Literary theory

This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is 'difficult' - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with.

This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles.

This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit.

This collection of essays examines the legacy of H.

Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy employs Silvan Tomkins' Affect-Script theory of human psychology to explore the largely unacknowledged emotions of disgust and shame in tragedy.

Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of 'Homo Economicus' provides a transhistorical account of homo economicus (economic man), demonstrating this figure's significance to economic theory and the Anglo-American novel over a 250-year period.

Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot analyzes literary reproductions of everyday intimacies through a microsociological lens to demonstrate the value of reading microsocially.

This edited collection focuses on the ethics, politics and practices of responsiveness in the context of racism, inequality, difference and controversy.

The past decades have seen a growing "e;philosophical"e; interest in a number of authors, but strangely enough Saramago's oeuvre has been left somewhat aside.

This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural, literary, and historical contexts.

This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction.

In a highly original and interdisciplinary work bridging French and Francophone studies, cultural studies, media studies, and gender and sexuality studies, Luis Navarro-Ayala examines the transnational queer body as a physical and symbolic entity intrinsically connected with space.

This original and authoritative book offers a first-ever attempt to define a poetics of the editing arts.

This book explores how literary texts envision England and respond to discourses and conceptions of Englishness and the English nation, especially in relation to gender and language.

Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish literature, queer studies, American studies, trauma studies, and comics to create an intersectional community of scholarship in literary disability studies of mental health.

This book is a manifesto-like consideration of the potentialities of radical political thought and action in contemporary Puerto Rico.

God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel?

Ayn Rand and the Posthuman is a study of the American novelist's relationship with twenty-first-century ideas about technology.

Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro's writing.

More than perhaps any other genre, crime fiction invites debate over the role of popular fiction in English studies.

This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "e;humorous"e; constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture.

Digital Milton is the first volume to investigate John Milton in terms of our digital present.

Literary Studies Deconstructed critiques the state of Literary Studies in the modern university and argues for its comprehensive reconstruction.

Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry.

This book examines postmodern parody in Latin American literature as the intersection between ideology construction and deconstruction.

This innovative volume establishes autofiction as a new and dynamic area of theoretical research in English.

This book participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged "e;death of theory"e; and the current post-theoretical condition, arguing that the "e;finitude"e; of theoretical projects does not mean "e;end"e;, but rather contingency and transformation of thinking, beyond irreconcilable doctrines.

This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the human drama of replacement.

Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields-Early Modern Studies and Black Studies-that traditionally have had little to say to each other.

Post-millennial writings function as a useful prism through which we can understand contemporary English culture and its compulsion to revisit the immediate past.

This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.

This book provides a fascinating account of rooms in selected works by Virginia Woolf.

Narrative is everywhere and has unique powers: to enchant and inspire, to make sense of our lives and ourselves and to afford us an enriched understanding of alternative worlds and lives and of better futures - though narrative also has the potential to coerce and oppress.

Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture is a collective reflection on the value of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's work for the study of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture.

This book explores Henry James's negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work.

This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry's own relation to truth.

The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.

In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements.

This book analyzes a collection of literary memoirs to demonstrate how this genre is an avenue for participation in public life.

Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic explores the impact of climate change on Canadian literary culture.

One of the leading figures in Latin American folk music and art during her lifetime, Violeta Parra was a vital force in the artistic, musical, visual, cultural, and social cultural production of the Chilean 1960s.

At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and education.

This collection of essays by Australian based practitioner-theorists brings together new research on interactive documentary making.

This book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature.

This book examines temporal and formal disruptions found in American autobiographical narratives produced during the end of the nineteenth century.

This book examines representations of home in literary and visual cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries.

This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts.

This book is about haunting in modernist literature.

This book explores the themes of identity, suffering, and hope in the stories of Puerto Rican people to surface the anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology of a Puerto Rican decolonial theology.