Literary theory

The Poverty of Structuralism is the first in a sequence of volumes which examine in turn the basic ideas of Saussure, Marx and Freud, and analyse the way in which they have been developed and applied to art, culture and modern textual theory.

Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R.

Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences.

In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world.

This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature.

The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

This book focuses on the cinema of the 1950s in India and analyzes the work of seven filmmakers from mainstream Hindi cinema and how they responded to the independent Indian nation after 1947.

The rise of Creative Writing has been accompanied from the start by two questions: can it be taught, and should it be taught?

The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge.

Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons taught by fiction.

This book is a fierce argument against social and caste discrimination in India, especially untouchability and emphatic call for social justice.

Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone Literary,Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse interrogates Obi Wali,s (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to ,sterility,, as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages.

A fundamental reassessment of the meaning of Freud''s last phase of work: the applied psychoanalysis of culture and society.

While many of Freud's original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such as Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and Taboo, though extremely influential in the early part of the 20th century, have more recently been either neglected or else dismissed as long-outdated fantasies.

'Reading has a history.

Political theory offers a great variety of interpretive traditions and models.

Botlhodi n The Abomination is a powerful story about British colonialism and its aftermath in Molepolole, Botswana.

Over the past decade 'singularity' has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging from philosophy to literary and cultural studies to science and technology studies.

In This Is Not a Copy, Kaja Marczewska identifies a characteristic 'copy-paste' tendency in contemporary culture-a shift in attitude that allows reproduction and plagiarizing to become a norm in cultural production.

Queer Theory is one of the most contested and intellectually complex movements in contemporary sexual politics.

Isobel Hurst examines the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative engagement with classical literature than has previously been acknowledged.

In this book, renowned Renaissance drama critic Arthur F.

The contributors to Territories and Trajectories propose a model of cultural production and transmission based on the global diffusion, circulation, and exchange of people, things, and ideas across time and space.

Futurist Women broadens current debates on Futurism and literary studies by demonstrating the expanding global impact of women Futurist artists and writers in the period succeeding the First World War.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century.

In Just Literature, Tzachi Zamir introduces the idea of 'philosophical criticism' as an innovative approach to interpreting literary texts.

For Kristeva, in a world immersed in readymade images, art or aesthetic experience is a practice that constitutes both a subject (a sense of self) and an object that is able to transform meaning and consciousness.

This book consists of well-chosen legal terms in ancient China, in an effort to delineate the panorama of rule-of-law evolution in China.

Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies.

First published in 1966.

Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond.

What does it mean to be human today?

Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance.

This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy.

In studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, the concept of difference is often a crucial analytic used to detect social agency; however, the alternative analytic of ambiguity has never been systematically examined.

Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine's Confessions, Rousseau's book of the same title, and Salvador Dali's paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions.

This work argues that American literary scholarship enshrines a reactionary vision of history, of narrative, and of America itself.

This book studies the significance and representation of the 'city' in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, and dramatists.

The human protagonists of medieval romance are works in progress.

This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost.

This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women's fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, geographical, caste, class, and regional contexts.

The publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse.

Fiction from the old British Commonwealth once took second place to the literature of England and the United States, but his is no longer the case.

This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of twenty-four essays written by Frank Kermode between 1958 and early 1961, and are all concerned with criticism and fiction.