Literary theory

The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from the Elizabethans to the twentieth century.

This Palgrave Pivot offers new insights into leading Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldua, investigating the dynamic composition of her texts, and situating her work in a larger hemispheric tendency of performativity emerging at the turn of the millennium.

This book provides a clear, comprehensive survey of Deleuze''s philosophy, whilst also offering deep analysis of key aspects of his thought.

Die Autoren analysieren das Phänomen Hörbuch.

Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled.

In a postmodern world of globalised capital, how does the concept of Orientalism inform understandings of cultural exchange?

This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction.

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury's Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output.

First published in 1998, this title provides for the reader of the renowned metaphysical poet and politician a valuable reference and resource volume.

Originally published in 1989, The Origins of Literary Studies in America brings together for the first time hard-to-find speeches, reports, and other writings by the founders of literary studies in the United States: Bliss Perry, Woodrow Wilson, Irving Babbitt, M.

This is one of the most respected books on Marx's philosophical thought.

The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin plot to address its current cultural tensions.

First published in 1990.

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The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work.

The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability identifies a common concern in French queer works for the materiality of the body, arguing for a return to the body as fundamental to queer thought and politics, from HIV onwards.

A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture.

This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day.

Examining the work of three authors: Richardson, Haywood and Burney, and their representation of domestic space, this book argues that to make such spaces accessible to modern readers they need to have information of the real domestic.

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare's drama.

First published in 1986, this book sets Kipling firmly in the historical context not only of contemporary India but of prior Anglo-Indian writers about India.

In literary studies and beyond, 'theory' and its aftermaths have arguably been over-influenced by US- and UK-based institutions, publishers, journals, and academics.

The book considers biology in parallel with philosophical structuralism in order to argue that notions of form in the organism are analogous to similar ideas in structuralist philosophy and literary theory.

Integrates Bloomsbury into a story of literary modernism and cultural modernity that encompasses changing norms concerning love, marriage and sexuality.

In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms, including Latinate Christian history and the biblical epic.

Asserting that Coetzee's representation of the body as subject to dismemberment counters the colonial representation of the other's body as exotic and erotically-charged, this study inspects the ambivalence pertaining to Coetzee's embodied representation of the other and reveals the risks that come with such contrapuntal reiteration.

First published in 1971, this book provides a historical account of the fortunes of Rhetoric.

Through a reappraisal of the work of four major figures in critical theory Ernst Bloch, Georg Luk cs, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin Filippo Menozzi rethinks the tradition of critical theory in relation to pressing concerns in postcolonial studies.

Uses the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool and compass to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions, Writing Displacement studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst different migrant nationals from the end of WWII into the new millennium.

This book examines the relationship between the literary and bioscientific cultures of the period as a means of exploring the ways in which the comprehension and representation of the human body fundamentally shapes a variety of the period's communal and national visions.

This Companion shows in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

Originally published in 1991, Piers Plowman: An Approach to the C-Text studies what might be called the "e;mindscape"e; of Piers Plowman.

This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today.

Voice, Text, Hypertext illustrates brilliantly why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically in recent years.

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual.

This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an "e;early Anthropocene"e; in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

The gods of Homer's Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation.

This book investigates the role of the idea of the literary canon in the teaching of literature, especially in colleges and secondary schools in the United States.

The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse.

Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed.

This comparative analysis draws on working-class autobiography, public and boarding school memoirs, and the canonical autobiographies by women and men in the United Kingdom to define subjectivity and value within social class and gender in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.