Literary theory

This Companion, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust''s work.

Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field.

Uses genre theory to explore the composition and purpose of Acts, concluding that it is a work of collected biography.

Royalist Identities shifts the emphasis from the question 'What is Royalism?

Early in the twentieth century, Russia was experiencing a decadent period of cultural degeneration just as science was developing ways to identify medical conditions which supposedly reflected the health of the entire nation.

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 book provides a 5000-year history of the ways in which literary forms have shaped out notions of globalization.

Keppel-Jones's study focuses on a period of 275 years, during which iambic pentameter variations were conducted with special precision.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical, and historical perspectives to the relationship between women's writing and women's rights in British contexts from the late eighteenth century to the present.

This volume explores Shakespeare's interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience's most common responses to tragic drama in the theater.

Desire is a term often used in conjunction with the subject.

This timely volume presents a rich and absorbing selection of extracts from over two hundred leading literary critics of the last several decades, writing on many of the most widely studied literary texts in English, from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison.

Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English (SASE) presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them.

Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the poetic text.

As one of the most adventurous literary and cultural critics of his generation, Terence Hawkes' contributions to the study of Shakespeare and the development of literary and cultural theory have been immense.

With essays on a range of contemporary writers, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.

The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking analysis of the cultural logic of late capitalism, and the late Mark Fisher's work on "e;post-capitalist desire"e; and "e;acid communism.

Focusing on British novels about the Muslim immigrant experience published after 9/11; this book examines the promise as well as the limits of 'British Muslim' identity as a viable form of self-representation, and the challenges - particularly for women - of reconciling non-Western religious identity with the secular policies of Western states.

First published in 1983, this book examines a work whose intricacies have baffled and infuriated generations of readers and proposes a theory of Coleridge's writing habits that "e;explain(s) his explanation"e;.

This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole.

Historicism is the essential introduction to the field, providing its readers with the necessary knowledge, background and vocabulary to apply it in their own studies.

Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation provides the first critical reading of Lacan's formulae of sexuation, examining both their logical consistency and clinical consequences.

Narrative sind immer schon Grundbestand der menschlichen, kulturellen, sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Verständigungshorizonte.

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.

The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century offers new perspectives on contemporary literary adaptation as a dynamically global field.

From Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to Shelley's Frankenstein, The Literature Book documents the greatest literature ever written.

Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public engages with postcolonial and world literature approaches to examine the worldly imaginary of the novel genre and assert the political imperative to teaching world literature.

Despite an impressive body of poems, novels, short stories, and literary criticism; high praise for his writing by French and Swiss critics; and a collection of honours that includes the prestigious Prix Goncourt, awarded for his novel L’Ogre in 1973, Jacques Chessex is relatively unknown outside France and Switzerland.

In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city.

This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides.

Als ein Indikator sich anbahnender epochaler Wandlungen dominiert Phantastik viele Bereiche der Kultur, insbesondere der Alltagskultur.

This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present.

Argues compellingly for a new approach to ancient narrative which goes beyond narratology and is alert to its specific logic.

This volume examines the concerns – political, literary, and identity-based – of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice is a comprehensive and multi- purpose collection on this important topic.

Originally published in 1968, this book traces the development of the emotive theory of ethics from its outline by Ogden and Richards in The Meaning of Meaning to the elaborate presentation by Stevenson in Ethics and Language.

Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies.

Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman epic.

This book revisits Jean Rhys's ground-breaking 1966 novel to explore its cultural and artistic influence in the areas of not only literature and literary criticism, but fashion design, visual art, and the theatre as well.

Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory.

Tess O'Toole uncovers Hardy's career-long fascination with the points of intersection between genealogy and fiction and argues that this relationship fuels much of his writing.

In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism.