Literary theory

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A paradox: Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Louis Zukofsky all wrote their central works to be "e;masterpieces,"e; synoptic views of the world that would change the very consciousness of the public.

Taking Back Desire studies film, television and video art texts through a Lacanian prism to restore a sense of queer as troubling identity and resistance to neoliberal forms of inclusion.

Otto Hofler (1901-1987) was an Austrian Germanist and Scandinavist.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Desastre: lo que queda por decir cuando se ha dicho todo, ruina del habla, desfallecimiento de la escritura, rumor que murmura, lo que resta sin resto; siempre por venir, siempre pasado; histórico fuera-de-la-historia.

This book explores Tagore's socio-political ideas through his novels, short stories, and essays.

This book looks at Pakistani fiction from an environmental perspective, focusing on the novels of the internationally renowned author Uzma Aslam Khan.

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th Century and which became so important to modernism.

This book examines the various ways in which colonialism in Zimbabwe is remembered, looking both at how people analyse, perceive, and interpret the past, and how they rewrite that past, elevating some players and their historical agency.

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyzes the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference is characterized by ongoing transformations of spatiality and body, and of essentiality and normativity.

This monograph offers new insights into the fundamentals of literary theory.

Reading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction.

Este libro pretende desarrollar un objeto crítico específico (delimitado en su momento por Edward Said y Roland Barthes), los relatos y los dispositivos de comienzo en las ficciones, estudiando tres grandes modalidades al respecto: origen, infancia, comienzos de escritura.

This book develops a critical intervention in the politics of time and anticolonial aesthetics.

Originally published in 1991, this elegantly written book offers new readers a useful approach to the work of Evelyn Waugh and will persuade those familiar with it to look at it afresh.

"Extravagantly influential literary pieces that have not been scratched by dictionaries or affected by time.

This volume oversees the fluctuating, but close relationship of motherhood studies, maternal theory, and feminism in Marina Warner's fiction and short stories.

Puzzling Modernism in Twentieth-Century Literature identifies a sustained interest in puzzles, such as the jigsaw and Fifteen Puzzle, dating back to the 1880s in the United States, and argues that puzzles appealed to modernist authors because they offer a framework for acknowledging the grim realities of modern life without sacrificing the possibility for reconnection and regaining a sense of wholeness.

Puzzling Modernism in Twentieth-Century Literature identifies a sustained interest in puzzles, such as the jigsaw and Fifteen Puzzle, dating back to the 1880s in the United States, and argues that puzzles appealed to modernist authors because they offer a framework for acknowledging the grim realities of modern life without sacrificing the possibility for reconnection and regaining a sense of wholeness.

The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models of the future, including print, media, race, gender and social justice.

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

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

Presenting pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism, this book sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism.

Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations.

This book presents my concept of poetic thinking in the context of debates around the anthropological question, that is 'what is being human?

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years, a period characterized by a constant process of re-definition and change.

Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children's and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism.

Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature considers the psychoanalytic applications of three classic works of nineteenth-century literature, applying Lacanian concepts throughout.

The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models of the future, including print, media, race, gender and social justice.

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years, a period characterized by a constant process of re-definition and change.

This book explores the diversity-related labour that marginalized faculty, students, and staff are expected to perform because of their social identities - i.

This book explores the diversity-related labour that marginalized faculty, students, and staff are expected to perform because of their social identities - i.