Literary Theory

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...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We think we know the trench coat, but w...

As a colour, black is a single hue. It comes in no other shades. It is pure darkness, absorber of all light. But despite its commonly accepted role...

Germany in the mid 1920s, a place and time of looming turmoil, brought together Walter Benjamin-acclaimed critic and extraordinary literary theoris...

'Postmodernism' became the buzzword of contemporary society in the 1990s. Yet, even now, it still remains confusing and baffling in its variety of ...

Sarah Baartman's iconic status as the Hottentot Venus - as victimized African woman, Mother of the new South Africa, and ancestral spirit to countl...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Its happening all the time, all around ...

Investigates how the cinematic tendency of Joyce's writing developed from media predating film In this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian cult...

Rescuing the subject from deadly dry theorists and -isms, Clare Connors focuses on the real questions that emerge when we read and study literature...

Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persis...

Text in English & German. The Journal for Intercultural German Studies (ZiG) accomodates the fact that in German studies, both at home and abro...

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great...

What is the difference between literal and figurative writing? Is there really a secret set of tricks used by top authors to make their writing eve...