Literary Theory

The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timel...

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers Doris Les...

First published in 1979, this volume is an old-spelling, critical edition of a comedy by Robert Armin, written between 1598 and 1606, a period span...

The aphorism captures a huge amount of truth, meaning or wit in a very short statement. It has been used and studied from classical times to contem...

Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of ...

Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular a...

Title first published in 2003. 'Weber is probably the only person in his generation who is equally at home in and directly informed about contempor...

Rachel Carsons 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides i...

Hannah Arendts 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the ki...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

This volume enacts a project we term a politics of form, working to politicise the formal analysis of narrative in novels, life narratives, documen...

In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the tyrant by entrie or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ...

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops ...

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops ...

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume bring...

Thomas Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be seen, without exaggeration, as a landmark text in intellectual history. In his analysis...

This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir's and Sartre's most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutsch...

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history o...

We live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing, and distribution are mor...

Originally published in 1990 by Routledge, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from h...

Crisis and Criticism is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist ...

An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century.At the turn of the twentieth ce...

This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other c...