Literary theory

The essays in this book reflect upon the central role that the apocalypse has played in American literature and culture.

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.

This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period.

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.

Luxurious Sexualities contains some of the most path- breaking adventurous critical writing currently to be found in Britain.

This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of power and alienation.

Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon.

Since its launch in 1987 Textual Practice has established itself as a leading journal of radical literary theory.

Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness.

This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa.

The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual at large, and studies the singular relationship established between language and image, observesing the modalities and workings of what is termed 'intermedial transposition'.

Creative Lives and Works: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane.

This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities.

This book introduces the Bible as one of the greatest works of world literature.

This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg's theory of myth.

Focuses on figures who saw themselves as part of a Decadent tradition as they revised the concept of the family in the early 20th century.

Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and constitutive of what renders some works appealing and engaging across time and in different contexts.

In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.

This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult literature.

This in-depth study of the classical Hindi tradition brings the world of Mughal-era poetry and court culture alive for an English readership.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Bie - Eul" verfügbar.

This is the first major collection of essays specifically to address the impact of visual technologies on the production of literature in the twentieth-century.

This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space.

This book, first published in 1928, is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of Persian maritime exploration.

Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance seeks to open a lively and accessible discussion between critical studies of men and masculinities and popular romance studies, especially its continued interest in what Janice Radway has called "e;the purity of his maleness.

Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference?

A comprehensive guide to Foucault, from his early work on madness to his history of sexuality.

Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception.

Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art.

Biographie als allgegenwärtiges Phänomen.

This book explores one of the most exciting new developments in the literary field to emerge over recent decades: the growing body of work known as 'electronic literature', comprising literary works that take advantage of the capabilities of digital technologies in their enactment.

Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sidesaddresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, plantstudies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives.

An accessible overview of the German writer''s life, works, intellectual, historical and cultural background, and the reception of his work.

This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to the living Swahili literary and intellectual tradition.

Reflects on and re-imagines the role of the scholarly edition and its reader in the twenty-first century.

We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences.

Die Beitrage des Bandes zeigen, dass die disziplinare Begegnung zwischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft weit mehr ist als eine Tradition akademischer Institutionen.

First published in 2002.

Amid diverse theoretical debates about the canon in the media and in academia, in English Inside and Out leading proponents of literary studies take a close look at the discipline and the profession and envisage its future.