Literary Theory

'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family me...

In this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture''s emergent ''cinematicity'' as a key creative driver of Joyce''s experimental fiction, sho...

A feminist classic.Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book ReviewA pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.Carolyn ...

Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and cul...

In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores films connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise an...

Presents an exhaustive catalogue of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume includes sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of wh...

u201cAll art and the love of art,u201d Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of the deeply personal Musings on Mortality, u201callow us to negate...

Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works fr...

What does political agency mean for those who don't know what to do or can't be bothered to do it? This book develops a novel account of collecti...

Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of ou...

Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right...

Through readings of an array of recent texts - literary and popular, fictional and autofictional, realist and experimental - this book maps out a c...

Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the experience of literature. This v...

Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory. From the twelfth to the fift...

Cho Dong-Il's History of Korean literature, translated by Charles La Shure, traces the development of Korean literature from its beginnings in pale...

This book begins to recover the global history of solidarity as a principle of authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-1983) as an exemplar and readi...

The Age of Silver advances a horizontal method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early real...

Fictional character is an ontologically ambivalent category -- at once a formal construct and a quasi-person -- which lies at the heart of the life...

This critical work asks whether the formation of a poet's oeuvre must involve artistic aberration. With introductory statements exploring the natur...

The term culture has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shi...

From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performan...

In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret locates models for recovering the variety of futures imagined within some of our most foundational literature. Thes...

Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat ...

Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often ...