Literary Theory

Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry's relation to time and argues that this relation is historically continge...

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader c...

This book offers a consistent, theoretically grounded, accessible account of adaptation across a range of instances, employing Relevance Theory as ...

Makiko Minow coined the phrase 'lesbian modernism' in 1989. Since then, scholars of lesbian modernism have produced crucial work to critique and ex...

This first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by readin...

Shakespeares Theater of Nature explores nature in Shakespeares plays not just as a source of pastoral nostalgia but also as a vital agent of knowle...

New perspectives on women's contributions to periodical culture in the era of modernismThis collection highlights the contributions of women writer...

This book critically engages criminal law issues relating to sexuality and violence in order to argue that an attention to emotions can produce a m...

Critical Pedagogy and the Trouble with Consciousness Raising incisively critiques the consciousness-raising project that has been so central to con...

Speculative Affect: Objects and Emotions is an edited collection examining the intersection between affect and objects in the fields of literature,...

This volume offers a wide variety of theoretical and critical reflections on the ways that different aspects of time and memory are deployed in lit...

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrat...

This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of...

This book explores the genesis of the Red Book (or Liber Novus), through the lens of Jungs lifelong confrontation with Dante and, in doing so, prov...

Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the c...

Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. U...

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movem...

This companion to Lacans Seminar VI guides readers through an examination of desire, fantasy, dream interpretation, death, object a, and the signif...

Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that. Recently dominated by works of new nature writin...

Offering an insightful examination of Stephen Kings fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freuds theory of the uncanny...