Literary Theory

Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency Accents the importance of the body in Beckett and ...

Explores Beckett's engagement with various technologies throughout his artistic career Approaches the topic of technology from multiple perspectiv...

Philosophical thinking is interrupted by the finitude of what cannot be named, on the one hand, and that within which it is subsumed as one of mult...

Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, The Elusive Brain is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary litera...

Almost immediately after jazz became popular nationally in the United States in the early 20th century, American writers responded to what this ex...

Periodizing contemporary fiction against the backdrop of neoliberalism, After Critique identifies a notable turn away from progressive politics amo...

While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for readi...

Literary Interventions in the Campaign Biography considers campaign biographies written by major authors including Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dea...

Hamid Dabashis 2007 Iran: A People Interrupted is simultaneously subtle, passionate, polarizing and polemical. A concise account of Iranian history...

Mary Wollstonecrafts 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Often considere...

Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (18971979), and the immense potential of his ide...

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

What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being cri...

Desire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristevas essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, in...

Seldom has a royal court invited such intensive study as that of Henry VIII, or become so prominent in popular culture. Nonetheless, Intercultural ...

Seldom has a royal court invited such intensive study as that of Henry VIII, or become so prominent in popular culture. Nonetheless, Intercultural ...

How did creative genius develop in tandem with the criminalization of Blackness in the early United States?In Criminal Genius in African American a...

This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as...

In Probability Designs, Karin Kukkonen proposes a new perspective on the complex role of predictions and probabilities in the dynamics of literary ...