Literary Theory

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life...

A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thoug...

Hayden White is widely considered to be the most influential historical theorist of the twentieth century. The Ethics of Narrative brings together ...

Awareness Inside Language is the most comprehensive discussion of poet-artist George Quasha's axial poetics as it plays out in his work of the past...

Nietzsche and Irish Modernism demonstrates how the ideas of the controversial German philosopher played a crucial role in the emergence and evoluti...

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years...

What is the difference between the I of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American...

Augustine, Pertile and Zwicker celebrate the work of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in the quatercentenary year of his birth, combining the best histor...

Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time. ...

Contextualises Muriel Spark's writings in the tradition of Christian existentialism and its insistence on 'being towards death'This bookproposes th...

'A woman's defiant fight to write.' ObserverBeing categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more ...

The early Stuart funeral elegy was a copious and digressive genre, and exceptional deaths pressed elegists to stretch beyond the usual rhetoric of ...

Un petit homme seul arpente les fictions de Jean Muno (1924-1988) depuis sa piece radiophonique eponyme. Sous son apparence d''anti-heros, plus...