Literary Theory

This book presents my concept of poetic thinking in the context of debates around the anthropological question, that is what is being human?, build...

This book analyses regional expressions of the queer experience in texts available in the Indian vernacular languages. It studies queer autobiograp...

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a ra...

Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling a...

This book on modern and contemporary Irish theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex ...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

While the it-narrative, the thing-poem and thing theatre have been around for some time, the essay which is often considered literatures fourth ge...

Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone childrens and Young Adult literature from the ...

Embracing a rich diversity of voices, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of Anthropocene naturecultures in the desert biomes of the ...

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to...

Following the narratives explored in Hominescence, Incandescent and The Bough, Michel Serres continues and concludes his 'grand story' of humanity ...

Following the narratives explored in Hominescence, Incandescent and The Bough, Michel Serres continues and concludes his 'grand story' of humanity ...

This book offers a cutting-edge interpretation of the philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling by critically reconsidering the interpretations of some of his...

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over the past 30 years, the fields ...

J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction illuminates the intellectual and philosophical interests that drive Coetzees writing. In doing so, it makes ...

Claudia Brodsky marshals her equal expertise in literature and philosophy to redefine the terms and trajectory of the theory and interpretation of ...

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

Storying Plants in Australian Childrens and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the represen...

The purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The purpose of that creative practice ...

While many of Freuds original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such a...

The poetry of Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies represents a second golden age of Greek literature. The eminence grise of poetic circles w...

Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with li...

Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrat...

Modernism and Its Environments surveys new developments in modernist studies inspired by ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Taking a fr...