Literary Theory

In this title, originally published in 1950, the author has set out to give a description and a critical assessment of the most important (not nece...

2024 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins PrizeSlow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities investigates how the experience of slowness in contemporary ...

This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK. By uniquely combining critica...

When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time...

When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time...

What if political rhetoric is unavoidable, an irreducible part of politics itself? In contrast to the familiar denunciations of political horse-tra...

First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartess wri...

Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. How could they redefine their culture...

From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both s...

Narrative practice has come under attack in the current post-truth era. In fact, many associate narrative hermeneutics--the field of inquiry concer...

Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature   Before the First World ...

Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association Winner, 2018 German St...

Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays presents a defense of universalism as the foundation of moral and political arguments and commitments. Con...

Literature is an important vehicle to further knowledge of other cultures, and English translations of Okinawan literary works have had a major imp...

This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of B...

Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic...

Positions the sensation novel, and nineteenth-century popular fiction more generally, as vital to the history of feeling Argues for the literary s...