Literary Theory

Warrior-Writers of World War II delivers a thorough study of Americans who saw combat in World War II, survived, and returned home to become famous...

Political theory offers a great variety of interpretive traditions and models. Today, pluralism is the paradigm. But are all approaches equally use...

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this g...

In Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phe...

Attempts to approach the topic of drink and literature and the question of how far this is interconnected with the habits of the writers can be con...

From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity...

This volume analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Théâtre des Funambules in Paris in the context ...

In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experim...

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultura...

Political theory offers a great variety of interpretive traditions and models. Today, pluralism is the paradigm. But are all approaches equally use...

 In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham’s 1937 remark “we should have our liberty 'cause . . . us is human flesh" as a point of...

Originally published in 1994, Oral Tradition in Middle English is an edited collection providing a multidisciplinary look at the importance and nat...

This book investigates the origins of figurative language in literary discourse within a cognitive framework. It represents an interface between li...

This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical analysis, providing b...

From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity...

Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet, since the late twentieth century th...

From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity...

Stories can inspire love, anger, fear and nostalgia – but what is going on in our brains when this happens? And how do our minds conjure up worlds ...

The contributors to Territories and Trajectories propose a model of cultural production and transmission based on the global diffusion, circulation...

The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/d...

The Sense of Brown is José Esteban Muñoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book...