Literary Theory

The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both o...

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents th...

This collection features leading literary critics and explores the role of language in thinking about the ways in which the world might be otherwis...

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on g...

This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge ...

This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats. Coming 150 y...

Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliber...

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-centurys most innovative thinkers and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered m...

This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature...

Title first published in 2003. 'Weber is probably the only person in his generation who is equally at home in and directly informed about contempor...

Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of modernist and postmode...

This book consists of the study of five Brazilian novels produced in the last decades of the nineteenth century: O mulato (1881), O cortigo (1890),...

Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing...

Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing...

Sidney Homan defines a pivotal line as a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play a magnet to which the rest of the play...

This is the first survey of Murdochs exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives. The study de...

This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The historical range of the n...

It has been over two decades since the publication of the last major edited collection focused on psychoanalysis and early modern culture. In Shake...

Sublime Subjects explores two fundamental questions: what is the start of humanity? When and how does a newborn child become a subject? These are r...

The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been ...

Narratives of Womens Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological t...

Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives represents an exploration of the dynamic intersections between mobility, space, and...

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, De...

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic traditi...

This book traces literatures long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, material effects. It brings this tradition...

Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory is a pioneering book that offers a fresh perspective on Arabic, Per...

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (19272001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as rural (grameen) fiction in Marathi in the...

In earlier work Patrick Colm Hogan argued that a few story genresheroic, romantic, sacrificial, and othersrecur prominently across separate literar...

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories al...

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories al...