Literary Theory

This volume contains the first modern critical editions of Concilium (1525) and Rychsztag (1526), two vernacular verse dialogues by the Zurich-base...

This book harvests the authors work, over several decades, on narrative and time, the place of imagination in conceptual thinking, and the underlyi...

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...

Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as ''a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure'', in the early twentieth century the Eng...

This new edition of Bob Brown''s groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown''s Roving ...

Explores the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance periodOffers the first sustained study of the history and theory of personhood in ...

Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theoryProvides new avenues for research in Bowen studies in ways ...

The kinship between modernism and close reading has long between taken for granted. But for that reason, it has also gone unexamined. As the archiv...

A WIRED 2020 Book of the Year Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Nothing...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Coffee--it's the thing that gets us th...

In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the ...

This collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

By reading two bodies of literature not normally read together the outlaw literature and espionage literature Conor McCarthy shows how these genr...

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the ''age of speed'' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still li...

The Internet has fundamentally altered our perceptions of narrative and its core components, including authorship, setting, characterization, re...

Learn how to write about literature the convenient, affordable way! COMPACT LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING,9E helps you succeed in class an...

Modes of address are forms of signification that we direct at living beings, things, and places, and they at us and at each other. Seeing is a form...

In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was on...

Catechisms and Women's Writing in Seventeenth-Century England is a study of early modern women's literary use of catechizing. Paula McQuade examine...

Theatre is often said to offer unique insights into the nature of reality, but this obscures the reality of theatre itself. In Real Theatre, Paul R...

Posthuman Gothic is an edited collection of thirteen chapters, and offers a structured, dialogical contribution to the discussion of the posthuman ...