Literary theory

The present book examines William Carlos Williams's negotiation with cultural modes and systems of the Chinese landscape tradition in his landscape writing.

This book engages with the writings of W.

Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in theanglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts,music and film.

Augustine in Context assesses the various contexts - historical, literary, cultural, spiritual - in which Augustine lived and worked.

The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "e;traffic"e; between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book.

Traces the silences through which medieval literature spoke volumes about closeted sexual behavior and identities.

This book offers cutting-edge, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research in the blossoming field of fat studies.

This international encyclopedia documents and surveys, for the first time, the entire complex of translation as well as the operations and phenomena associated with it.

First published in 1982, this title grew from a series of essays on various aspects of narrative style; the result is a finished product that melds literary theory with linguistic methodology.

Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre.

Das Buch untersucht paratextuelle Rahmen literarischer Werke aus der zweiten Hälfte des 18.

The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery.

The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing forms a theoretical, comprehensive, and critically astute overview of the history and future of Pakistani literature in English.

Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by adultery throughout the long history of western cultures.

In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch's major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the Rerum vulgarium fagmenta, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness, occupied with issues which are still central to debates about poetry and language.

This volume advances a comprehensive transdisciplinary approach to the affective lives of institutions - theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and critical.

Written not so long after "e;Tolkien mania"e; first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K.

The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts.

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, and race.

By the late eighteenth century, universities in England and Germany had lost their sense of purpose.

Lesbians and gays have gone from "e;coming out,"e; to "e;acting up,"e; to "e;outing,"e; meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender.

This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed.

This book explores how literary texts envision England and respond to discourses and conceptions of Englishness and the English nation, especially in relation to gender and language.

This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come.

First Published in 2000.

Der Autor stellt die Methoden des literaturwissenschaftlichen Umgangs mit Gedichten vor und veranschaulicht sie an zahlreichen Beispielen aus der deutschsprachigen Lyrik vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart.

What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic?

Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry examines the transactions between the two main languages of Irish literature, English and Irish, and their formative role in contemporary poetry by Irish women.

In this engaging book, Maria Chiara D'Argenio delineates a turn in recent Latin American filmmaking towards inter/cultural feature films made by non-Indigenous directors.

What is Colonialism?

Filling a significant gap in contemporary criticism of recent prose fiction, this book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts.

Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature - from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare - Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing: a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other a new theory of poetic realism in both canonical and postcolonial literatures a re-reading of the Enlightenment legacy in terms of postcolonial liberation theory a comparison of contemporary debates on the real across the humanities and the sciences.

The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realms of children's literature.

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors.

Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition.

Austen After 200 explores our contemporary relationship with Jane Austen in the wake of the bicentenaries of her death and the first publication of her novels.

A study of how forced exile from 1930s Germany informed the scholarship of four German-speaking, Jewish intellectuals.

In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity.

Extending the limits of the award-winning Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers (2016) and its companion volume (and also award-winning) Researching the Nineteenth-Century Press: Case Studies (2017), Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press: Living Work for Living People advances our knowledge of how our identities have become inextricably defined by work.

Exemplary Spenser analyses the didactic poetics of The Faerie Queene, renewing attention to its avowed attempt to "e;fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline"e; and examining how Spenser mobilises his pedagogic concerns through the reading experience of the poem.

A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.

The Song of Songs , with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase.

This study considers cultural representations of "e;brown"e; people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards.

The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought.

In Victor Frankenstein, the Monster and the Shadows of Technology: The Frankenstein Prophecies, Romanyshyn asks eight questions that uncover how Mary Shelley's classic work Frankenstein haunts our world.