Literary Theory

The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a m...

When more than 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young, competitive gymnasts, th...

Why do we read, and have we always read in the same way? Reading: A cultural practice uses a rich variety of literary and visual sources to explore...

The grotesque in contemporary British fiction reveals the extent to which the grotesque endures as a dominant artistic mode in British fiction and ...

El presente libro cierra una serie de tres volumenes encaminados a profundizar en distintos aspectos de la narrativa espanola memorialista. Si bien...

Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection know...

Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosoph...

Despite the 'materialist turn' in modernist studies, the extent and depth of D. H. Lawrence's engagement with the literary marketplace has not been...

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

Many of Bob Dylan's most well-known works date from the 1960s, and can be seen as critical indicators of the changes in American society then an...

Explores Victorian writers' erotic investment in statuesTheorises the function of the sculptural body in Victorian poetry and proseOffers thorough ...

Hlne Cixous chronicles the last six months of her mother's life, transgressing the mother-daughter relation in the experience of dyingMother Homer ...

Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity...

The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers...