Literary Theory

This innovative exploration of the recurring use of particular objects in Samuel Beckett's work is the first study of the material imagination of a...

This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England an...

The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 19452010 provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and ...

A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volum...

This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 20...

Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is...

An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.Before borders determined who belonged in a count...

An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.Before borders determined who belonged in a count...

The author analyzes and discusses the socio-historical meanings and implications of Pedro Henríquez Ureña's (1884-1946) writings on language. This ...

Stealing Things traces the representations of thieves and thievery in nineteenth-century French novels. Re-reading canonical texts by Balzac, the C...

Winner of the 2014 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association. Theories of power...

While much has been written about the impact of Darwins theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the scie...

Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project suggests that space can become a storyteller: if so, plenty of fleeting stories can be read in the space of moder...

The author analyzes and discusses the socio-historical meanings and implications of Pedro Henríquez Ureña's (1884-1946) writings on language. This ...

Literary Revisionism places Bloom, his ally Geoffrey Hartman, and their contemporary literary situation in a borad historical and theoretical conte...

Berlin in the 1920s was a cosmopolitan hub where for a brief, vibrantmoment German-Jewish writers crossed paths with Hebrew and Yiddishmigrant writ...

What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that i...

Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that ...

Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical in order to account for their capacity to seize ones life. Rat...

Literary Revisionism places Bloom, his ally Geoffrey Hartman, and their contemporary literary situation in a borad historical and theoretical conte...