Literary Theory

Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Ha...

By developing his own conception of the 'figure' Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship betwee...

By developing his own conception of the 'figure' Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship betwee...

According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and wh...

(M)Other Tongues: Literary Reflexions on a Difficult Distinction examines a key problem of literary criticism: the differentiation between language...

Through readings of an array of recent texts literary and popular, fictional and autofictional, realist and experimental this book maps out a c...

Partendo dai temi cari e mai completamente risolti della traduttologia, che si potrebbero esemplificare nell''affermazione per cui la pratica tradu...

Cet ouvrage reflete la richesse et la diversite des recherches en slavistique qui sont menees actuellement en Suisse. Plusieurs aspects de la slavi...

Quand une construction fait-elle figure ? Et quel type de figure fait-elle ? Comment sont interpretees et parsees les figures ? A quoi servent-elle...

Ce livre presente les trois dernieres sessions du projet de l''Institut international des Hautes etudes de Kyoto (IIAS) Reception et creativite -...

Le present ouvrage se propose d''analyser la demarche des surrealistes bruxellois Paul Nouge et Rene Magritte, qui consiste en la creation d'' obj...

In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetic...

Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Pipe...

This is a critical and philosophical investigation into the unforeseeable and the surprising in narrative and life. This new study asks how stories...

This book explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life. Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeab...