Literary Theory

How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book tra...

In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published wo...

For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguabl...

Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today - `the Great Books debate - providing a superbly formulated moderate stance b...

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Ren...

Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial...

This outstanding collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism, and history from a variety of theor...

These twenty autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, art...

Minrose Gwin's lyrical meditation on material, textual, and cultural space in women's literature covers a varied terrain, encompassing how space is...

From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s ...

Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today - `the Great Books debate - providing a superbly formulated moderate stance b...

This outstanding collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism, and history from a variety of theor...

Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? The claim has been widely circula...

Against the two dominant ethical paradigms of continental philosophy–Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics of the Other and Michel Foucault’s ethics of self-cu...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Our sense of smell is crucial to our surv...

Space, place and mapping have become key concepts in literary and cultural studies. The transformational effects of postcolonialism, globalization,...

Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for s...

In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published wo...

This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize re...

A woman turns into a piece of furniture (Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest); a writer of children's books takes photos of naked little girls (Lewis Car...

Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial...

The years from 1890 through 1935 witnessed an explosion of print, both in terms of the variety of venues for publication and in the vast circulatio...

WINNER, 2021 HTI BOOK PRIZE Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United State...

Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Ma...