Literary theory

Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.

Grief Memoirs: Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance bridges literary studies and psychology to evaluate contemporary grief memoirs for use by bereaved and non-bereaved individuals.

Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling.

Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling.

Grief Memoirs: Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance bridges literary studies and psychology to evaluate contemporary grief memoirs for use by bereaved and non-bereaved individuals.

Originally published in 1981, this book examines the progress of a number of national efforts to move towards economic self-reliance.

Originally published in 1981, this book examines the progress of a number of national efforts to move towards economic self-reliance.

Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as 'traditional performance' and African theatre'.

Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as 'traditional performance' and African theatre'.

An argument that humanists have the toolsand the responsibilityto mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change?

Professional historians, schools, colleges and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history.

This book explores the connections between drag stardom and contemporary sexual and cultural politics in the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise.

This book explores the connections between drag stardom and contemporary sexual and cultural politics in the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise.

Professional historians, schools, colleges and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history.

This rich volume is dedicated to the astounding South African writer and literary critic Lewis Nkosi (1936n2010).

This book addresses the way cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions that are central to debates in World Literature.

Cicero''s dialogue on oratory responded to the political crisis of Julius Caesar but ultimately invented ''modern'' literary history.

This Element explains publishing practices, authorship, and the cultural setting enforcing the publish or perish paradigm in the humanities.

In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H.

First published in 1979, Virginia Woolf is an original critical study of where the author considers Virginia Woolf's non-fiction as well as fiction, exploring the different ways Woolf sought to embody her artistic vision throughout her remarkable literary career.

First published in 1979, Virginia Woolf is an original critical study of where the author considers Virginia Woolf's non-fiction as well as fiction, exploring the different ways Woolf sought to embody her artistic vision throughout her remarkable literary career.

Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected postcard materialities, as they relate to the archiving, editing, publishing, and fictional repurposing of postcards across Anglo-American Literary Modernism (1880-1939).

Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected postcard materialities, as they relate to the archiving, editing, publishing, and fictional repurposing of postcards across Anglo-American Literary Modernism (1880-1939).

The fourth edition of this classic beginner's guide to literary studies has been fully updated throughout.

Theory Conspiracy provides a state-of-the-art collection that takes stage on the meeting and/or battlegrounds between conspiracy theory and theory-asconspiracy.

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

Theory Conspiracy provides a state-of-the-art collection that takes stage on the meeting and/or battlegrounds between conspiracy theory and theory-asconspiracy.

This book examines the validity of the notion of the 'vernacular' and the position of the so-called 'vernaculars' in colonial and postcolonial settings.

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly.

This book examines the validity of the notion of the 'vernacular' and the position of the so-called 'vernaculars' in colonial and postcolonial settings.

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

The fourth edition of this classic beginner's guide to literary studies has been fully updated throughout.

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly.

This is a comprehensive and up-to-date critical examination of cultural diversity in Germanic-speaking societies.

Cicero''s dialogue on oratory responded to the political crisis of Julius Caesar but ultimately invented ''modern'' literary history.

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture and cultural modernity in Kolkata from the early colonial period to the beginning of the era of India's economic liberalization.

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture and cultural modernity in Kolkata from the early colonial period to the beginning of the era of India's economic liberalization.

This Element explains publishing practices, authorship, and the cultural setting enforcing the publish or perish paradigm in the humanities.

In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H.

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.

Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked.

Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked.