Literary Theory

Refiguring in Black is a meditation on black life, and a meditation on the questions and concerns with which black life is confronted. It takes the...

Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demo...

This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, r...

Can anyone say anything that has not already been said about the most scrutinized text in human history? In one of the most radical rereadings of t...

This book considers William Wordsworths use of iconography in his long poem The Excursion. Through the iconographical approach, the author steers a...

Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently des...

This collection of essays addresses a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmanns most significant works, examining them through the lens of transgressi...

Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the ...

Amid radical transformation and rapid mutation in the nature, transmission, and deployment of information and communications, Around the Book offer...

A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucers House of Fame, Sheila Delanys elegant and innovative study of Chaucers Legend of Good Women explores what ...

Faulkner said that Life is motion and that The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so tha...

A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucers House of Fame, Sheila Delanys elegant and innovative study of Chaucers Legend of Good Women explores what ...

T. V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political actionand between political action and literary theory. What can the new lite...

T. V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political actionand between political action and literary theory. What can the new lite...

Why do Shakespeares texts resonate so powerfully for us in the 21st century, 400 years after he wrote and produced them? Why is he more popular to...

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing...

Perhaps as old as writing itself, the metaphor of the book as child has depicted textuality as an only son conceived to represent its father unifor...

Perhaps as old as writing itself, the metaphor of the book as child has depicted textuality as an only son conceived to represent its father unifor...

Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the spatial turn in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henr...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and K...

Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under...