The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical, and historical perspectives to the relationship between women's writing and women's rights in British contexts from the late eighteenth century to the present.
First published in 1949, Kafka: His Mind and Art begins with an extended analysis of the Kafka literature, with emphasis on its shortcomings and their effect on Kafka's vogue.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical, and historical perspectives to the relationship between women's writing and women's rights in British contexts from the late eighteenth century to the present.
This book takes the groundbreaking work of Lee Edelman in queer theory and, for the first time, demonstrates its importance and relevance to contemporary theology, biblical studies, and religious studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics.
This book takes the groundbreaking work of Lee Edelman in queer theory and, for the first time, demonstrates its importance and relevance to contemporary theology, biblical studies, and religious studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics.
Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general.
In Fugitive Time, Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world.
Sartres grundlegendes Werk über das Wesen der Literatur, das zugleich ein Schlüsselwerk seines Denkens ist, entstand 1947 als Antwort auf eine Polemik: Man hatte Sartre vorgeworfen, er wolle mit seiner Forderung nach einem Engagement der Literatur diese in den Dienst politischer Zwecke stellen und zur Tendenzliteratur machen, Sartre wies diesen Vorwurf zurück, indem er die für die Literatur grundlegenden Fragen zu beantworten versuchte: Was ist Schreiben?
This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature, but also a groundbreaking minoritarian exponent of philosophical literature.
Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory argues that the train is a loaded trope for reconfiguring narrative theories past their "e;spatial turn.
Die interdisziplinär angelegte Studie widmet sich der Untersuchung der Überlieferungs- und Textgeschichte, der literarischen Autorschaft und den Erzählverfahren frauenmystischer Viten- und Offenbarungsliteratur des Spätmittelalters.
The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of which include a focus on language, from a Lacanian perspective.
The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of which include a focus on language, from a Lacanian perspective.
Narratives of Women's Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women's social, physical, and mental health.
Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the representation of plants in Australian children's and young adult literature, encompassing colonial, postcolonial, and Indigenous perspectives.
GCSE Literature Boost: A Christmas Carol uses academic criticism and theory to relight your literary passion for this classic text and put a newfound excitement in your pedagogy.
This volume brings together a group of most highly acclaimed Canadian writers and distinguished international experts on Canadian literature to discuss what potential Janice Kulyk Keefer's concept of "e;historiographic ethnofiction"e; has for ethnic writing in Canada.
Statt abstrakt politische sind es bei Abdulrazak Gurnah konkret persönliche Situationen, in denen die Möglichkeiten und Bedingungen des internationalen Zusammenlebens ausgehandelt werden.
Fiktionalität und Poetizität, Formen des Fantastischen in der Literatur, Psychologie und Literaturwissenschaft, Literarische Imagologie und Stereotypenforschung – diese Studien befassen sich mit Grundfragen der Allgemeinen Literaturwissenschaft in theoretischen Darstellungen und Reflexionen und in exemplarischen Analysen weltliterarischer Texte der norwegischen, schwedischen, finnischen und färingischen Literatur.
»Imaginarien des Bösen« befasst sich mit der räumlichen Darstellung des Bösen in ausgewählten Werken von José Eustasio Rivera, Jorge Luis Borges und Alejo Carpentier.
This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a woman's non-consent a logical impossibility.
This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a woman's non-consent a logical impossibility.
This book explores the emergence and development of multilingual fiction series, a relatively new phenomenon propelled by the globalization of media industries and the consolidation of streaming platforms as central vectors in the production and consumption of audiovisual entertainment content.
Narratives of Women's Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women's social, physical, and mental health.
Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the representation of plants in Australian children's and young adult literature, encompassing colonial, postcolonial, and Indigenous perspectives.
Throughout this enlightening collection, Neil Maizels considers the helical tandem between the Life Instinct and the Death drive in the light of canonical literary figures like Thomas Hardy, Patricia Highsmith, Sylvia Plath and Shakespeare, classic filmmakers like Hitchcock and contemporary television shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, The West Wing and Succession.
Throughout this enlightening collection, Neil Maizels considers the helical tandem between the Life Instinct and the Death drive in the light of canonical literary figures like Thomas Hardy, Patricia Highsmith, Sylvia Plath and Shakespeare, classic filmmakers like Hitchcock and contemporary television shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, The West Wing and Succession.
