Literary theory

The fact that Eliot disapproved of Romanticism is clear from his critical essays, where he often appears to reject it absolutely.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the major American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

In this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together.

This edited collection represents a first-of-its-kind exploration of English-related discourses in the Caribbean.

Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as "e;decolonial"e; and "e;coloniality"e; to question methodologies in literary and cultural scholarship.

First published in 1984, John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination is informed not only by an enthusiasm for Bunyan but by an understanding of the literary and theological currents of the time.

Teaching the Gothic provides a clear and accessible account of how scholarship on the Gothic has influenced the way in which the Gothic is taught.

Since the 1960s, the literary critic Harold Bloom has been producing some of the most powerful criticism in the United States.

_______________'A series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists' - London Review of Books'Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise .

Literary style is something many people talk about, but few could define.

This accessible Introduction provides an in-depth overview of absurdism and its key figures in theatre and literature.

Originally published in 1963 and edited by an authority on Wyndham Lewis (whom he also knew personally) this volume made available for the first time over 500 letters of Wyndham Lewis, who for half a century was a dynamic force among English artists and intellectuals.

Originally published in 1984, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages is a comprehensive bibliography on the subject of literature and law in the Middle Ages.

This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction.

This innovative, extensively illustrated study examines how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed significantly to the production of the modern Greek nation and its national imagination.

This book explores narratives of nationalism in the Hindi novel (1940s 80s), engaging with mainstream, populist, political conceptualisation of a postcolonial nation and local, cultural, often marginalised fictional parallels and alternatives to it.

Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, W.

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This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire.

Originally published in 1962, Virginia Woolf, provides a commentary on the literary work of Virginia Woolf - examining not only her the novels, but also the considerable body of criticism surrounding her work.

This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society.

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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.

The title of this book, Derivative Lives, alludes to the challenge of finding one's way within the contemporary market of virtually limitless information and claims to veracity.

Women in Greek epic are treated as objects, as commodities to be exchanged in marriage or as the spoils of warfare.

Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare's involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare's theatre opened up a new perspective on normativity.

Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students,Teachers, and Scholars is the only Internet guide written for those who love and study literature.

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

It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s.

This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping.

First published in 1983, Dean Swift is the concluding book in a series of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the events of Swift's life.

The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism.

Der Schriftsteller und bildende Künstler Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916-1991) erschien in der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur, so heißt es im Spiegel-Nachruf, "wie ein Sonntagskind": "Frei von der sehr deutschen Bedrückung, Zerknirschtheit und Provinzialität, die im Freundeskreis der 'Gruppe 47' vorherrschten", erzählte er in den Lieblosen Legenden (1952) "weltläufig, gebildet, mit geradezu musikalischer Eleganz [.

Alongside the recent cultural turn in the humanities, there has been a noticeable return to ethical considerations.

Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.

This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.

Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States, and their subversive appropriation in pre- and post-9/11 fiction.

Ernst Jüngers Werk hat in den vergangenen Jahren eine nachhaltige Renaissance erfahren, wobei vor allem rechte Kreise den aporetischen Duktus seiner Utopien und Staatskonzepte ignorieren.

Various aspects of Milton are explored in this collection of essays by scholars whose reputations were, at the time of publication in 1960, perhaps largely based on their writings on more modern subjects.

First published in 1994.

This unique book examines the psychoanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the provocative eighteenth-century novel by Laurence Sterne.

Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation.

Extending and reframing the works of Bakhtin, Gadamer, Ong, and Foucault--with particular emphasis on Bakhtin's late essays --Macovski constructs a theoretical model of literary dialogue and applies it to a range of Romantic texts.