Literary theory

This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages.

This book investigates fiction in English, written within, and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing so it introduces the term 'Bharati Fantasy'.

Was meinen wir, wenn wir von Welt, Erde und globalen Problemen sprechen.

This is a book of meditative reading.

Über 500 verschiedene Minnereden sind heute noch erhalten.

Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at one of the most appealing mystics and pilgrims of 15th-century England.

This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Explores English and Scottish court poetry written in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Literature has always recorded a history of patriarchy, sexual violence, and resistance.

The traditional view that the rise of Western theoretical thought in the 1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet 1920s, once accepted in Russia and the West alike because it directly associated the academic prestige of contemporary Western theory with the intellectual climate of post-revolutionary Russia, is increasingly challenged today.

A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse.

Formerly a site of study reserved for intellectual historians and political philosophers, scholarship on religious toleration, from the perspective of literary scholars, is fairly limited.

The Politics and Poetics of Camp is a radical reappraisal of the meaning and discourse of camp.

Examining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates the multicultural and transnational characters that comprise his fiction while locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English country gentleman.

Resilience discourse has recently become a global phenomenon, infiltrating the natural and social sciences, but has rarely been undertaken as an important object of study within the field of the humanities.

Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction.

The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and is generally considered to have disappeared with the onset of modernism in the twentieth century.

This cutting-edge collection of essays showcases the work of some of the most influential theorists of the past thirty years as they grapple with the question of how literature should be treated in contemporary theory.

On a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in the United Kingdom: something troubling has apparently been detected during one of their research flights.

The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.

This book examines the ways in which contemporary British and British postcolonial writers in the after-empire era draw connections between magic (defined here as Renaissance Hermetic philosophy) and science.

In 1950, nearly 300 of Europe's leading artists, philosophers and writers formed an international society intended to end the Cold War.

This study investigates a model of syntactic derivations that is based on a new concept of dislocation, i.

This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature.

First published in 1998.

The theory and praxis of ecofeminism has barely been investigated in an Indian context.

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards?

The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from the Elizabethans to the twentieth century.

Narratives of Mediterranean Space: Literature and Art across Land and Sea presents a comparative analysis of contemporary literary and visual narratives of movement and migration produced in Italian, Arabic and French.

Northrop Frye's long career made him Canada's most creative public intellectual.

This volume forms part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series, which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages.

This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys.

First published in 2004.

Fantasy provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the study of this fascinating field.

Unter Vorgeschichte versteht man gewöhnlich die Geschichte der Menschen vor dem Einsatz schriftlicher Zeugnisse.

Wie lässt sich die Autobiographie als Gattung bestimmen?

Thinking in Search of a Language explores American literary and philosophical traditions, and their intimate connections, by focusing on two defining strands in the intellectual history of the United States.

First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V.

An examination of the nineteenth-century American novel that argues for a new genealogy of the concept of the will.

This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of Gilles Deleuze.

"e;At last, a scrupulous and sustained--'earsighted'--study of that shadowy yet vital intersection of sound and sense without which literary reading remains a disembodied exercise.