Literary Theory

This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola incorporate medical knowl...

Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques fo...

This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international 'war on terror' rhetoric. It u...

This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the...

Modernist Mythopoeia argues that the experimental modernist form of mythopoeia was directed towards expressing a range of metaphysical perspectives...

This title offers a Marxist take on a selection of artistic and cultural achievements from the rap music of Tupac Shakur to the painting of Van Gog...

This volume raises questions about why oral celebrations of language receive so little attention in published literary histories when they are simu...

Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and ...

In this volume, scholars from a wide range of fields within the humanities explore the links between space and place and their relation to cultural...

Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philo...

Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, this study examines the inhe...

This collection explores how new directions in feminist literary study might be informed by the work of the past. It offers a snapshot view of new ...

Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in rela...

Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American black women since 1980, including A...

The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a...

Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate time, space, and material thin...

In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards...

Suzanne Rintoul identifies an important contradiction in Victorian representations of abuse: the simultaneous compulsion to expose and to obscure b...

Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to children and youth, eac...

An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottis...

This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of structuralism: Lacan, Alt...

Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new media content, which serve to...

Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses ? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about the Danish cartoons? This book ...

Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new media content, which serve to...

Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century. T...

Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book...

This fascinating collection draws together perspectives on the future of writing in publishing, journalism and online sites. Discussion ranges acro...

This book explores the paradoxical productivity of the idea of the end of the novel in contemporary fiction. It shows how this idea allows some of ...

Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medi...

Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek M...

This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in whic...

Focusing on piracy in the seventeenth century, filibustering in the nineteenth century, intracolonial migrations in the 1930s, metropolitan raciali...

Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana critically examines selected works of writers, from the sixth century to the twenty-first century, who were...

Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultura...