Literary Theory

Das Anegenge ist ein frühmittelhochdeutscher geistlicher Text, der unikal in der Wiener Sammelhandschrift 2696 überliefert ist. Thematisch stehen v...

Early modern women writers left their mark in multiple domains--novels, translations, letters, history, and science. Although recent scholarship in...

In The Limits of Autobiography, Leigh Gilmore analyzes texts that depict trauma by combining elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history...

This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing rhetorical criticism. L...

The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity's alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambr...

The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531), is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literary genres. It was one of the primary sources of l...

In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musiciansHi...

Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research...

Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research...

er Schwerpunkt des Bandes 51 liegt auf der Analyse einer Reihe literarischer Texte, die sich thematisch und inhaltlich unterscheiden. Dazu gehören ...

This book offers a theory of ekphrasisthe literary description of an artworkfrom the perspective of Visual Culture studies. A theory of ekphrasis m...

No overall history of the philosophical dialogue has appeared since Rudolf Hirzel's two-volume study was published in 1895. In The Philosophical Di...

Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arab...

This book grows out of a longstanding fascination with the uncanny status of the mother in literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, film, and photog...

Defective Institutions overturns the basis of institutionalism. Faith in classic institutionsexposed as clamorously inadequate by the failure of go...

In Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity, William Kuskin asks us to reconsider the relationship between literary form and histo...