Literary theory

A watershed moment of the twentieth century, the end of empire saw upheavals to global power structures and national identities.

Queer Milton is the first book-length study dedicated to anti-heteronormative approaches to the poetry and prose of John Milton.

A wonderfully candid and insightful account of a writer s life William BoydLuck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer s career.

From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries, generating a notion of possibility with unexpected critical potential.

Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film.

This volume contains over forty essays on all aspects of Pound''s life, work and career, by leading scholars in the field.

Roland Barthes is a central figure in the study of language, literature, culture and the media.

In the last half-century Ludwig Wittgenstein's relevance beyond analytic philosophy, to continental philosophy, to cultural studies, and to the arts has been widely acknowledged.

This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality.

In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion.

A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century.

First published in 1998, this title provides for the reader of the renowned metaphysical poet and politician a valuable reference and resource volume.

Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory.

Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India's religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious communities.

Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.

Explores a new area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how landscape and metaphor shape discussions of style.

The law holds up a mirror to society and reflects that society and its ongoing preoccupations.

Chapters 1, 2, and 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.

A dividing line, the border is usually perceived in terms of separation and rupture.

This multi-genre collection of chapters presents the dramatic transformation of English Studies in India since the early 1990s.

Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how posthumanist dream writing unsettles the privileging of the human species over other species.

The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration this can take.

The rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century.

Die Vielfalt und gleichzeitige Begrenztheit der »modernen Epochen« ist freilich nur ein Beispiel für die disperse Lage, in der sich die Bedeutungen von »Moderne« insgesamt befinden.

"e;A Manifesto for Literary Studies,"e; writes Marjorie Garber, is an attempt to remind us of the specificity of what it means to ask literary questions, and the pleasure of thinking through and with literature.

DIm Mittelpunkt stehen die Beiträge der Felder-Tagung "Neue Lesarten und Perspektiven", die im Frühjahr 2021 stattgefunden hat.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Kommentar" verfügbar.

From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization.

Drawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema's century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms, from colonialist expeditions to decolonial radical cinemas to the perceptual voyage of the senses made possible by the cinematic apparatus.

Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century.

Literarische Motive - vom Motiv des Schwimmbads über das Schwert bis hin zum Spiel - sind zentrale Bausteine in Kinder- und Jugendmedien und somit Gegenstand der literatur- und medienwissenschaftlichen wie der literaturdidaktischen Betrachtung.

This title, first published in 1990, argues for the existence of a significant connection between the theories of literature and culture of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) and Iurii Mikhailovich Lotman (1922-1993).

This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "e;liminal"e; narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers.

Humanity's Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy interrogates the nature of reality against fantasy as the two are presented to and created by the human consciousness-a consciousness that is in constant struggle with the omnipresence of misery and the inevitability of death.

Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works.

What is posthumanism and why does it matter?

An exciting introduction to the diversity of approaches to lesbian and gay literature.

A theorization of how the bioeconomy and biotechnology remake ''life itself,'' creating crises in ethics and governance.

Celebrated goldsmith and sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) fits the conventional image of a Renaissance man: a skillful virtuoso and courtier; an artist who worked in marble, bronze, and gold; and a writer and poet.