Literary Theory

Paul de Man is often associated with an era of high theory, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading c...

Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establis...

Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus demonstrates how a fractal imagination helps one hold the form of a poem within the rea...

Grounded in the literary history of early modern England, this study explores the intersection of cultural attitudes and material practices that sh...

Emile Durkheims 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to...

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vi...

This book places Benjamins writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any a...

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume bring...

For over two hundred years, the Gothic has remained fixed in the European and American imaginations, steadily securing its position as a global cul...

This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature...

This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamins and Theodor Adornos essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together,...

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary the...

What did she say? Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written b...

Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great work on the symbolic powers of kingship is a fine...

Making and Seeing Modern Texts explores the poetics of texts through a close reading and analysis across the genres of poetry, drama, fiction, non-...

Anaïs Nin: A Myth of Her Own traces Nins literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details...

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradburys Elliott family stories are a unique...

A sad and corrupt age, a period of crisis and upheavalwhat T.S. Eliot famously summed up as the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contempor...

The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual at large, and...

Originally published in 1973, Gulliver and the Gentle Reader critically examines the writing of Jonathan Swift. The book is predominately concerned...

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating no...

This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions...

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wildes public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing. Thro...

Drawing on insights from literary theory and analytical philosophy, this book analyzes the intersection of law and literature from the distinct and...

Ive never kept a journal, Roland Barthes declared in 1979, or, rather, Ive never known if I should keep one. The form itself, he continued, was i...

Anaïs Nin: A Myth of Her Own traces Nins literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details...

This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affe...

New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite, Singular, Exposed offers new approaches to the modernist subject and its relation ...

This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technol...

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vi...

This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefini...

The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both o...

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents th...

This collection features leading literary critics and explores the role of language in thinking about the ways in which the world might be otherwis...

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on g...

This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge ...

This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats. Coming 150 y...

Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliber...

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-centurys most innovative thinkers and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered m...

This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature...

Title first published in 2003. 'Weber is probably the only person in his generation who is equally at home in and directly informed about contempor...

Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of modernist and postmode...

This book consists of the study of five Brazilian novels produced in the last decades of the nineteenth century: O mulato (1881), O cortigo (1890),...

Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing...

Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing...

Sidney Homan defines a pivotal line as a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play a magnet to which the rest of the play...