Literary Theory

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings al...

This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close read...

Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, Tiffany Beechy's timely and engaging study provides a critical reassessment of Old English...

Poetics of the Iconotext makes available for the first time in English the theories of the respected French text/image specialist, Professor Lilian...

Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Rosa Mucignat takes a fresh look at the relationship between representatio...

In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the int...

This book contributes to various political debates about Central Europe in terms of its literary-symbolic geography. The author contends that the r...

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the Eng...

Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. ...

Blue Extinction in Literature, Culture, and Art examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity loss, bringing together crit...

Originally published in 1929, The Process of Literature is a study of the art of letters considered from a new point of view, as a process of human...

Examines the need to recenter the category of sextheorizing sex itself as nonbinaryin contemporary studies of gender and sexuality Gender has large...

Günter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism. None of them has found better ways than his of translati...

Originally published in 1985, this study provides a clear and intelligent introduction to the work of the former Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. The aut...

This book sets out to elucidate Conrads unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engag...

Conversion disordera psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestationsoffers a way to rethink t...

Examines the need to recenter the category of sextheorizing sex itself as nonbinaryin contemporary studies of gender and sexuality Gender has large...

A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeares plays In Shakespearean Issues, ...

As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary research in recent years. ...

Narratives of Injury redescribes the history of injury from the perspective of those most at risk, rather than medical professionals and other outs...

Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature takes advantage of growing critical interest in popular young adult te...

In recent years Seamus Heaney has earned the reputation of being the most important Irish poet since Yeats. In this book, originally published in 1...

Fifty years after the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 decriminalised homosexual acts, Jonathan Dollimore explores, in, through and beyond the gay sub-c...