Literary theory

In this ambitious work, Collin Jennings applies computational methods to eighteenth-century fiction, history, and poetry to reveal the nonlinear courses of reading they produce.

Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one.

This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva's work on American literary and film studies.

Originally published in 1991, Medieval Texts and Images is a collection of essays which critically examines medieval manuscripts.

First published in 1979, this collection of thirty-nine essays on the novel drawn from seventeen periodicals demonstrates the primary concerns of those discussing the nature and purpose of prose fiction in the period from 1870 to 1900.

This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao's writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic writing in the 20th century.

The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form.

In Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan examines what makes an individual a particular, unique self.

Originally published in 1987, "e;Fanned and Winnowed Opinions"e; celebrates the scholarship of Professor Harold Jenkins, one of this century's foremost editors and critics of Shakespeare.

The modern fantasy novel might hardly seem to need a defence, but its position in contemporary literature in the 1980s was still rather ambivalent.

This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, 'The Adolescent Novel', in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an 'open structure'.

Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.

Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry.

This book draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to argue for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others.

Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide range of socio-political concerns.

Digital Milton is the first volume to investigate John Milton in terms of our digital present.

Christopher Falzon argues in this book for a new way of understanding film as philosophy.

This book considers the complex ways in which the hotel functions to express the shifting experiences of modernity in the works of such authors as Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, H.

What is criticism?

This book is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an unusual angle.

This book considers metaphor as a communicative phenomenon in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney, in light of the relevance theory account of communication first developed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson in the 1980s.

The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice.

Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it?

Evolving from a rigorous study of post-9/11 women's writing, Dr.

While the it-narrative, the thing-poem and thing theatre have been around for some time, the essay - which is often considered literature's fourth genre - is still lacking its thing-subgenre.

Imperialism is a transnational and transhistorical phenomenon; it occurs neither in limited areas nor at one specific moment.

The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature provides an invaluable resource for those interested in deepening their understanding of the variety of theories and approaches available when AI is studied or deployed in literary contexts.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computing, LSSC 23021, which was held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, during June 7-11, 2021.

Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of a generation.

The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms provides a powerful suite of innovative contributions by both leading thinkers and emerging scholars in the field.

A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers.

This book charts the development of creative writing, bringing it from China to the world.

Speculative Affect: Objects and Emotions is an edited collection examining the intersection between affect and objects in the fields of literature, cultural theory, and cultural production.

These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters.

This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond.

"Harmonisch entgegengesetzt" ist ein Grundwort der Hölderlinschen Poetologie und als das Verhältnis von Einheit und Differenz zugleich die Grundstruktur von "Darstellung" in der abendländischen Philosophie und Dichtung.

This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist techniques to explore national issues in relation to global capitalism.

The Performance of Reading argues that there are distinct analogies between "e;silent"e; reading and artistic performance, and so fashions the new role of the reader as performer.

In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "e;state of exception"e;: an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended.

Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy studies Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) in relation to maritime criticism.

Postcolonialism is a book that examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship.

This book not only discloses and examines different functions and concepts of authorship in fiction and theory from the 1950s and 1960s to the present but it also reveals, at least implicitly, a trajectory of some of the modes and functions of the novel as a genre in the last few decades.

This study-referred to as a "e;preface"e; is given this designation because its aim is not to offer an up-to-date overall assessment Dryden's translation of Virgil's neid, but rather to provide a valid basis for such an assessment.