Literary Theory

Frantz Fanons explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless exposé of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fan...

Thomas Paines 1776 Common Sense has secured an unshakeable place as one of historys most explosive and revolutionary books. A slim pamphlet publish...

The 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers clearly demonstrate the vital importance of the art of persuasion. Written between 1787 and 1788 ...

For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic ...

Fanon, postcolonialism and the ethics of difference offers a new reading of Fanons work challenging many of the reconstructions of Fanon in critica...

In the final decade of the eighteenth century, theatre was amongst the most important sites for redefining France's national identity. In this stud...

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion...

Deconstructing Hegemony is mainly informed by the deconstructionist approach, as it unravels literature, theory, and history writing, in addition t...

The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cu...

In The New Philosophy of Universalism Nicholas Hagger outlined a new philosophy that restates the order within the universe, the oneness of humanki...

Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Usin...

Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Usin...

A dazzling account of the development of American cultural hegemony from one of the world's leading literary theorists. Franco Moretti, acclaimed a...

In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed...

Roberto Schwarz is the foremost literary critic of his generation in Brazil and the most important Marxist practitioner in the tradition of the Fra...

Provides a cultural history and political critique of Scottish devolutionProvides thefirst critical history of Scottish devolutionOffers the first ...

A wide-ranging study of shifting temporalities and their literary consequences in twentieth-century fictionFrom the Prime Meridian Conference of 18...

Argues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'This thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein's life and...