Literary Theory

Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first sys...

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet....

Narratives are everywhereand since a significant part of contemporary media culture is defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely t...

Theory After Theory provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn abou...

The Lyric Theory Reader collects major essays on the modern idea of lyric, made available here for the first time in one place. Representing a wide...

Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America addresses ...

Can established humanities methods coexist with computational thinking? It is one of the major questions in humanities research today, as scholars ...

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteent...

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteent...

By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing art...

This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with ninete...

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Co...

An introduction to Ezra Pound's work. Alexander shows how he contributed to the modernist movement through his own writing as well as through his i...

This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This stereotyped character appears p...

This book is a full survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present. From Aristotle to iek the focal question has been: why, in s...

Radical alternatives to consent and trauma Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls atte...

In satire, evil, folly, and weakness are held up to ridicule - to the delight of some and the outrage of others. Satire may claim the higher purpos...

This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on 'the sublime', the singular aesthetic response elicit...

Leading scholars examine the history of climate and literature. Essays analyse this history in terms of the contrasts between literary and climatol...

This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up ...

For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and found...

The work of Michel Foucault is much read, widely cited, and occasionally misunderstood. In response to this state of affairs, this collection aims ...

This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful aro...