Literary Theory

Love on the Dole (1933), the iconic novel about 1930s British working-class life, has a significant place in British cultural history. Its author, ...

Henry Crabb Robinson (17751867) earned his place in literary history as a perceptive diarist from 1811 onwards. Drawing substantially on hitherto u...

Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this...

Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism. Literature is a ...

This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris's vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucau...

Aktuell ist Wald in öffentlichen Diskursen zentral, verbunden mit einer Re-Mythisierung, die zum einen als Effekt einer ökologisch bedingten Krise ...

In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the tyrant by entrie or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ...

Situated at the intersection of affect studies, ecocriticism, aesthetics, and Romantic studies, this book presents a genealogy of love in Romantic-...

The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature sets Tolkiens theory of Fantasy against the...

This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian lyric and its translations in...

Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a ...

Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a ...

A lively and illustrated inquiry of how children's literature reflects the curious mind of a childnow available in paperback.Outstanding Academic T...

Ellipsen stellen eine sprachliche Form dar, die wiederkehrend und mit erkennbaren ästhetischen Funktionen in literarischen Texten vorzufinden ist. ...

Why does an author set their story where and when they do? How do you describe places and make them real for your reader? Why might you build contr...

With typical rhetorical flourish and beholden to paradox, Roland Barthes defines his work on myth as an attempt to define things; and yet he is kno...

Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their ma...

This collection explores Gissings place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise how late-Victorian spatial a...

Bringing together academics from Romania, the USA, Spain and Turkey, this volume follows the evolution of detective fiction, from its early forms d...

Begun in 2010 as part of the Histories of Literatures in European Languages series sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Associatio...

This book brings together several major essays on foundational topics of narrative studies and the theory of fictionality by one of the preeminent ...

This collection of essays revises contemporary trauma theory, from Freudian/Caruthian and post-structuralist perspectives. While Western trauma the...

Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The ...

A fictional manual to help disrupt todays all-too-real energy and climate emergencies The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) is a collaborative...

Elizabeth Gaskells writings abound in references to a cultural materiality encompassing different types of fabric, stuffs, calicoes, chintzes and f...

Trotz der Dominanz des Audiovisuellen in unserer Zeit sind das Bilderbuch und das illustrierte (Kinder-)Buch zu einer ungeahnten künstlerischen Höh...

This book is a collection of essays written in honour of Eamon Maher. The essays all speak to issues which Eamon has worked on, so there are pieces...