Literary theory

This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of David Foster Wallace''s work.

Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines.

The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past.

This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media.

Die Lyrik der fünfziger Jahre weist ein breitgefächertes Repertoire auf: Neben Fortschreibungen lyrischer Traditionen des 19.

Die Bibelübersetzungen des galizisch-podolischen jüdischen Aufklärers Menachem Mendel Lefin Satanower (1749-1826) gehören zu den frühesten unverfälschten Zeugnissen des modernen Ostjiddisch.

This is the only systematic introduction to the full range of Searle''s work.

We define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact.

This book explores times, spaces and imaginings relating to international law through the lens of queer theory.

Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants will interest Shelley-circle researchers, life-writing scholars, and nineteenth-century historians alike.

Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of 'the popular' in the postcolonial paradigm.

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This collection of essays responds to the urgent call in the humanities to go beyond the act of negative critique which, so far, has been the dominant form of intellectual inquiry in academia.

The expression "e;litterature migrante,"e; coined by Quebecois critics in the mid-1980s, reflected the emerging body of literary works written by recent immigrants to the province.

Wild Anthropocene examines four key areas-the politics of deep time, neoliberalism's socio-ecological impacts, global population growth and inter-species entanglement-to demonstrate how literature illuminates progressive solutions to Anthropocene challenges.

The Eloquence of Silence, first published in 1994, is considered a seminal text in the scholarship of women and North Africa.

An extensive investigation of the forms and functions of the comic, this lively and engaging English critical edition will be welcomed by those interested in laughter, comedy, folklore, Russian literature, and specific authors such as Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, Rabelais, Moliere, and Shakespeare.

Julian Wolfreys introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints.

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired by the idea that literature - especially the literary sublime - might offer us the deepest kind of knowledge.

We must, many now argue, `get back' to history.

On Literary Plasticity: Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life calls to Franz Kafka, and in particular 'Die Sorge des Hausvaters', for aid in charting the long reach of plastic on the human mind and world.

This book analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher of history and key theorist of modernity.

In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John.

The Ecrits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature.

The collection showcases new research in the field of cultural and historical narratology.

Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study shows how Northern Irish poetry overspills national borders, complicating and enriching itself through cross-cultural interaction and hybridity.

The late twentieth century saw an explosion of interest in semiotics, the science of the signs and processes by which we communicate.

The French theorist Lacan has always been called a 'literary' theoretician.

Ritual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making and of ordering experience, but the close interrelationship between them has not as yet been given the attention it deserves.

This book examines the validity of the notion of the 'vernacular' and the position of the so-called 'vernaculars' in colonial and postcolonial settings.

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare's texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories.

This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres.

This book establishes Percy Bysshe Shelley''s view of poetry as ''living melody'' and sets it within the wider context of Romantic-era thought.

This book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised.

Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts?

The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance calls attention to theater’s capacity to reveal the constructed roots of catastrophe and offer counter catastrophic strategies to live and imagine otherwise.

The Song of Songs , with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase.

This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H.

Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western.

A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory offers an accessible introduction to all the current approaches to literary analysis.

Barrow's timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform.

First published in 1981, this study sees Wordsworth's work as part of the continuous European struggle to come to terms with consciousness.