Literary theory

Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen the inquiry begun in the volume from 2007.

In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major element in contemporary Western conceptions of the self.

This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities.

Originally published as an English translation in 1981, The Middle English Mystics is a crucial contribution to the study of the literature of English mysticism.

This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature.

An accessible overview of the German writer''s life, works, intellectual, historical and cultural background, and the reception of his work.

This book will be the first study to focus exclusively on presentations of the antipodes.

In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions.

Offering an examination of educational approaches to promote justice, this volume demonstrates the necessity for keeping race, ethnicity, class, language, and other diversities at the core of pedagogical strategies and theories that address queer, trans, gender nonbinary and related issues.

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare's texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories.

This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu.

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment.

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels.

Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market provides an original answer to what Sarah Brouillette has called postcolonial studies' 'longstanding materialist challenge', illuminating the relationship between what is often broadly called 'the market' and the practice and positionality of postcolonial critics and their field, postcolonial studies.

The aphorism captures a huge amount of truth, meaning or wit in a very short statement.

Variously translated as "e;estrangement,"e; "e;enstrangement"e; or "e;defamiliarization,"e; Viktor Shklovsky's concept of ostranenie is more relevant than ever.

This study brings new methodologies of literary geography to bear upon the unique contents of a codex known as British Library MS Harley 2253.

For the past three decades, Hollywood has faithfully adapted much of Stephen King's fiction into film.

Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization.

This volume is a rich, innovative volume on emergent Irish literary forms in the Victorian age.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the relationship between colonialism and catastrophe.

Film and television adaptations of classic literature have held a longstanding appeal for audiences, an appeal that this book sets out to examine.

Originally published in 1924, this title is substantially a continuation of Baudouin's earlier work Studies in Psychoanalysis, being an application of psychoanalysis to the theory of aesthetics, as illustrated by a detailed study of the works of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren.

In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts.

First published in 1992, Writing and Censorship in Britain explores the issue of censorship, from a range of cultural and literary perspectives, from the Tudor period to the 1990s.

This volume enacts a project we term 'a politics of form', working to politicise the formal analysis of narrative in novels, life narratives, documentaries, dramas, short prose works and multimodal texts while retaining the form specificity that is distinctive of narratology.

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This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and performance history and studies today.

How can Clarice Lispector's writings help us make sense of the Anthropocene?

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

A concise, informative and clearly written introduction for students beginning to study Said.

Homeric Epic and its Reception, comprising twelve chapter-some previously published but revised for this collection, and others appearing here in print for the first time-offers literary interpretations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.

This book sheds light on aspects of the Korean Wave and Korean media products that are less discussed-Korean literature, webtoon, and mukbang.

This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery.

This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period.

One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s.

Featured on the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading ListFor over 50 years, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science fiction studies through his innovative linking of scifi to utopian studies, formalist and leftist critical theory, and his broader engagement with what he terms "e;political epistemology.

The first work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature.

Das Genre des Dramas in der Gesamtschau.

This book examines the idea of violence in the context of religion and literature.

Reveals the historical impact of dream rhetoric on Chinese modernity and nation-buildingRealism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976.

Much good criticism of Mrquez came in the wake of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the perception of his fiction has been dominated by that novel.

This book explores the formative role of mobilities in the production of our close relationships, proposing that the tracks-both literal and figurative- we lay down in the process play a crucial role in generating and sustaining intimacy.

First published in 2003.