Literary theory

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The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting the conventions of traditional forms of expressing grievability, such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography.

Winner of the 2018 Book Award awarded by the American Association for Applied Linguistics The Invention of Monolingualism harnesses literary studies, applied linguisitics, translation studies, and cultural studies to offer a groundbreaking investigation of monolingualism.

Die Urkatastrophe des Ersten Weltkriegs brachte das "Wert-Vakuum" (Hermann Broch) zum Vorschein, in dem sich eine spezifisch literarische Ethik ausbildete.

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature.

In Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility, Arianna Dagnino analyzes a new type of literature emerging from artists increased movement and cultural flows spawned by globalization.

Joseph Conrad's novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilisation, race, love and heroism.

Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist.

Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography is an eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays, exploring contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

Athens in Paris explores the ways in which the writings of the ancient Greeks played a decisive part in shaping the intellectual projects of structuralism and post-structuralism - arguably the most significant currents of thought of the post-war era.

Poetry and Work offers a timely and much-needed re-examination of the relationship between work and poetry.

This book offers a sustained engagement with the writings of the increasingly influential French philosopher and writer on literature, Gilles Deleuze, offering an introduction to his fascinating body of work and emphasizing its multiple possibilities for literary study.

This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'anticipating' or imaginatively envisioning as well as participating in some of the major current upheavals in their particular national contexts.

Exploring the origins and development of the labour theory of value, Peter Dooley examines its emergence from the natural law philosopher of the sixteenth and seventeenth century and its domination of the classical school of economics.

Roland Barthes was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, but why should the reader of today, or tomorrow, be concerned with him?

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the question of whether globalization has amplified or muted processes of communalism.

This book foregrounds entanglement as a guiding concept in Derrida's work and considers its implications and benefits for ecocritical thought.

Bodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American cultural imagination.

A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association.

Depersonalization and Creative Writing: Unreal City explores the common psychological symptom of depersonalization, its influence on literature and the insights it can provide into the writing process.

'When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?

Ever since Jung's break with Freud, he has been excluded from both the psychoanalytic discourse and those schools of literary criticism influenced by psychoanalysis.

This volume covers a wide range of editorial confrontations with Virginia Woolf's writings, touching on almost every genre in which she wrote: fiction, diary, letter, biography.

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What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right?

Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton's poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work.

Originally published in 2002 God, Literature and Process Thought looks at the use of God in writing, as a part of the creative advance, immersed in the processes of reality and affected by events in the world.

The Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathers examines stuttering, a condition which overwhelmingly affects boys, in terms of the complex relationships a number of male authors have had with their fathers.

What is this thing called literature?

Este libro, que transcribe 322 cartas de los protagonistas de la aventura cientifica que fue ALPI - seleccionadas de entre mas de mil localizadas en archivos publicos y privados, y clasificadas cronologicamente por periodos significativos-, es una historia interna de los intentos para construir una parcela de la ciencia linguistica, la dialectologia y la geografia linguistica, a la altura de lo que existia en otros paises europeos.

If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century.

This volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and translation.

This book provides an overview of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century.

This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture.

Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices Against Violence analyzes the links between creative dissidence and inscriptions of violence in the writings of a selected group of postcolonial Arab women.

Illuminating Eco covers the range of British scholarship on the prolific literary and theoretical work of Umberto Eco.

Drawing on insights from literary theory and analytical philosophy, this book analyzes the intersection of law and literature from the distinct and unique perspective of fictional discourse.

Reading Genesis presents a panoramic view of the most vital ways that Genesis is approached in modern scholarship.

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first century.

This volume explores the influence of the lettre de cachet on both Diderot's personal life and his works, beginning with an examination of Diderot's experience as recipient of two such arrest warrants, followed by an analysis of his references to these warrants in three of his fictional works, Le Pere de famille, Jacques le fataliste and Est-il bon?

Die bedeutende deutsch-amerikanische Denkerin Hannah Arendt, bekannt für ihre Analysen totalitärer Herrschaft, erfreut sich in den letzten Jahren wieder großen Interesses.

This book presents a range of perspectives on the way language, diversity, and identity are reflected in New Zealand children's literature, based on the published research of Nicola Daly, an associate professor in the Division of Education of the University of Waikato, and her colleagues.