Literary theory

The Emerging Contours of the Medium explores a crucial aspect of media thinking, focusing particularly on the 'mediality' of literature, a medium that remains today on the margins of the theoretical discussion of media.

This monumental book, first published in 1992, represents a major contribution to Sephardic and Hispanic studies as well as to comparative folklore scholarship in a worldwide perspective.

This book tells the story of two strange bedfellows, the Postcolonial Left and the Hindu Right.

Umberto Eco war einer der wichtigsten Intellektuellen des 20.

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

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam" verfügbar.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Literarischer Text und kommunikatives Handeln" verfügbar.

Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers.

The first edition of Place and Experience established Jeff Malpas as one of the leading philosophers and thinkers of place and space and provided a creative and refreshing alternative to prevailing post-structuralist and postmodern theories of place.

Scholars have problematized otherness and madness in diverse ways.

Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, the notion that capitalism has become too abstract for all but the most rarefied specialists to understand has been widely presupposed.

In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative.

A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century.

This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of controversy.

In her focus on irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction, Gloria Nne Onyeoziri refers to an internal subversion of the discourse of the wise and the powerful, a practice that has played multiple roles in the circulation of knowledge, authority, and opinion within African communities; in the interpretation of colonial and postcolonial experience; and in the ongoing resistance to tyrannies in African societies.

This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in life writing.

In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom.

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet.

This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals.

Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that reconceptualizes and models "e;scriptural studies"e; as a critical, comparative set of practices with broad ramifications for scholars of religion and biblical studies.

Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory.

In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics discipline since the publication of Defoe's novel in 1719.

An expansive study of the novel''s moral ambivalence toward procreation, from the nineteenth century through modernism to the present.

With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine.

Addressing the influential analysis of law and literature, this book offers a new perspective on their relationship.

First published in 1990, this title provides a compendium of useful information for any reader of Donne to have at hand: crucial biographical material, historical contextualisation, and details about his life's work.

Who do you think you are?

Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized.

First published in 1996.

Word, Work and the World begins with the assumption that people are interested in the world around them.

We trust our sciences to operate on a plane of objectivity and fact in a world of subjectivity and cultural ideologies, but should we?

Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text.

An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nationalist movement.

First published in 1983.

Originally published in 1977, Old English and Middle English Poetry provides a historical approach to English poetry.

Ein Blick in die aktuellen Spielpläne der Theater der Gegenwart offenbart ein offenes und hetero-genes Feld an Textformen und Inszenierungsweisen.

Examines how Gothic romances like Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde expressed fears and visionary possibilities suggested by neurological research.

Why do animals talk in literature?

A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual.

This volume is a collection of ten essays that direct their gaze to the unfolding of contagions in the non-classical contexts of Asia and Africa.

This book explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates.

Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on literary studies.

The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics.