Literary theory

Mapping World Literature explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century.

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, crossing the region's language blocs, and focused on the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration.

Among Western literatures, only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Kleist, Kafka, Schmitt, and Schlink who were trained as legal scholars.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014

Literature after Globalization offers a detailed study of recent literary and theoretical responses to technology, globalization, and national identity.

The decade since the publication of Jean-Michel Rabate's controversial manifesto The Future of Theory saw important changes in the field.

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society.

This book shows how Benjamin's thoughts regarding the individual's experience of the material world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

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In Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante's poetic vision.

All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides.

A startling critical-creative examination of one of the 20th Century's leading thinkers, The Late Walter Benjamin is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate on the edge of London in post-war Austerity England.

All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides.