Literary theory

This collection of eleven essays positions Moore within a developing and expanding international readership during the course of the nineteenth century.

The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkner's novels and short stories.

Reviled by critics but loved by the readers, the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critical interest.

This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory.

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients?

This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka's engagement with the classical past.

This book is an attempt at deconstructive counter-reading or at what Jonathan Dollimore called "e;creative vandalism"e; (2018) of existing cultural or literary texts.

This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets.

This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures.

Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics presents multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research papers describing new developments in the field of cognitive poetics.

The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling.

This volume investigates the relationship between the conventions of noir fiction and film and its sub-types in relation to environmental crises.

Opening the way for a reexamination of Matthew Arnold's unique contributions to ethical criticism, James Walter Caufield emphasizes the central role of philosophical pessimism in Arnold's master tropes of "e;culture"e; and "e;conduct.

The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere-the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history.

Mit den hier vorgelegten Texte zum Literaturbegriff, zum literarischen Stil, zu Problemen der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung und zur Geschichte der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft zieht Rainer Rosenberg Bilanz aus seine Arbeit in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten.

Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic.

Northrop Frye describes the way symbols operate as media of exchange in literature, drawing examples from English literature in difference periods.

These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters.

An argument that humanists have the toolsand the responsibilityto mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change?

This book is the first full-length examination of the cultural politics at work in the act of translation in East Africa, providing close critical analyses of a variety of texts that demonstrate the myriad connections between translation and larger socio-political forces.

This book is an invaluable reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over forty of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory today.

This edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power yet remains undertheorized.

Until about 1986, feminists generally considered modernism a reactionary, misogynist, and hegemonic mire not worth investigating.

Through specific and rigorous analysis of contemporary literary texts, this book shows how writers from inside affected communities portray indigeneity, displacement, and trauma.

"e;In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people .

Petroglyphic rock art in Mongolia''s Altai Mountains is used to study the intersection of prehistoric culture and paleoenvironment.

In Shakespeare's Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero: "e;.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.

First published in 1983, Dean Swift is the concluding book in a series of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the events of Swift's life.

The essays collected in The Selfless Ego propose an innovative approach to one of the most fascinating aspects of Tibetan literature: life writing.

From William Shakespeare to Marilynne Robinson, this book examines representations of interpersonal reconciliation in works of literature, focusing on how these representations draw on the language of divine forgiveness.

Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class.

Geofeminism in Irish and Diasporic Culture: Intimate Cartographies demonstrates the ways in which contemporary feminist Irish and diasporic authors, such as Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Tana French, cross borders literally (in terms of location), ideologically (in terms of syncretive politics and faiths), figuratively (in terms of conventions and canonicity), and linguistically to develop an epistemological "e;Fifth Space"e; of cultural actualization beyond borders.

First published in 1968, this book sets out to refute the idea of Trollope as a 'mild cathedral-town novelist, describing storms in ecclesiastical tea cups' which prevailed at the time in spite of his stature during his lifetime.

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship.

Practising Theory and Reading Literature provides an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts.

This book studies the impact of violence on the writing of the Romantic period.

What is posthumanism and why does it matter?

What does Peter Pan have to say about our conception of childhood, about how we understand the child's and our own relationship to language, sexuality, and death?