Literary theory

The decade since Beckett's death has seen new interests in the erotic sweeping through our culture, acting in uneasy counterpoint to its established humanistic infrastructure and opening new questions about the significance of sexuality.

Through an examination of the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldua, We Heal From Memory paints a vivid picture of how our culture carries a history of traumatic violence - child sexual abuse, the ownership and enforcement of women's sexuality under slavery, the transmission of violence through generations, and the destruction of non-white cultures and their histories through colonization.

This book examines key aspects of culture and history in 1922, a year made famous by the publication of several modernist masterpieces.

An overview of Kipling''s work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.

Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity.

Writing Poetry combines an accessible introduction to the essential elements of the craft, with a critical awareness of its underpinnings.

This book offers a liberatory conception of individual freedom that uniquely responds to the problems of social oppression and demands of the interrelatedness insofar as it pertains specifically to the social domain of activity.

The Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory provides researchers and students with an up-to-date guide through the vibrant and changing debates in Literary and Cultural Studies.

A lively and informative set of perspectives on the key themes that shape modern Britain.

Joan Rois de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature.

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

Nicht nur die Zeit des Menschen, auch die Eigenzeiten der Literatur stehen heute in einem vielschichtigen Spannungsverhältnis zur Zeit der Natur.

The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature considers the key literary, political, historical and intellectual contexts of African American literature from its origins to the present, and also provides students with an analysis of the most up-to-date literary trends and debates in African American literature.

Best International Debut in 2017 (awarded by Romanian General and Comparative Literature Association) Most Prestigious Publication in the Humanities (awarded by the Senate of the University of Bucharest)Surrealism began as a movement in poetry and visual art, but it turned out to have its widest impact worldwide in fiction-including in major world writers who denied any connection to surrealism at all.

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance.

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The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature.

Frauen sind ängstlich, Männer mutig.

A bold new history of ancient aesthetics and its entanglement with ethics, with ongoing significance for current debates.

Audible Geographies in Latin America examines the audibility of place as a racialized phenomenon.

In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a truncated Pakistan.

Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity examines the poetic works of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson and their advancement of a poetics of sound and sense.

Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing?

An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society.

Literary Translation and the Making of Originals engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation; how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and promotion of particular "e;originals"e;; and the role translation plays in the formation, re-formation, and deformation of national and international literary canons.

Since the 1930s, Latin American writers have used magic realism to transcend the limits of the fantastic and illuminate social problems within the culture.

Perspectives on Retranslation: Ideology, Paratexts, Methods explores retranslation from a variety of aspects and reflects methodological and theoretical developments in the field.

The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English.

Stephen Prickett explores the ''narrative'' in ways of thinking about the world over 300 years.

This book studies gender, sexuality, and representation in The Mahabharata.

Originally published in 1991, Medieval Texts and Images is a collection of essays which critically examines medieval manuscripts.

Evolving from a rigorous study of post-9/11 women's writing, Dr.

The book analyses a variety of topics and current issues in linguistics and literary studies, focusing especially on such aspects as memory, identity and cognition.

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Representations of language learning and literacy, also known as "e;literacy narratives"e; are a staple of literature.

First Published in 2002.

This book studies the significance and representation of the 'city' in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, and dramatists.

Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social representation of emotions, their management and their effects by making reference to creative sources.

The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies.

Methods for Matthew offers a primer on six exegetical approaches that have proved to be especially useful and popular.

Published in 1993: The first modern scholarly edition of the author's play, not published until 1778.

This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections between literature and mathematics.

This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature.

An overview of the history of the novel with practical tips and examples for studying fiction.

This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean.