Literary Theory

By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse ...

Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guid...

Mythologies is a masterpiece of analysis and interpretation. At its heart, Barthess collection of essays about the mythologies of modern life treat...

Poetica et Metrica 2.One of the most fascinating aspects of the poetics of multilingualism is that it reveals national literatures to be an outcome...

This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardners 1930 The Arthurian Legend in I...

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetor...

This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators...

Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle''s Poetics , the first ...

The Doubling: Those Influential Writers That Shape Our Contemporary Perceptions of Identity and Consciousness in the New Millennium examines pairs ...

Since 9/11, war literature has become a key element in American popular culture, spurring critical debate about depictions of combat--Who can wr...

Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through women''s literary representations of death Provides the first sustained...

Argues that Shakespeare transforms philosophies of comedy and melancholy by revising them concomitantlyIconic as Hamlet is, Shakespearean comedy sh...

A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary ...

Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in humanitiesThis volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines th...

This book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, ...

Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independenc...

Common Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, worke...

This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It expl...

Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernismIn the British Museum, one object attract...

Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylisticsHow do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at o...

Introduces the full range and depth of the early 20th-century European avant-gardesThis engaging introduction outlines the cultural and political c...

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...

This major new collection of texts by Helene Cixous brings together a range of important untranslated as well as four previously unpublished essays...

This book reflects on the figure of veering to form a new theory of literature. Contrary to a widespread sense that literature has become increasin...

This book collects 10 years of Peggy Kamuf's writing on the work and friendship of Jacques Derrida. This study discusses the key aspects of Derrida...

Diasporic Identities and Empire: Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes explores traditional theories on hybridity, generated in consideratio...

The question of the relation between the visual and the textual in literature is at the heart of an increasing number of scholarly projects, and in...

This book explores the origins of American literary deconstruction in the light of the work of Russian philosopher Mikhail M. Bakhtin. To do so, th...

From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid chan...