Literary Theory

In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Re...

African-language writing is in crisis. The conditions under which African writing developed in the past (only remotely similar to those of Western ...

By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in w...

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Co...

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first c...

First published between 1932 and 1940, this is a three-volume study of the historical development of literature. It explores the oral and written l...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Engaging, brilliant' Guardian'A talkative, tender meditation' Financial Times'Every novelist will want to ...

Drawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships bet...

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 ...

The Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur is the only work of any length which does full justice to comedy in the 17th century as a serious dramatic...

Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the ...

A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling. But the unexpected overturning of narrative progress creates complexity and in...

John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his la...

An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in t...

The grotesque in contemporary British fiction reveals the extent to which the grotesque endures as a dominant artistic mode in British fiction and ...

John Ruskin (18191900), one of the leading literary, aesthetic and intellectual figures of the middle and late Victorian period, and a significant ...

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic c...

How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that addresses problems of ...

Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. An essential collection of texts reflecting ...

Hardcore bibliography meets Antiques Roadshow in an illustrated exploration of the role that cheap reprints played in Jane Austen's literary celebr...

Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialis...

Examines representations of the law in colonial and postcolonial fiction from and about Nigeria Imagined States examines representations of the law...

How the Civil War endures in American life through literature and culture.Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award's Montaigne MedalThe American Civil Wa...

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of ...

These 13 original essays engage with Rancire's accounts of literature from across his work, putting his conceptual apparatus to work in acts of lit...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a l...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange objectstr...

This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions. The book portrays Bakhtin...

This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions. The book portrays Bakhtin...

Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings ...

A concise and authoritative survey of the Welsh- and English-language literatures of Wales from the earliest period up to the present day. This ill...

Ireland's experience in the nineteenth century was quite different from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in differing forms li...