Literary Theory

Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers, spies, fugitives and outs...

In this volume, we approach the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically and theoretical...

How do stories change the way we see both ourselves and the world? That question is the starting-point of this accomplished new contribution to nar...

In A Shaping Joy (originally published in 1971), Cleanth Brooks writes about modern literature and the criticism that has been developed to deal wi...

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Energy Transition is not only one of the most daring technological endeavours of the present, it is also its new master narrative. This open access...

First published in 1992, The Inward Gaze looks at mens fantasies and self-images from a wide range of texts (notably boys superhero comics, moderni...

First published in 1992, A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage brings together the most important and significant critical response to the poetry of...

Gérard Genette zufolge ist die literaturtheoretische Bestimmung des Titels problematischer als bei den anderen Elementen des Paratextes. Der Band s...

Though Ortons roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Shaw, Carroll, Firbank, Feydea...

In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative....

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures refutes the Anglocentrism of much literary criticism of the global South by examining Indian Liter...

This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the f...

In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are th...

This edited volume discusses the topic of immersion, approaching it from the perspective of various media and stakeholders: experiencers and creato...

Mario Vargas Llosa is a heterogeneous writer whose positions have often not been consistent from novel to novel, between his fictional and nonficti...

Mario Vargas Llosa is a heterogeneous writer whose positions have often not been consistent from novel to novel, between his fictional and nonficti...

A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of m...

This book offers an explorative analysis of the intersections between Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault that challenges the prevailing notion of in...

Der Literaturnobelpreisträger von 1929: Thomas Mann gehört zu den produktivsten, wichtigsten und wirkungsreichsten deutschsprachigen Autoren der Mo...

This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to All-in-Allness. Its chapters unfold some o...

This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that n...