Literary Theory

This volume argues that, given a Western propensity to identify Shakespeares work with the human, his drama plays a crucial and constitutive part...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming C...

What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of languages ability to ...

Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with li...

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

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

Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argue...

Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jamesons remarkable contributi...

The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in Romantic and post- Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and art. Invention...

Utopian writing offers a fascinating panorama of social visions; and the related forms of dystopia and anti-utopian satire extend this into the ran...

Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous. As an avowed theory head...

Against the backdrop of ever-increasing nationalist violence during the last decade of the twentieth century, this book challenges standard analyse...

What one cannot compute, one must poetize: this essay theorizes the extraordinary regimes of human mental experience by putting the emphasis on poe...

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

Figures emerge from movement. We live and think in figures. This monograph pursues the literary, theological, and philosophical traces of the conc...

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

The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts. In the 1980s, faced wit...

Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on plural...

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve bein...

Futures examines the relevance of futures studies to literary studies. It demonstrates how the growing interest in futures thinking is opening up m...