Literary Theory

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...

The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timel...

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers Doris Les...

First published in 1979, this volume is an old-spelling, critical edition of a comedy by Robert Armin, written between 1598 and 1606, a period span...

The aphorism captures a huge amount of truth, meaning or wit in a very short statement. It has been used and studied from classical times to contem...

Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of ...

Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular a...

Title first published in 2003. 'Weber is probably the only person in his generation who is equally at home in and directly informed about contempor...

Rachel Carsons 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides i...

Hannah Arendts 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the ki...

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

This volume enacts a project we term a politics of form, working to politicise the formal analysis of narrative in novels, life narratives, documen...

In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the tyrant by entrie or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ...

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops ...

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops ...

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume bring...

Thomas Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be seen, without exaggeration, as a landmark text in intellectual history. In his analysis...

This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir's and Sartre's most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutsch...

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history o...

We live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing, and distribution are mor...

Originally published in 1990 by Routledge, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from h...

Crisis and Criticism is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist ...

An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century.At the turn of the twentieth ce...

This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other c...

An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century.At the turn of the twentieth ce...

Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different and even opposed philosophi...

Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different and even opposed philosophi...

New reading of contemporary feminisms and the short storyThe short story has received renewed attention and notable popular acclaim in the twenty-f...

A collection of essays on Dylan Thomas, reading culture and his place in modernist studiesReclining quietly with a book; an ear glued to the Hi-Fi;...

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the connections between memory and literature. Organized into six interrelated sections, the book ...

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

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matterCacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Read...

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matterCacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Read...

Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvins paradigmatic model of science fiction, acc...

Explores critical and creative responses to the contemporary poetry archiveProvides an innovative new dialogue between critics and creative writers...

The first full-length study of modern technologies in late-Victorian New Woman writingThis book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relati...