Literary Theory

An argument that humanists have the toolsand the responsibilityto mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensif...

Postcolonial Servitude explores how a new generation of contemporary global, transnational, award-winning writers with origins in India, Pakistan, ...

The Refugee Woman explores the Partition of Bengal in 1947, in its relationship to gender, by innovatively engaging with the cultural imagination o...

Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture...

This is a book about contemporary literary and artistic entanglements: word and image, media and materiality, inscription and illustration. It prop...

Is laughter a sin? Or is it mans best medicine? Is laughter now trivialised, mechanised or even weaponised by contemporary media? This book explore...

Is the American West in Sergio Leones spaghetti westerns the same American West we find in Douglas Couplands Generation X? In Jim Jarmuschs movies?...

What is criticism? And where is it to be found? Thinking about literature and the visual arts is found in many places - in treatises, apologies, an...

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at T...

This book explores the world of psychogeographical walking as portrayed in zines self-made, low-budget publications circulated within DIY communit...

Dieses Buch bietet einen kritischen Überblick über zeitgenössische Weltfragen in der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Es präsentiert spezifische ...

This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America. Using reception theory, the work analyzes the co...