Literary Theory

This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discourse grammar, through the unique environ...

The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to write a novel, as Matthew Cla...

The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to write a novel, as Matthew Cla...

This collection of essays explores the life and works of the British poet and author of short stories Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). It represents the ...

A guide to managing data in the digital age.Winner of the ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award by the Association for Library Collections & Tech...

Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western domi...

Best-sellers are the books that sell well, are read by large numbers of people, and are widely talked about in the media and among readers. Yet the...

Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and scholars who either passionately ...

How do we talk meaningfully about the sacred in contexts where conventional religious expression has so often lost its power? Inspired by the influ...

Live performance has changed poetry more than anything else in the last hundred years: it has given poets new audiences and a new economy, and it h...

The standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the prototypical absurdist thinker. Such a reading freezes Camus at the stage at which h...

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting, and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, S...

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chainsart included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and sup...

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chainsart included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and sup...

Reading John Milton is a guide to Miltons writings written for students, teachers, and readers everywhere seeking to approach this major figure in ...

Reading John Milton is a guide to Miltons writings written for students, teachers, and readers everywhere seeking to approach this major figure in ...

Originally published in 1956, this scholarly study of Spensers poetry shows how the conceptions of his earlier work in complaints, visions and past...

First published in 1979, Texts and Contexts identifies those classics of Roman literature which deserve to survive because of their intrinsic quali...

There is a growing interest in studying narrative discourse as experimental values laboratory, both reflecting social values and participating in ...

Why do people wear shirts with the Shakespeare quote to be or not be? or a portrait of philosopher Slavoj iek? How does popular and mass media adap...

The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inhibiting factor. The lite...

Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative. However, whi...

Art = New Vision. This formula shaped the avant-garde. With moving images abruptly expanding the boundaries of the visible world, new printing tech...

Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. A co-founder o...

Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. A co-founder o...

This book charts the development of creative writing, bringing it from China to the world. As the second volume of Chinese Creative Writing Studies...