Literary Theory

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...

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...