Literary theory

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?

This step-by-step guide takes the reader through each stage of the design process, from concept to completion, exploring practical methods of how to engage the community throughout interior architecture and design projects.

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing cliches about the operations of the European Christian missionaries whether Protestant or Catholic in Africa, and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships.

In this critical volume, leading scholars in the field examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia.

This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment.

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Taking Sigmund Freud''s theories as a point of departure, Jean-Michel Rabaté''s book explores the intriguing ties between psychoanalysis and literature.

Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature.

Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers.

Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews.

In this book, first published in 1990, Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker offer the first English translation of Marcel Jousse's crucially important work, Le style oral.

What would a Buddhist theory of texts look like through the lens of the 5th-century thinker Buddhaghosa?

Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre critically engages with works of theatre both by and about working-class women, historically and presently.

Written specifically with the student in mind and focusing on a number of well-known texts, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nicholas Nickleby, Nice Work and The Color Purple, the contributions in this book demonstrate how we can look critically at literary adaptations and learn to distinguish between mythical images and the reality of the process that constructed them.

This volume investigates the cultural sites where the global Cold War played out.

Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction offers fresh readings of what has been called "e;transatlantic literature"e;.

The focus of this book is medieval vernacular literature in Western Europe.

This book offers a cutting-edge compilation of studies on (re)conceptualized traditions in a wide variety of discourses such as the language of emotion, folklore, religion and morality, the natural environment, idioms and proverbs.

Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations.

The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre.

Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the primitive sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland's artistic production and the wider global cultural production of postcolonial literature.

Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping - even rediscovery - by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology.

Über Hofmannsthal und sein Nachdenken darüber, was Lesen - und auch Schreiben - von Literatur für die Entwicklung der Persönlichkeit bedeutet.

The first critical monograph to benefit from the textual rigour of Archie Burnett's landmark edition of The Complete Poems (2012), Radical Larkin celebrates Larkin's technical genius by offering seven in-depth analyses of the stylistic strategies he used to create eleven of his most famous poems.

This book addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially masculinity in some of its forms through an interdisciplinary methodology.

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

100 stunning, ingenious and absorbing infographics all about literature, featuring your favourite books and authors!

First published in 1980, Dante the Maker examines the great Italian poet's creative processes and presents a wider perspective on Dante.

Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "e;other"e;-yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality.

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

This book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of understanding how literary works remember other literary works.

GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a "e;genre turn"e; in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory.

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of which include a focus on language, from a Lacanian perspective.

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events.

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene.

Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers.

Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politics to the multilateralism of transnational politics.

Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts.

This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender.

Comparing and evaluating modern theories of myth, this book offers an overview of explanations of myth from the social sciences and the humanities.

This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism.

Using methods in literary studies and black critical theory, this Element exposes the violent grammar that structures many ecological writings.

This volume examines the idea of India as it emerges in the writing of its anglophone elite, post-2000.

This book offers a cutting-edge interpretation of the philosophy of F.