Literary theory

This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human, responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation.

This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space.

Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that.

Das englischsprachige Handbuch bietet einen systematischen Uberblick uber den aktuellen Stand der internationalen Forschung zur Narratologie.

Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.

This collection of essays explores the life and works of the British poet and author of short stories Charlotte Mew (1869-1928).

In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making.

Building Socialism reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period.

A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme.

Explores a new area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how landscape and metaphor shape discussions of style.

This volume of commemorative and celebratory essays, first published in 1974, concentrates on William Empson - the critic, the poet and friend.

Originally published in 1995.

With its laser-focus on the verbal and visual infrastructure of narrative, The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors is the first sustained comparative study of how image patterns are tracked in prose and cinema.

This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies.

First published in 1969, this book places Coleridge's literary criticism against the background of his philosophical thinking, examining his theories about criticism and the nature of poetry.

This edited book explores languages and cultures (or linguacultures) from a translation perspective, resting on the assumption that they find expression as linguacultural worldviews.

This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions.

Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture.

The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies provides the first overview of significant concepts within reenactment studies.

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 provides insight into the critical traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain.

Die Aufsätze dieses Bandes untersuchen Möglichkeiten und Probleme der Edition und Interpretation moderner Lyrik seit Hölderlin.

In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the "e;self-conscious Anthropocene,"e; a period in which there is widespread awareness of the scale and severity of human effects on the planet.

First Published in 1972, The Scholar-Critic argues that it's a mistake to consider literary criticism and literary scholarship as each other's antitheses.

Phallic Critiques, first published in 1984, is a study of 'masculine' styles of writing in the twentieth century - an age, according to Virginia Woolf, when 'virility has become self-conscious'.

First published anonymously, as 'a lady', Jane Austen is now among the world's most famous and highly revered authors.

Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as it poses a myriad of economic, scientific, political and cultural challenges in the age of the Anthropocene.

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism explores the multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the development and our understanding of modernist thought in its philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations.

This book radically re-examines Europe's imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world.

A ground-breaking study of the roles played by foreign languages in film and television and their relationship to translation.

The introduction to a series of interdisciplinary titles, both monographs and essays, concerned with matters of literature, art and textuality within religious traditions founded upon texts and textual study.

Dieser Klassiker geht das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Wirklichkeit, Autor und Text auf drei Ebenen an.

This book examines textual representations of Africa in the Indian imagination from 1928 to 1973.

Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book in any language to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in literary and cultural theory.

Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory introduces the key concepts, figures and movements of both psychoanalytic theory and the history of literary criticism and theory, engaging with Freud, Zizek, Plato, posthumanism, and beyond.

This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicisation of the Indian middle class in the context of postcolonial India.

This book reflects on the "e;literary"e; in literature.

In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Ranci re continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art.

How English has become a language of the people in Indiaone that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today.

Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature tracks flashpoint events in U.

In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King.

The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept of the 'hypercontemporary' as a way of reading the novel after its postmodern period.

Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay "e;The Decay of Lying,"e; this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde.