Literary Theory

Introduces the most important terms for understanding literature, past and present.Literature Now argues that modern literary history is currently ...

This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies ...

First published in 1984, John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination is informed not only by an enthusiasm for Bunyan but by an understanding of the lite...

Brown proposes a theory of poetic metaphor that attempts to account for literature's complex role in the discovery and creation of significant patt...

Love and Depth in the American Novel seeks to change how we think about the American love story and how we imagine the love of literature. By exami...

First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, and the interplay of fictional and non-fictional patters in what is his o...

Love and Depth in the American Novel seeks to change how we think about the American love story and how we imagine the love of literature. By exami...

This collection of essays demonstrates how novels are not only comparable, but often superior to the case histories used in business education. As ...

In Modernist Poetry and the Limitations of Materialist Theory, Charles Altieri skillfully dissects the benefits and limitations of Materialist theo...

Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-k...

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contempor...

This collection of essays demonstrates how novels are not only comparable, but often superior to the case histories used in business education. As ...

Section 1 of this volume describes three major debates about voice. They include: * the overarching debate: discourse as text vs. discourse as voi...

Tracing the origins of how we think about strangers to the Victorian period, Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830– 186...

Literature and Poverty offers an engaging overview of changes in literary perceptions of poverty and the poor. Part I of the book, from the Hebrew ...

Using a critical lens derived from ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, this book explores the relationships Madeleine L’Engle develops for he...

The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked...

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary dialogue that reveals what diffe...

Originally published in 1999, Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque is the first fully interdisciplinary study of the subject and examine...

Thomas Pynchon’s style has dazzled and bewildered readers and critics since the 1960s, and this open access book employs computational methods from...

Originally published in 1987 Barnaby Rudge is a comprehensive collection of bibliographical resources surrounding Dickens fifth novel Barnaby Rudge...

Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly c...

Originally published in 1986, this is a powerful and original book. It offers textual interpretation of Conrad’s major work and articulates the sub...

In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls “illibe...

Written specifically with the student in mind and focusing on a number of well-known texts, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nicholas Nickleby, ...

Global Crusoe travels across the twentieth-century globe, from a Native American reservation to a Botswanan village, to explore the huge variety of...

Modes of address are forms of signification that we direct at living beings, things, and places, and they at us and at each other. Seeing is a form...