Literary Theory

Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of at...

This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. By "locating," the contributors contextualize histo...

In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 196...

Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of at...

In many thriving areas of critical activity, critics have come to view with suspicion such notions as literary specificity or literary autonomy, an...

'I have often declared my admiration for Helene Cixous, for the person and for the work: immense, powerful, so multiple but unique in this century....

In January 1977 Roland Barthes became professor of literary semiology at the College de France, where he taught for three years until his death in ...

In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals. The le...

In this special issue of differences, leading feminist theorists acknowledge Derrida’s contribution to feminist theory, discuss the crucial place o...

Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie...

James Applewhite has produced nine extraordinary books of poetry. This volume is the first anthology of his remarkable oeuvre. It brings together c...

An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses t...

A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature availab...

A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature availab...

This volume is a study of the language of literary texts. It looks at the usefulness of pragmatic theories to the interpretation of literary texts ...

This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris upri...

James Applewhite has produced nine extraordinary books of poetry. This volume is the first anthology of his remarkable oeuvre. It brings together c...

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached...

Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, o...

To our modern ears the word “creature” has wild, musky, even monstrous, connotations. And yet the terms “creaturely” and “love,” taken together, ha...

Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the...

This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how t...

Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fie...