Literary Theory

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...

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,...