Literary Theory

A century of American history reflected in the iconic private eye.Steadfast in fighting crime, but operating outside the police forceand sometimes ...

Some of H.D.s most oft-quoted lines have to do with the meaning and value of words; they are conditioned to hatch butterflies. Yet rather than seek...

Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culturefrom novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movieshas responded to the ...

A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekOne of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth...

Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the significance of deser...

To ''conceive'' desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of th...

Clearly focussed on the needs of students, Robert Eaglestone and Jonathan Beecher Field have revised the best-selling Doing English specifically fo...

For more than 30 years and until his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida remained one of the most influential contemporary philosophers. It may be diffi...

For more than 30 years and until his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida remained one of the most influential contemporary philosophers. It may be diffi...

This book brings to light Derrida''s rich and thought-provoking discussions of Shakespearean drama. Contextualising Derrida''s readings of Shakespe...

The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakeably demonstrates a huge interest in the worl...

En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces a...

Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making o...

American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of Americ...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the st...

In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and ...

During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers fee...

Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under...

This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It o...

In facing up to life and its challenges, questions inevitably arise. Different situations provoke specific questions-mostly trivial but frequently ...

Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the welln...