, and ge...

How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes? How can we design the digital medium in a way that ...

Flat Aesthetics seeks to secure a more granular and ontologically demotic handle on the contemporary in American literature. While contemporaneity ...

Combining literary criticism and theory with anthropology and cognitive science, this highly relevant book argues that we are fundamentally shaped ...

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of disposse...

This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of par...

Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential authors in contemporary humanities, exerting a deep fascination for students and garnering scholarly...

The Suicidal State theorizes a biopolitics of suicide by mapping the entwinement between the Progressive-Era discourse of race suicide and period r...

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of app...

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of app...

Geschichte wird erzählt lässt sich als Konsens in der geschichtstheoretischen Diskussion über die Darstellung von Geschichte festhalten. Darüber, ...

Die im Kontext der Angewandten Linguistik verortete Arbeit befasst sich mit den transtextuellen rhetorischen Strategien, mit denen Agrarindustrie u...

This book critically examines how the production and reception of performed poetry has changed in the wake of digitalization. The interdisciplinar...