Literary Theory

In Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the s...

I. A. Richards is an influential figure in literary criticism but has rarely been thought of as someone who laid the foundations for cognitive styl...

If the people of Israel understood themselves to share a common ancestry as well as a common religion, how could a convert to their faith who did n...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Exits are all around us. They are the di...

The Novel of Human Rights defines a new, dynamic American literary genre. It incorporates key debates within the contemporary human rights movement...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory was a PROSE Award finalist. The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is the...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In an election year, political signs can ...

In today's increasingly electronic world, we say our personality traits are "hard-wired" and we "replay" our memories. But we use a different metap...

What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England i...

Can you write a novel in a year? If you simply sit back and think about the enormity of writing a book, it will seem like a vast and unconquerable ...

Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for ...

In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on b...

Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan explores convergences and divergences in the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, wi...

Michael Payne introduces the principal writings of Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault and Louis Althusser by means of a detailed focus on their commo...

More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very ho...

Hearing Things is a meditation on sound’s work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have p...

“I died at Auschwitz,” French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts, “and nobody knows it.” Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness develops a new ...

In today's increasingly electronic world, we say our personality traits are "hard-wired" and we "replay" our memories. But we use a different metap...

Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues th...