Literary theory

This book presents a systematic elaboration on Chinese literature and its criticism, with special reference to introducing the predominant role of idea-image.

This book analyzes how the use of digital media by young children can affect their development.

This book looks at the translations which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions and whose source texts had appeared in the Journal des Scavans during the period 1665 to 1700.

This book looks at the translations which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions and whose source texts had appeared in the Journal des Scavans during the period 1665 to 1700.

Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women's Novels examines a genre of ethnic American women's literature, which the author calls spiritual trauma narratives, that testify to traumas caused by epistemological violence, wreaked by ongoing colonialism, systematic racism, and marginalization grounded in a binary, hierarchical, and supremacist post-Enlightenment epistemology that negates the spiritual knowledge of interconnectivity found in people of color's belief systems.

This book introduces the origin and development of Chinese fiction before late Qing dynasty.

Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women's Novels examines a genre of ethnic American women's literature, which the author calls spiritual trauma narratives, that testify to traumas caused by epistemological violence, wreaked by ongoing colonialism, systematic racism, and marginalization grounded in a binary, hierarchical, and supremacist post-Enlightenment epistemology that negates the spiritual knowledge of interconnectivity found in people of color's belief systems.

This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which appears in everything from classical mythology to twentieth -century and contemporary literature, which draws on this earlier work.

This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which appears in everything from classical mythology to twentieth -century and contemporary literature, which draws on this earlier work.

This book introduces the origin and development of Chinese fiction before late Qing dynasty.

This book sets out to elucidate Conrad's unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engaged in Conrad studies.

This book sets out to elucidate Conrad's unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engaged in Conrad studies.

This book fills a critical void in African research: a lack of engagement with the question of how digital capabilities can be harnessed to liberate Africa from the subtle grips of neocolonization.

This book fills a critical void in African research: a lack of engagement with the question of how digital capabilities can be harnessed to liberate Africa from the subtle grips of neocolonization.

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrative content.

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrative content.

This book delves comprehensively into organisational communication in Africa in the digital age, alongside other organisational changes.

This book delves comprehensively into organisational communication in Africa in the digital age, alongside other organisational changes.

This book explores the world of psychogeographical walking as portrayed in zines - self-made, low-budget publications circulated within DIY communities.

This book explores the world of psychogeographical walking as portrayed in zines - self-made, low-budget publications circulated within DIY communities.

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe.

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe.

This book does two things, first it celebrates and honors the research, scholarship, and leadership of Comfort Memfin Ekpo, the renowned Nigerian professor of educational technology, who is the second female vice chancellor to head a federal university in Nigeria.

This book does two things, first it celebrates and honors the research, scholarship, and leadership of Comfort Memfin Ekpo, the renowned Nigerian professor of educational technology, who is the second female vice chancellor to head a federal university in Nigeria.

This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three women writers, published from 1986 to 2000, from the perspective of poststructuralist feminism.

This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to "e;All-in-Allness"e;.

This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to "e;All-in-Allness"e;.

This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three women writers, published from 1986 to 2000, from the perspective of poststructuralist feminism.

There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between political thought and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field - particularly one that shows in detail how we can think more freely and creatively about political possibilities by reading and reflecting on politically significant literature.

Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature explores the crucial role of paper in the early history of books and of English literature.

This book explores the activism of the Italian collective Wu Ming.

This book explores the activism of the Italian collective Wu Ming.

This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature.

This book adapts the Arabic term nafsiyya to trace the phenomenological contours of Edward Said's analysis of the affective dimensions of colonial and imperial racism.

The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain expounds the scene of reading as one that produces an overwhelmed body exposed to uncontainable forms of violence.

The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain expounds the scene of reading as one that produces an overwhelmed body exposed to uncontainable forms of violence.

This book adapts the Arabic term nafsiyya to trace the phenomenological contours of Edward Said's analysis of the affective dimensions of colonial and imperial racism.

This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which 'alternative facts' and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of millions of people around the planet.

This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which 'alternative facts' and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of millions of people around the planet.

This book is the first monograph to critically evaluate the work of the literary scholar Rene Girard from the perspectives of Law and Literature and Law and Film Studies, two of the most multidisciplinary branches of critical legal theory.

This book gives a general overview of Artificial Intelligence as it is impacting on the world of the arts and culture.

This book gives a general overview of Artificial Intelligence as it is impacting on the world of the arts and culture.

Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rites Of Disimagination brings together scholars from art history and image theory, literary studies and philosophy.