Literary Theory

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...

Medieval literature is to a large extent based on oral tradition and permeated by various forms of orality: literary texts were commonly read aloud...

This collection links the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus in particular is on m...

The concept that oral history can give voice to people or allow hidden voices to become part of history is one of its most celebrated achievements....

Unter dem Begriff Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiel oder Tabletop-Rollenspiel wird eine Form des Gesellschaftsspiels verstanden, in dem eine Gruppe von Sp...

Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theoryThe Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major t...

Die Geschichte der Ästhetik verzeichnet das Verhältnis von high und low, also von Hoch- und Populärkultur, als ein streng antagonistisches. Anderer...

Von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart wird erzählerisches Handeln immer wieder durch bildhafte Ausdrücke veranschaulicht, die den Erzähler in logikwi...

First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look at the way language is used in th...

What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues tha...

The concept of fabulation makes a late appearance in Deleuze's career and in only limited detail, but by tracing its connections to other concepts ...

Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies. Discussing canonical modernist writers such as ...

Beginning amidst the tombs of the 'dead' God, and the crematoria at Auschwitz, this book, newly available in paperback, confronts the Nietzschean l...

Auf der Grundlage einer allgemeinen textphänomenologischen und -theoretischen Bestimmung des Phänomens einer poetica scientiae versucht die vorlie...

How to grasp poetry in its contemporary digital situation, a situation wherein poetry travels across digital and analoge media platforms and inten...

Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theoryThe Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major t...

This anthology collects texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art, translations, critical fragments, research plans, i...

Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad's complex relationship with languageJoseph Conrad was, famously, trilingual in Polish, French and English,...

We know William Shakespeare matters but we cannot pinpoint, precisely, why he matters. Lacking reasons why, we do our best to involve him in others...

This study focuses on Anthony Trollope's stylistic innovations in relation to Victorian liberalismIn his biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, ...

Breaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of ...

Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africas changing literary terrains Step...

Examining a range of contemporary Anglophone texts, this book opens up postcolonial and transcultural studies for discussions of visuality and visi...

This edited volume identifies and analyses the Eco-Weird as an interdisciplinary theoretical tool for engaging in fictional, philosophical, filmic,...

Celan gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts und sein Einfluss auf Literatur, Kunst und Musik ist unumstri...

People of all times and in all cultures have produced and consumed fiction in a variety of forms, not only for entertainment, but also to spread kn...

This volume, now with a substantial new Introduction, represents one of the most lucid, compact and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstru...

This handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology and is now available in a second, comple...

Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team of rese...

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, begi...

In den letzten Jahren hat sich die Petrofiction als eine neue Strömung der Gegenwartsliteratur herausgebildet. Diese hat in der ökologisch orientie...

How does one read a foundational postcolonial writer in English with declared Indian subcontinent roots? This book looks at ways of reading, and un...