Literary Theory

The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever mediumprint, audio text, video recording, digital exchangemeans that it may transfer into new times ...

A reader may be in a text as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought--both possessing and being possessed by it. This p...

Inventing Agency addresses some of the most central and pressing concerns in criticism, theory, and philosophy today. As new metaphysics of the rea...

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory i...

This book is a collection of essays that reflect the desire and determination guiding many practitioners and researchers as they work together in m...

Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature Nathan Gorelicks The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between...

Ridiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critics mixed and complex role. ...

The book explores finite and nonfinite clausal verb complementation in World Englishes. It provides an assessment of the influence of language cont...

Reveals the historical impact of dream rhetoric on Chinese modernity and nation-buildingRealism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Ch...

Deals in a comprehensive, but succinct way with poets who wrote of sex and love. It covers Greek and Roman poets, the Troubadours of Provence and a...

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of ...

Academic literacy used to be considered a complex set of skills that develop automatically as a by-product of academic socialization. Since the Bol...

Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt...

Comics have always embraced a diversity of formats, existing in complex relationships to other media, and been dynamic in their response to new tec...

Anekdotisches Erzählen nimmt gegenüber dem Roman als zentraler Gattung der Frühromantik in der politisch zugespitzten (nach-)napoleonischen Phase e...

Rhetorik ist seit ihren Anfängen dem Vorwurf der Manipulation ausgesetzt, gegen den schon in der Antike eine Rhetorik im Dienst der Vernunft aufgeb...

The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean challenges the structural opposition of indigeneity and creolisation through a his...

Diese literaturgeschichtliche Arbeit führt erstmals auf breiter Quellenbasis den empirischen Nachweis, dass Leser/-innen beim außerwissenschaftlich...