Literary Theory

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When is the beautiful game at its most ...

A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history. - Publishers Weekly A book that sticks with you long after youv...

'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family me...

In this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture''s emergent ''cinematicity'' as a key creative driver of Joyce''s experimental fiction, sho...

A feminist classic.Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book ReviewA pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.Carolyn ...

Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and cul...

In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores films connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise an...

Presents an exhaustive catalogue of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume includes sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of wh...

u201cAll art and the love of art,u201d Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of the deeply personal Musings on Mortality, u201callow us to negate...

Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works fr...

What does political agency mean for those who don't know what to do or can't be bothered to do it? This book develops a novel account of collecti...

Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of ou...

Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right...

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

Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the experience of literature. This v...

Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory. From the twelfth to the fift...