Literary theory

In this volume of writings from Bangla and Urdu literature, editors Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta raise issues of language, identity, nationhood and varied aspects of feminism and women's writings in the Indian subcontinent.

An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of modernism critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites, concentrating Russian and Luso-Brazilian cultural dialogue and definition, give rise to peculiarly parallel anachronistic and alternative fictional forms.

This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity.

The first study in English to chart the development of the Palestinian novel in exile and under occupation from 1948 onwards.

The poetry of Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies represents a second golden age of Greek literature.

Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy.

Latinx Literature Now engages with a diverse collection of works in Latinx literary studies, critical theory, and the philosophy of history, as well as a wide range of Latinx literary texts, in order to offer readers an alternative model of how Latinx literary scholarship and Latinx literary criticism might go about doing their work.

Gunter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism.

Sigmund Freud's 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an "e;unknown"e; text.

Frauen sind ängstlich, Männer mutig.

Letters were an important medium of everyday communication in the ancient Mediterranean.

Dionysus, god of dismemberment and sponsor of the lost or abandoned feminine, originates both Jungian psychology and literature in Remembering Dionysus.

This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin's 1923 essay "e;Die Aufgabe des Ubersetzers,"e; best known in English under the title "e;The Task of the Translator.

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events.

This title was first published in 2001.

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

The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada explores the exciting world of nonfiction writing about the self, designed to give teachers and students the tools they need to study both canonical and lesser-known works.

This monograph is a study of the work of British author A.

Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture.

First published in 1991, this book collects a broad array of path-finding scholarship by specialists in Coleridge and Romantic literature on the subject of his prose.

Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies.

In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism.

This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of material inscriptions and the systems view of media ecology, which considers media as complex nodes of exchange.

This book turns our search for intimacy on its head, suggesting that our way to creativity in love may be through idiocy.

Shows how current photographic discourse can illuminate the analysis of recent literary realism and proposes a truly original photographic hermeneutics for literary study.

Ann Kelly's provocative book breaks the mold of Swift studies.

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.

How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America-Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean-are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals?

This accessible and authoritative guide to the theory and practice of stylistics encompasses both traditional textual analysis and recent innovations.

This book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War.

Problematic assumptions which see humans as special and easily defined as standing apart from animals, plants, and microbiota, both consciously and unconsciously underpin scientific investigation, arts practice, curation, education, and research across the social sciences and humanities.

Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis.

This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century.

Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict.

Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology asks two questions: How do we read (in) the Anthropocene?