Literary Theory

This is the first survey of Murdochs exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives. The study de...

This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The historical range of the n...

It has been over two decades since the publication of the last major edited collection focused on psychoanalysis and early modern culture. In Shake...

Sublime Subjects explores two fundamental questions: what is the start of humanity? When and how does a newborn child become a subject? These are r...

The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been ...

Narratives of Womens Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological t...

Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives represents an exploration of the dynamic intersections between mobility, space, and...

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, De...

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic traditi...

This book traces literatures long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, material effects. It brings this tradition...

Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory is a pioneering book that offers a fresh perspective on Arabic, Per...

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (19272001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as rural (grameen) fiction in Marathi in the...

In earlier work Patrick Colm Hogan argued that a few story genresheroic, romantic, sacrificial, and othersrecur prominently across separate literar...

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories al...

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories al...

This volume addresses the notions of violence, care and cure within the medical encounter and seeks to foreground their ambiguity, whether individu...

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Miltons epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of ...

As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth centurys most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates ...

Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining w...

Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining w...

This volume studies the literary voices of the Italian diaspora in Britain, including 21 authors and 34 pieces of prose, verse, and drama. This boo...

In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectu...

In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectu...

In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of somethi...

The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a bridge language affects world...

The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a bridge language affects world...