Literary Theory

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...

Although Mikhail Bakhtins study of the novel does not focus in any systematic way on the role that translation plays in the processes of novelistic...

What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, S...

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of disposse...

Mourning Freud analyses Freuds experiences and theories of mourning as the basis for exploring changes in psychoanalytic theories and practices ove...

First Place Winner in Non-Fiction from the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's bea...

A thoroughly updated edition of the witty and engaging exploration of the history, application, and tenets of literary theory. The first edition ...

Literatures, Cultures, Translation presents a new line of books that engage central issues in translation studies such as history, politics, and ge...

How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes? How can we design the digital medium in a way that ...

Flat Aesthetics seeks to secure a more granular and ontologically demotic handle on the contemporary in American literature. While contemporaneity ...

Combining literary criticism and theory with anthropology and cognitive science, this highly relevant book argues that we are fundamentally shaped ...

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of disposse...

This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of par...

Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential authors in contemporary humanities, exerting a deep fascination for students and garnering scholarly...

The Suicidal State theorizes a biopolitics of suicide by mapping the entwinement between the Progressive-Era discourse of race suicide and period r...

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of app...

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of app...

Geschichte wird erzählt lässt sich als Konsens in der geschichtstheoretischen Diskussion über die Darstellung von Geschichte festhalten. Darüber, ...

Die im Kontext der Angewandten Linguistik verortete Arbeit befasst sich mit den transtextuellen rhetorischen Strategien, mit denen Agrarindustrie u...

This book critically examines how the production and reception of performed poetry has changed in the wake of digitalization. The interdisciplinar...

Der Band nimmt Thomas Manns Arbeiten über Goethe, Schiller, Wagner, Shaw, Kleist und Platen erstmals in einen zusammenhängenden Blick. Rüdiger Görn...

Die interdisziplinäre Studie untersucht Lyrik, die in städtischen Räumen zu sehen oder zu hören ist. Aus literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive i...

Although Wolfgang Iser is one of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, there is no authoritative study about his oeuvre...

In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a macroscosmic journey of the indiv...

This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of sixteenth-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less s...

Artists, Writers and Philosophers on Psychoanalysis presents eclectic interviews with leading figures in their fields, focusing on the impact psych...

Artists, Writers and Philosophers on Psychoanalysis presents eclectic interviews with leading figures in their fields, focusing on the impact psych...

The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant field of Black Cana...

People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical de...

People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical de...

The Hidden D. H. Lawrence is a new study of the psychological and literary aspects of a great writers lyrical genius. It explores how Lawrence, whe...

Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes bluntly derogatory reception in the press. Since the...