Literary Theory

Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In...

Modernism was the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. Yet despite its now-secure location in history, the radical ...

Literature cultivates 'deep selves' for whom books matter because they take over from religion fundamental questions about the meaning of existence...

Modernism is fundamentally determined by its relationship to its own notions of style: oscillating between the poles of 'pure' style and 'purely' s...

The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neg...

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ...

What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from K...

This study explores Englishness as a 'symbolic form' from the 1920s to the 1940s. Two case studies, focused on J.B. Priestley and Daphne du Maurier...

Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalization in recent years. This book identi...

A Poiret dress, a Catholic shrine in France, Thomas Wallis's Hoover Factory building, an Edna Manley sculpture, the poetry of Bei Dao, the internal...

In his attempts to define the uncanny, Sigmund Freud asserted that the concept is undoubtedly related to what is frightening, to what arouses dread...

A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for upper undergraduates and postgraduates taking cours...

A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for upper undergraduates and postgraduates taking cours...

The words fear, risk and safety have come to define our contemporary age and have been construed as a dynamic background in the human sciences agai...

Introduction to Afrofuturism delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes, understandings, and interdiscip...

This book is a comprehensive interpretation of the contemporary Romanian writers' contribution to the enrichment of the universal discourse with un...

Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno...

Bringing a poets perspective to an artists archive, this highly original book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Ma...

How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratologi...

The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heideggers entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality....

Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derridas thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published semina...

The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heideggers entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality....

Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derridas thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published semina...

Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountabilitysuch is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the conte...

Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountabilitysuch is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the conte...

Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are represented in poetry...

Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbea...

Sue Short examines how fairy tale tropes have been reworked in contemporary film, identifying familiar themes in a range of genres including rom c...

Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological c...

Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilput...

Implementing a never-before-seen approach to sea literature, American Sea Literature: Seascapes, Beach Narratives, and Underwater Explorations expl...

Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and...

Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this ...

Meta-Narrative in the Movies investigates narrative theory through close analysis of films featuring stories and storytelling. The cinematic interp...

For decades, we have been told we live in the information agea time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and socia...