Literary Theory

Walter J. Ongs classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their...

Balancing key foundational topics with new developments and trends, Engagements with Narrative offers an accessible introduction to narratology. As...

In Greek and Latin, tropes () are generally defined as variations from a linguistic and stylistic norm (), either for stylistic purposes or for ne...

In his early years in Wolfenbüttel, Lessing published a series of writings about philosophy and religion directed against Enlightenment theology. T...

Pierre Chaunu sprach 1971 noch vorsichtig von der Herausbildung von lEurope des Lumières. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später ist längst zu fragen: Aufkl...

Das mittelhochdeutsche Nibelungenlied findet in der skandinavischen Völsungenüberlieferung mehrere Entsprechungen. Diese Texte der nordischen Held...

The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability identifies a common concern in French queer works for the materiality ...

Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound ...

Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound ...

_Allegorical Moments_ is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to s...

Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and th...

The Vortex That Unites Us is a study of totality in Russian literature, from the foundation of the modern Russian state to the present day. Conside...

Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contempo...

In Benjamins Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamins notoriously opaque work, Origin of t...

Some contemporary approaches to literature still accept the separation of historical, biographical, external concerns from formal, internal ones. O...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an ess...

The founder of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure inaugurated semiology, structuralism, and deconstruction and made possible the work of Jac...

An intimate and exhilarating journey through the world of books by the internationally celebrated author In this major collection of his essays, Al...

This groundbreaking study offers an innovative critical analysis of poetry as a resource for reflective practice in the context of continuing profe...

The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by genre. It contains a total of 761...