Literary Theory

Featuring an international team of specialists on the subject, The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the ...

Places the performative gesture at the point of intersection between literature, theatre and cinemaThis new study examines the representation of ge...

Defines the interdisciplinary field of Rural Modernity through analysis of British literature, art and cultureRural Modernity in Britain argues tha...

Bringing together Luce Irigaray's early psychoanalytically orientated writings with her more recent and more explicitly political writings, Irigary...

This book analyses how modern conceptions of ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics are linked through the question of pain. Through a series of rig...

Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like ...

This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty trans...

First published in 1979, Inner Visions discussion the nature of contemporary magical thought encompassing the Tarot and the Qabalah and considers...

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study childrens literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also...

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study childrens literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also...

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entert...

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors t...

Decolonial Animal Ethics in Linda Hogans Poetry and Prose is a plea for an urgent redefinition of human-animal relations on the basis of a nonanthr...

This title was first published in 2000. Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory, this timely co...

Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes ...

This volume is a cross-cultural study of the evolution of civilisation. Drawing its material and inspiration from literature and culture, it looks ...

Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late s...

This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art the naked body.Beginning with reflections on wh...

Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywo...

A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora ...

Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart ...

This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but is instead intentionally engaged...

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained expl...

Milton Friedman was arguably the single most influential economist of the 20th-century. His influence, particularly on conservative politics in Ame...

Charles Darwin called on a broad and unusually powerful combination of critical thinking skills to create his wide-ranging explanation for biologic...

Richard Dawkins provides excellent examples of his reasoning and interpretation skills in The Selfish Gene. His 1976 book is not a work of original...

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion...

Friedrich Hayeks 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global polit...

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five or...

Grounded in the literary history of early modern England, this study explores the intersection of cultural attitudes and material practices that sh...