Literary theory

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 original study examines Jean-Francois Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature.

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.

From William Shakespeare to Marilynne Robinson, this book examines representations of interpersonal reconciliation in works of literature, focusing on how these representations draw on the language of divine forgiveness.

This monograph is a revised and extended version of the Russian edition from 1978.

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Newbolt.

Jean-Michel Rabate uses Nietzsche's image of a "e;pathos of distance,"e; the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns.

Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place.

Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ongoing critical debates over the definition of romance and the genre and artistry of Malory's Morte Darthur.

Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "e;American deconstructionist"e; - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings.

In this updated edition of his brief, engaging book, Robert J.

In this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present.

This book presents a rethinking of the world legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in this era of unspeakable global violence.

Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colonialism remain embedded within the urban fabric of many European capitals.

The study of creativity is as old as western thought.

William Empson was one of the most important poet-critics of the twentieth century, and continues to influence and inspire writers from many divergent critical traditions.

What does it mean to consider philosophy as a species of not just literature but world literature?

In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the current state of literary history.