Literary Theory

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...

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian li...

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathema...

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the gutter in graphic narratives the gap between panels that a reader has to imagin...

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernismwith a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outrig...

Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide ...

Grief Memoirs: Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance bridges literary studies and psychology to evaluate contemporary grief memoirs fo...

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...

By addressing the Western understanding of the status and nature of animals and the relation of animals to the question of life, this book provides...

Narrative Fiction and Death: Dying Imagined offers a new perspective on the study of death in literature. It focuses on narrative fiction that conv...

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for ec...

On a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in t...

Canadian Literature and Medicine breaks new ground by formulating a series of frameworks with which to read and interpret a national literature der...

This book presents my concept of poetic thinking in the context of debates around the anthropological question, that is what is being human?, build...

This book analyses regional expressions of the queer experience in texts available in the Indian vernacular languages. It studies queer autobiograp...

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a ra...

Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling a...

This book on modern and contemporary Irish theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex ...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

While the it-narrative, the thing-poem and thing theatre have been around for some time, the essay which is often considered literatures fourth ge...