Literary Theory

This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnati...

In the aftermath of the efflorescence of experimental literature and theory that characterized the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75), contemporary French...

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

An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genresThe literary l...

This book explores the work of the late-medieval English writer Thomas Hoccleve. It highlights Hoccleves role, throughout his works, as a religious...

French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post-structuralist movement in twentieth-century l...

In Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity, William Kuskin asks us to reconsider the relationship between literary form and histo...

The postCivil Rights era was marked by an explosion of black political thought and aesthetics. Reflecting a shifting horizon of expectations around...

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

What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and comm...

What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by ...

Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its ...

Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Who speaks? The author as producer, th...

Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful. Yet this expansion of our readi...

Demonization has increasingly become central to the global religious and political landscape. Passing Orders interrogates this centrality through a...

Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily planand every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business pr...

Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be d...

Just as the explosive growth of digital media has led to ever-expanding narrative possibilities and practices, so these new electronic modes of sto...

In the antebellum years, the Western worlds symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved in...

What if fairy-tale characters lived in New York City? What if a superhero knew he was a fictional character? What if you could dispense your own ju...

From Platos Symposium to Hegels truth as a Bacchanalian revel, from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent rel...