Literary theory

The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists.

This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth.

Eine Theorie der Prosa existiert nicht.

Food is a defining feature in every culture.

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Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell actually open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights?

Vermag Literatur Konzepten einer Zeitlichkeit einen Ort zu geben, die durch Nicht-Homogenität und Diskontinuitäten bestimmt ist?

Visuelle Poesie wird wegen ihrer besonderen Verklammerung von Bild und Text, die sie gegen Werke der bildenden Kunst ebenso abgrenzt wie gegen konventionelle Dichtungen, von Anfang an von Theoriebildung begleitet.

The concept of intertextuality - namely, the meaning generated by interrelations between different texts - was coined in the 1960s among literary theorists and has been widely applied since then to many other disciplines, including music.

Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.

The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields.

Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity is the first comprehensive study of Bangladeshi migration and diasporas through eight seminal Bangladeshi novels in English from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Adib Khan's Seasonal Adjustments and Spiral Road, Farhana H.

Originally published in 1962, Virginia Woolf, provides a commentary on the literary work of Virginia Woolf - examining not only her the novels, but also the considerable body of criticism surrounding her work.

Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women's experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved individual and collective past.

English and the Discourses of Colonialism opens with the British departure from Hong Kong marking the end of British colonialism.

Narrative Faith engages with the dynamics of doubt and faith to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions.

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the 20th century may be best characterized as managing the repercussions for variable human populations.

This second book in the Nevile series takes the band of companions deeper into the mystery of the evil king's rise to power.

There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century.

There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of studies of monuments and their histories and of theoretical positions that shed light on aspects of their meanings.

The most important intellectual in the Federal Republic of Germany for the past three decades, Habermas has been a seminal contributor to fields ranging from sociology and political science to philosophy and cultural studies.

This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction.

First Published in 1991.

Rethinking Organizational Change: The Role of Dialogue, Dialectic & Polyphony in the Organization makes an important scholarly contribution to our understanding of dialogue applied to the management of change.

This edition, first published in 2000, offers serious students of Kant a richer, more complete and accurate translation.

During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world.

This book explores the paradoxical productivity of the idea of the end of the novel in contemporary fiction.

Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science.

It is difficult to imagine a world without common sense, the distinction between truth and falsehood, the belief in some form of morality or an agreement that we are all human.

Das Sonett ist eine in der Literaturwissenschaft vielbeachtete Form.

At a time when millions travel around the planet - some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile - translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance.

Terry Eagleton is one of the most important-and most radical-theorists writing today.

This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural and educational theorist, amateur meteorologist and naturalist who gradually became an outspoken critic of capitalist economics and industrialization's toll on the environment.

The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature explores the vital motif of the tree of life and what it meant to early modern writers who drew from its long histories in biblical, classical and folkloric contexts, giving rise to a language of trees, an arboreal aesthetics.

Since its generic inception in 1516, utopia has produced visions of alterity which renegotiate, subvert, and transcend existing places.

In the Romantic period's economics of 'fiat' money the legacy of romanticism involves absolutist gestures of verbal fiat.

This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare.

"e;Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis.

What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character?

Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine modernist narrative for the twenty-first century.

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, is a unique exploration of the novel aspects of perversion from the perspective of cruelty-a psychoanalytic study that has never been sufficiently undertaken in an English-speaking world.

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyzes the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference is characterized by ongoing transformations of spatiality and body, and of essentiality and normativity.