Literary Theory

The 'Global South' has largely supplanted the 'Third World' in discussions of development studies, postcolonial studies, world literature and compa...

It is the first sustained study to explore the relationship between touching and writing in contemporary literature. For centuries, writers have ex...

This book re-reads a major theorist in terms of the current crisis in sovereignty and global capital. In this book, 13 experts revisit de Man's acc...

Acclaimed author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On KindnessA collection of literary essays like no other - exploring the deep connecti...

Julia Kristeva is an important and influential figure within contemporary Continental thought. This book is an engaging appraisal of the complex r...

This book includes essays by leading authors on Shakespeare drawing on contemporary and early continental philosophy. This collection of 15 essays ...

Paid critics are an endangered species, and good criticism is a dying art. Editors are culling many, and frequently all, of their best critics. In ...

For Kristeva, in a world immersed in readymade images, art or aesthetic experience is a practice that constitutes both a subject (a sense of self) ...

Proposes a new Deleuzian model for understanding narrativeWhat is narrative? Ridvan Askin brings together aesthetics, contemporary North American f...

Current philosophical discussions of self-deception remain steeped in disagreement and controversy. In The Self-Deceiving Muse, Alan Singer propose...

This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan''''s career to show his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It is an examination of...

Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a begin...

Introducesthe figure of contamination as alternative to dialecticsWhereas dialectics separates two entities and traverses from one to the other (fi...

We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything re...

This study shows how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and synaesthetic metaphor to create a...

States of Decadence is a two volume anthology that focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence. Particular attention is given to l...

What do Cesare Pavese, Beppe Fenoglio and Primo Levi have in common? Apart from their obvious Piedmontese origins, they and other writers coming fr...

Leo Tolstoy is one of the most celebrated novelists of all time. As well as writing literary classics such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace he wa...

This book provides an accessible introduction to, and overview of, the digital humanities, one of the fastest growing areas of literary studies. La...