Literature: History & Criticism

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a l...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange objectstr...

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetor...

Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle''s Poetics , the first ...

The Doubling: Those Influential Writers That Shape Our Contemporary Perceptions of Identity and Consciousness in the New Millennium examines pairs ...

Since 9/11, war literature has become a key element in American popular culture, spurring critical debate about depictions of combat--Who can wr...

Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through women''s literary representations of death Provides the first sustained...

Argues that Shakespeare transforms philosophies of comedy and melancholy by revising them concomitantlyIconic as Hamlet is, Shakespearean comedy sh...

A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary ...

Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in humanitiesThis volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines th...

This book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, ...

Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independenc...

Common Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, worke...

This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It expl...

Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernismIn the British Museum, one object attract...

By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse ...

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...