Literary Theory

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...

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 ...