Literature: History & Criticism

Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Pipe...

This is a critical and philosophical investigation into the unforeseeable and the surprising in narrative and life. This new study asks how stories...

A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtuall...

Postmodern revisions of fairy tales have influenced several discourses and disciplines especially during the second half of the twentieth century. ...

This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the ...

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

How did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Confer...

The concept of culture industry leads a double life. On the one hand, it appears as transparent, being used widely and freely in reference to a bra...

L''Intime epistolaire (1850-1900): genre et pratique culturelle is a study of private letters by eight Nineteenth-Century French authors-Flaubert, ...

The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both...

Partendo dai temi cari e mai completamente risolti della traduttologia, che si potrebbero esemplificare nell''affermazione per cui la pratica tradu...

Quand une construction fait-elle figure ? Et quel type de figure fait-elle ? Comment sont interpretees et parsees les figures ? A quoi servent-elle...

In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetic...

This book explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life. Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeab...

The twentieth century with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding saw the birth of a distinctively new and modern ...