Literary theory

Examination of literacy and reading habits in nineteenth-century Ireland and implications for an emerging cultural nationalism.

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.

A collection examining representations of the embodied self in the writings of Milton and his contemporaries.

The Poetics of Insecurity explores how American literary writers forged a cultural imaginary in which insecurity acts as an enlivening force.

Comparatively studies, through both form and content, the development of Arabic and Persian modernist poetry during the mid-twentieth century.

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers 24 case studies of mainstream and independent video games from Tetris to The Sims, Undertale to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Assassin's Creed to Gone Home in order to introduce key video game and literary studies concepts, ideas, definitions, and possibilities.

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers 24 case studies of mainstream and independent video games from Tetris to The Sims, Undertale to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Assassin's Creed to Gone Home in order to introduce key video game and literary studies concepts, ideas, definitions, and possibilities.

"Andersch war nicht Trinker, nicht Frauenjäger, nicht süchtig.

Wolfdietrich Schnurre wurde mit einem kleinen Ausschnitt seines Gesamtwerks zum kanonischen Autor, vor allem mit seinen Kurzgeschichten der Nachkriegsjahre ("Als Vaters Bart noch rot war").

Der Anteil von Frauen im literarischen Feld der 1950er Jahre spiegelt ihr öffentliches Auftreten insgesamt wider – in der ernsthaften Literatur liegt er knapp über zehn Prozent.

Gelten die bisher erschienenen treibhaus-Bände in autorspezifischen und übergreifenden Themen der Literatur der fünfziger Jahre unmittelbar, so scheint es nach über einem halben Jahrhundert Distanz reizvoll, in wechselnder Perspektive die fünfziger Jahre im autobiografischen Rückblick wahrzunehmen.

"Wenn ich ›Europa‹ dachte, so war es eigentlich immer die Schweiz: dies freie, kleine, aber nicht enge, sondern vielgestaltige und mehrsprachige, von europäischer Luft durchwehte und nach seiner Natur so großartige Land.

Wie hat die Literatur im Land der Täter die ungeheuerlichen NS-Verbrechen thematisiert?

Als "Insel der Seligen" oder "Diktatur der Gartenzwerge" wird das Österreich der 1950er Jahre wahrgenommen.

In this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie, and mischievous insight that exposes the carbonised scaffolding of late-capitalist life.

In der vergangenen Dekade war die Idee der europäischen Integration zunehmender Kritik ausgesetzt.

In der vergangenen Dekade war die Idee der europäischen Integration zunehmender Kritik ausgesetzt.

In this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie, and mischievous insight that exposes the carbonised scaffolding of late-capitalist life.

Die kleine prosaische Form ist die Verwandlungskunstlerin unter den literarischen Textsorten.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Diamela Eltit's recent novels, highlighting how her experimental narratives engage with Chile's evolving social and political landscape.

London during the mid- and late-Victorian period was a place of refuge from the tensions of France.

London during the mid- and late-Victorian period was a place of refuge from the tensions of France.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Diamela Eltit's recent novels, highlighting how her experimental narratives engage with Chile's evolving social and political landscape.

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within three plays from different times in Shakespeare's career through a Jungian framework.

Evolving Strategies for Writing Feedback on Creative Manuscripts: A Multi-Genre Pedagogy Guide is a practical and essential resource for instructors of undergraduate and graduate creative writing courses.

Dante's Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development of Dante's poetics and in his theological reflection, suggesting, for the first time, the paramount role which Dante played within the history of emotions.

Dante's Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development of Dante's poetics and in his theological reflection, suggesting, for the first time, the paramount role which Dante played within the history of emotions.

Der Band sondiert Potentiale und Dimensionen des Konzepts der Idiorrhythmie, wie es Roland Barthes in seiner Vorlesung Comment vivre ensemble 1976/77 konturierte.

Dieser Band zeichnet Peripetien individueller Subjektivität in der spätmodernen und postmodernen Literatur nach.

Dieser Band zeichnet Peripetien individueller Subjektivität in der spätmodernen und postmodernen Literatur nach.

From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played a pivotal role in Salman Rushdie's fiction.

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within three plays from different times in Shakespeare's career through a Jungian framework.

Evolving Strategies for Writing Feedback on Creative Manuscripts: A Multi-Genre Pedagogy Guide is a practical and essential resource for instructors of undergraduate and graduate creative writing courses.

From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played a pivotal role in Salman Rushdie's fiction.

Die sogenannte Fruhmittelhochdeutsche Literatur' (etwa 1060-1180) hat der mediavistischen Forschung stets Schwierigkeiten bereitet.

Die sogenannte Fruhmittelhochdeutsche Literatur' (etwa 1060-1180) hat der mediavistischen Forschung stets Schwierigkeiten bereitet.

We tend to think of ourselves using language.

We tend to think of ourselves using language.