Literary theory

Computational linguistics can be used to uncover mysteries in text which are not always obvious to visual inspection.

This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism.

This book considers the work of the novelist and critic A.

Aus den modernen Biowissenschaften, der Pharmazie und Medizin ist die instrumentelle Bioanalytik heute nicht mehr wegzudenken.

Scholars, librarians, students, and database vendors have all applauded the increase in access to rare, old, venerated, and obscure texts that has resulted from the rise of electronic resources.

This volume explores the possibilities and potentialities of "e;negative"e; affect in postcolonial literature and literary theory, featuring work on postcolonial studies, First Nations studies, cognitive cultural studies, cognitive historicism, reader response theory, postcolonial feminist studies, and trauma studies.

A captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day.

Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora.

Originally published in 1985.

The book offers a novel approach to the question of how to model narrativity against the background of perspectivization.

Published in 1988, and including all seven of Robert Browning's dramas, Collins and Shroyer introduce this convenient and reliable reading text by discussing the plays with a history of criticism and giving insightful notes on each individual play in the book.

Wissenschaftliche Texte der vormodernen"e; Welt konfrontieren die modernen Bearbeiter und Rezipienten mit besonderen Problemen: Eine Ubertragung in den zeitgenossischen Wissenschaftsjargon ebnet womoglich die Fremdheit der Konzepte ungebuhrlich ein, wahrend eine die Perspektive der Texte selbst betonende Wiedergabe Gefahr lauft, fachfremde Interessenten an inadaquate, oft veraltete, wenn auch leichter lesbare Ubersetzungen zu verweisen.

Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium.

The Postmodernist novel has become famous for the extremes of its narcissistic involvement with language.

Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.

California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels: Exiled from Eden focuses on the concept of Californian identity in the fiction of Joan Didion.

Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that characterize technological development.

This book explores how television series can be understood as a form of literature, bridging the gap between literary and television studies.

Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments addresses a longstanding question in literary and cultural studies: how can a case be made for the ongoing value of the humanities without an articulation of that field's social effects?

Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields.

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers interpretive, analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms of autoethnography from around the globe.

Originally published in 1990, Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances tackles the long-standing issue of the role of memorization in the transmission of Middle English romances.

As Spaniards set out to transform the political, social and cultural landscape of the nation following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, its crime fiction traces, challenges and celebrates these radical changes.

This remarkable volume challenges scholars and students to look beyond a dominant European and North American 'metropolitan bank' of Shakespeare knowledge.

We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters.

Richard Rorty has transformed the way many inside and outside philosophy think about the discipline.

Literature with A White Helmet explores issues of refugee writers, contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction on the refugee's body and experience, the biopolitics of refugees, and disputes over the ethicality of representing refugees by writers and human rights activists.

A comprehensive account of Borges''s life and work, including his early and late poetry, and his hugely influential short stories.

Paul de Man's work is key to the American deconstruction movement and to the so-called political turn in critical theory.

This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS).

This book considers pornography as a bridge between screen cultures and screen memories.

Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage.

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Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 asks whether post-9/11 America has chosen the 'wrong side of paradise' by waging war on terror rather than working for global peace.

Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism serves as both introduction to Cavell for Romanticists, and to the larger question of what philosophy means for the reading of literature, as well as to the importance and relevance of Romantic literature to Cavell's thought.

This book examines the lyric poetry of the late modernist W.

Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end.

This book interprets the ideas, thoughts and concepts that characterize the writings and philosophy of Albert Camus for our contemporary times.

Presenting an engaging reflection on the work of prominent modern Iranian literary artists in exchange with contemporary Continental literary criticism and philosophy, this book tracks the idea of silence - through the prism of poetics, dreaming, movement, and the body - across the textual imaginations of both Western and Middle Eastern authors.

Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity explores the notion of subjectivity implicated in and articulated by Said in his writings.

In Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy (2019), Jeffrey Friedman presented a sweeping reinterpretation of modern politics and government as technocratic, even in many of its democratic dimensions.

Newark studies the development of a key device in French fiction of the nineteenth century: the soirée à l''Opéra.

Writing Migration through the Body builds a study of the body as a mutable site for negotiating and articulating the transnational experience of mobility.