Literary theory

Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship.

A masterful, nuanced, and novel examination of Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

An encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett.

This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions, ranging from a notion of disablement, expressed in victimization, immobilization, traumatization, and death, to enablement, expressed in the perpetration of heroic, courageous, skillful, and powerful actions of assertion and dominance.

Networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines.

Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction.

Trotz einer neuen Aufmerksamkeit im Zuge des ‚spatial turn‘ hat man sich in der Narratologie bisher nicht systematisch mit den basalen Fragen der Beschreibung von Raum in Erzähltexten beschäftigt.

The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting.

Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrounding conception, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences.

A lively and informative set of perspectives on the key themes that shape modern Britain.

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism-with a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outright nihilism.

How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "e;social media"e; such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter?

The Borders of Empathy in Children's Fiction centres the question of how reading fiction develops our moral imagination and our capacities to think and feel with others.

This volume is the first of its kind to explore the notion of untranslatability from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and its implications within the broader context of translation studies.

Dass die göttliche Gegenwart in weltlicher Greifbarkeit bezeugt wird, ist paradox.

After the Lebanese Civil War, many Lebanese novelists committed themselves to building a "e;memory for the future.

In This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it.

This book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity.

This book addresses the question of animal rights in the context of literary criticism.

This book, first published in 1980, is a guide to the major forces in the subculture of science fiction.

Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History offers a series of essays on small-scale models of bombed out cities.

At times of crisis and revolution such as ours, diagnoses of crucial junctures and ruptures - 'turning points' - in the continuous flow of history are more prevalent than ever.

Creative Writing Practice: reflections on form and process explores the craft of creative writing by illuminating the practices of writers and writer-educators.

This book contains a new edition and English translation of the oldest commentary on Aristotle written in Arabic and preserved to this day, together with an extensive commentary.

Is it possible that changes in rhetorical practice could alter not just how thought is expressed, but also how it is made?

Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity.

Resilience discourse has recently become a global phenomenon, infiltrating the natural and social sciences, but has rarely been undertaken as an important object of study within the field of the humanities.

This volume forms part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series, which deals with schools, movements and discursive practices in major South Asian languages.

This book explores the current human rights crisis created by the War on Drugs in Mexico.

Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon: lazy, creative, rule-breaking bodies, queer bodies, marginalized and impoverished bodies, revolting and revolutionary, historical bodies.

Scholarship has traditionally characterized elegy as a Eurocentric tradition a genealogy spanning from ancient Greek pastoral poems via the English elegy to English and Anglo-American Modernist contemporary poets.

The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people.

Following the material turn in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the 21st century.

This volume revisits important moments from 1920 to 1970, key years for Caribbean literature, to open up new perspectives.

In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life.

This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received.

This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit.

In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot's poetry and poetic thought in the light of his political and religious attachments.

Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class.

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

In The Value of Literature, Rafe McGregor employs a unique approach - the combination of philosophical work on value theory and critical work on the relationship between form and content - to present a new argument for, and defence of, literary humanism.

In this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts, looking at: definitions of key terms such as literature and text the genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and film periods and classifications of literature theoretical approaches to texts the use of secondary resources guidelines for writing research essays The new and expanded edition is fully updated to include: a wider range of textual examples from world literature additional references to contemporary cinema, a section on comparative literature an extended survey of literary periods and genres recent changes in MLA guidelines information on state-of-the-art citation management software the use and abuse of online resources.