Literary theory

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines.

Riccardo Nicolosis Studie fördert ein neues, überraschendes Bild des russischen fin de siècle in seinen vielfältigen Beziehungen zum gesamteuropäischen Degenerationsdiskurs zutage.

Literature and Poverty offers an engaging overview of changes in literary perceptions of poverty and the poor.

From epic to limerick, novel to anecdote, literary narratives engage and entertain us.

This book is a collection of essays on Yvonne Owuor's writings, mainly her most acclaimed novel, Dust as well as Dragonfly Sea and her short story "e;Weight of Whispers"e;.

In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel.

Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature.

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As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary research in recent years.

In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor.

How does our understanding of Africa shift when we begin from the perspective of women?

The term 'cityscaping' is here introduced to characterise the creative process through which the image of the city is created and represented in various media - text, film and artefacts.

The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate.

Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers - John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane - who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentality are frequently blurred.

This highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day.

While historiography is dominated by attempts that try to standardize and de-individualize the behavior of animals, history proves to be littered with records of the exceptional lives of unusual animals.

In this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present.

Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism.

This collection of essays explores the life and works of the British poet and author of short stories Charlotte Mew (1869-1928).

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Seamus Heaney's American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some 40 years that Seamus Heaney spent in the United States as a teacher, lecturer, friend, and colleague, and as an active poet on the reading circuit.

In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature.

This is a study about the reshaping of tragedy and comedy in serious French drama in the quarter century following World War II.

Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century.

Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century.

This book explores the sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's later major prose in relation to more recent theories of the sublime.

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation.

Shakespeare and Emotional Expression offers an exciting new way of considering emotional transactions in Shakespearean drama.

This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry.

Die Studie untersucht das Phänomen der erzählenden Anrede, die gattungsübergreifend in einer Vielzahl von religiösen Texten des Spätmittelalters auftaucht.

What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics?

Wie konstituiert sich das Selbst zwischen Verschmelzung und Abgrenzung?

What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away.

This collection of original essays, written by scholars from disciplines across the humanities, addresses a wide range of questions about love through a focus on individual films, novels, plays, and works of philosophy.

This book argues that the history of English Studies is embedded in its classroom practice, and its practice in its history.

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Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities.

What happens when the world around us feels fragmented?

The emergent culture of crime writings in late 19th century colonial Bengal (India) is an interesting testimony to how literature is shaped by various material forces including the market.

In recent years, cognitive and affective science have become increasingly important for interpretation and explanation in the social sciences and humanities.

This book examines the earliest writings of Edward Said and the foundations of what came to be known as postcolonial criticism, in order to reveal how the groundbreaking author of Orientalism turned literary criticism into a form of political intervention.