Literary Theory

Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylisticsHow do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at o...

Introduces the full range and depth of the early 20th-century European avant-gardesThis engaging introduction outlines the cultural and political c...

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...

This major new collection of texts by Helene Cixous brings together a range of important untranslated as well as four previously unpublished essays...

This book reflects on the figure of veering to form a new theory of literature. Contrary to a widespread sense that literature has become increasin...

This book collects 10 years of Peggy Kamuf's writing on the work and friendship of Jacques Derrida. This study discusses the key aspects of Derrida...

Diasporic Identities and Empire: Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes explores traditional theories on hybridity, generated in consideratio...

The question of the relation between the visual and the textual in literature is at the heart of an increasing number of scholarly projects, and in...

This book explores the origins of American literary deconstruction in the light of the work of Russian philosopher Mikhail M. Bakhtin. To do so, th...

From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid chan...

The volume offers a variety of new interpretations of a selection of well-known and culturally established works of verbal and visual culture. It d...

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

In recent years horror and gothic themes have penetrated mainstream popular culture in a manner unseen since the horror boom of the 1970s. Prime...

How often does a novel earn its author both the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded to Harper Lee by George W. Bush in 2007, and a spot on a lis...

This book offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of...

An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning stu...

Times Fool: Essays in Context is a collection of essays on a broad range of topics, from Gilgamesh to James Joyce and beyond: to Kazuo Ishiguro, M...