Literary theory

In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa.

Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social sciences, stressing the need to make Arabic literature available as a world literature, without damaging its own distinctive characteristics.

A full and revealing biography of one of the century's greatest English writers and an icon to a generation.

Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory.

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral to the study of literature.

Elisha's Profile in the Book of Kings uses the tools of literary criticism to read the Elisha narrative as an integral component of the Deuteronomistic History compiled in the aftermath of the Babylonian invasion and destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

Hölderlins Gedicht "Hälfte des Lebens" von 1803 fordert mit seiner bestürzenden Aktualität die Leser und Übersetzer immer neu heraus.

This volume argues that postwar writers queer the affective relations of reading through experiments with literary form.

War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history.

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

Writing Across Worlds brings together a selection of interviews with major international writers previously featured in the pages of the magazine.

This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman studies in relation to Anglophone novels.

Why are material objects so prominent in European Romantic literature, both as symbol and organizing device?

Der Erzähler Ernst Jünger hat bisher im Schatten des Soldaten und konservativen Denkers gestanden.

Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory.

First published in 1962, this book is the first of two volumes which bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and attempt to reconcile the two disciplines.

This Companion provides a guide to queer literary and cultural studies, introducing critical debates in the field and an overview of queer approaches to various genres.

In the fifteenth century the printing press was the 'new technology'.

The Grand Array is a stunning collection of 18 essays by widely published and highly acclaimed poet Pattiann Rogers.

In Ideology and Community in the First Wave of Critical Legal Studies Richard W.

Combining a range of content with self-reflexive examination by scholars and practitioners, this edited volume interrogates the contemporary significance of the avant-garde.

James Joyce's Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women's Writing is a ground-breaking study that, for the first time, explores in depth the influence of James Joyce on Irish women writers, from his contemporaries to more recent voices.

Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund Freud and William James.

Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around.

For at least a decade, university foreign language programs have been in decline throughout the English-speaking world.

Shortlisted for the AATSEEL 2022 Award for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume (AATSEEL is The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages) Theory in the "e;Post"e; Era brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the "e;post"e; era.

This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.

This book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of understanding how literary works remember other literary works.

In recent years, cognitive and affective science have become increasingly important for interpretation and explanation in the social sciences and humanities.

Taking as its point of departure the fundamental observation that games are both technical and symbolic, this collection investigates the multiple intersections between the study of computer games and the discipline of technical and professional writing.

Der Wechsel der literarischen Leitkunst von der Malerei zur Musik um 1800 lässt sich als poetologischer Paradigmenwechsel lesen.

The book examines the salient concepts and practices that have shaped Surrealism as a protean intellectual and cultural movement.

As a rapidly aging continent, Europe increasingly depends on the successful integration of migrants.

First published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth-century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale White and Thomas Hardy.

A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet: Exile and Return focuses on the dialogue created by literature and psychoanalysis in an individual's quest to explore existential issues, such as a sense of belonging to a homeland and a recurring sense of the Uncanny (das unheimliche).

Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H.

This book focuses on how we perceive, know and interpret culture across disciplinary boundaries.

It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s.

First published in 1977, this book looks at the versatile literary form of dramatic monologue.

Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing.

What is satire?

Mark Twain is one of our most accessible cultural icons, a figure familiar to virtually every American and renowned internationally.

Yanagita Kunio almost singlehandedly initiated the serious study of folklore in Japan.

The Poetry of the Invisible (1937) presents the English poets from the author's own Eastern standpoint.

Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness?

'Postmodernism' and 'feminism' have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact.