Literary Theory

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of ...

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of ...

In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were task...

This book presents a systematic elaboration on Chinese literature and its criticism, with special reference to introducing the predominant role of ...

An innovative and accessible overview of how ancient Scandinavians understood and made use of their mythological stories. Old Norse Mythology pro...

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies...

This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project that provide...

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of subversive acts or te...

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

Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intr...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us ...

Claudia Brodsky skillfully combines close readings of narrative works by Goethe, Austen, Balzac, Stendhal, Melville, and Proust with a detailed ana...

This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded...

Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature How does literary objecthood contend with the challenge of writing...

Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persis...

For years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the...

Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently des...

I read Peter Y. Paiks lucid, graceful, ruthless book in one single astonished sitting. I scarred it all over with arrows and exclamation points, so...

It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the las...

For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the mythopoetic thinking that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, es...

Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukács-Bakhtin the...

A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fictionNow praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian ...

The first comprehensive look at how Victorian fiction and British psychoanalysis shaped each otherNovel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Fr...

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticisms emphasis on peda...

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticisms emphasis on peda...

This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukacs through the early Frankfurt School up to cur...

Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time reveals the fundamental, constitutive role of the temporal dimensions of waiting in colonial regimes of time...

How a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text.The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient g...

Children grow up surrounded by stories, motifs, characters and themes which respond to the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages in Children's Literature ex...

As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings i...

Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and ...

Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism analyses novels of the late 20th and early 21st centuries that explore ethnic and cultural diversity in L...

Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an account of the poet's life, along with a critical reading of his work, that is designed to close what has b...

Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England examines assumptions about what a lost play is and how it can be talked about; how lost plays can be reconstruc...

The Gothic and the Everyday aims to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition. By usin...