Literary Theory

The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant field of Black Cana...

People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical de...

People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical de...

The Hidden D. H. Lawrence is a new study of the psychological and literary aspects of a great writers lyrical genius. It explores how Lawrence, whe...

Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes bluntly derogatory reception in the press. Since the...

Medieval literature is to a large extent based on oral tradition and permeated by various forms of orality: literary texts were commonly read aloud...

This collection links the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus in particular is on m...

The concept that oral history can give voice to people or allow hidden voices to become part of history is one of its most celebrated achievements....

Unter dem Begriff Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiel oder Tabletop-Rollenspiel wird eine Form des Gesellschaftsspiels verstanden, in dem eine Gruppe von Sp...

Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theoryThe Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major t...

Die Geschichte der Ästhetik verzeichnet das Verhältnis von high und low, also von Hoch- und Populärkultur, als ein streng antagonistisches. Anderer...

Von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart wird erzählerisches Handeln immer wieder durch bildhafte Ausdrücke veranschaulicht, die den Erzähler in logikwi...

First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look at the way language is used in th...

What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues tha...

The concept of fabulation makes a late appearance in Deleuze's career and in only limited detail, but by tracing its connections to other concepts ...

Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies. Discussing canonical modernist writers such as ...

Beginning amidst the tombs of the 'dead' God, and the crematoria at Auschwitz, this book, newly available in paperback, confronts the Nietzschean l...

Auf der Grundlage einer allgemeinen textphänomenologischen und -theoretischen Bestimmung des Phänomens einer poetica scientiae versucht die vorlie...

How to grasp poetry in its contemporary digital situation, a situation wherein poetry travels across digital and analoge media platforms and inten...

Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theoryThe Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major t...

This anthology collects texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art, translations, critical fragments, research plans, i...

Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad's complex relationship with languageJoseph Conrad was, famously, trilingual in Polish, French and English,...