Literature: History & Criticism

Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right...

From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performan...

Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory. From the twelfth to the fift...

Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often ...

This book begins to recover the global history of solidarity as a principle of authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-1983) as an exemplar and readi...

The Age of Silver advances a horizontal method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early real...

Fictional character is an ontologically ambivalent category -- at once a formal construct and a quasi-person -- which lies at the heart of the life...

This critical work asks whether the formation of a poet's oeuvre must involve artistic aberration. With introductory statements exploring the natur...

The term culture has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shi...

In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret locates models for recovering the variety of futures imagined within some of our most foundational literature. Thes...

First published between 1932 and 1940, this is a three-volume study of the historical development of literature. It explores the oral and written l...

Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat ...

Drawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships bet...

Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often ...

The Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur is the only work of any length which does full justice to comedy in the 17th century as a serious dramatic...