Literary Theory

Bakhtin and his Others aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtins ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakht...

What happens to books as they live in our long-term memory? Why do we find some books entertaining and others not? And how does literary influence ...

Disabling Characters provides detailed analyses of selected young adult (YA) novels and short stories. It looks at the relative agency of the disab...

This book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as ...

This book examines the concept of the gaze in the context of narrative fiction. It argues that the gaze in fiction is a tractable factor, identifyi...

The study of self-realization as a primary literary theme covers a wide range of literature. The journey to self-discovery can be represented in ma...

This volume presents a collection of papers from the 1st edition of the InternationalConference for Young Philological Researchers on New Methodolo...

Getting the Blues: Vision and Cognition in the Middle Ages is an interdisciplinary study of medieval color. By integrating scientific and literary ...

Das Anthropozän mit der Idee der systemischen Zusammenhänge von Mensch, Technologie und Umwelt ist durch Komplexität und disproportionale Skalierun...

This is the first work in English to explore Manchukuo literature in its entirety. It provides comprehensive, in-depth, and thought-provoking resea...

A Saxon of St. Bonifaces acquaintance in England observed that the two peoples, the English and Saxons, were of the same bone and blood. Certainly ...

In its first edition, this book was a new opening in the study of the Arabian Nights as an index of literary taste, a case study for the engagement...

This book interrogates the concept of the subject in the poem, against the broader background of literary-theoretical issues related to the lyric s...

The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanisaw Lem. The first part contains an analysis and interpretation of one of his early works, The D...