Literary theory

Following on from Julian Wolfrey's successful Writing London (1998), this second volume extends Wolfrey's original argument that a new urban sensibility in the nineteenth century had been developed which established new ways of writing about and responding to the city.

The book presents an intertextual and comparative analysis of memories of violence in Peruvian and Congolese Literature.

Ein deutschsprachiger wissenschaftlicher Gesamtkommentar zu Homers Ilias ist seit dem Kommentar von Ameis-Hentze-Cauer (1868-1913) nicht mehr erschienen.

By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial globalisation on postcolonial rural spaces.

Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies, and propel cultural theory out of its thematic ruts.

This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years.

Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe recaptures for the literary world the inimitable legacies of Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), Africa,s leading novelist and literary philosopher of the 20th century.

This is the first volume to provide a systematic overview of the core concepts in contemporary scholarship of war literature.

Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Sean O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life.

Richard Beaton analyses Isaiah 42.

Enric Valor (1911-2000) is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century.

"e;Theories of memory and fictional recreations of the remembering mind have occupied a central place in French literature since Montaigne.

This book offers a new interpretation of the life and legacy of the Indian reformer and intellectual, Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar (1820-91).

Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically.

In this book on the relationship between picaro and cortesano, Felipe E.

Researchers and educators agree that it takes more than academic knowledge to be prepared for college-intrapersonal competencies like conscientiousness have been proven to be strong determinants of success.

This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman studies in relation to Anglophone novels.

An invaluable introduction to the life and work of one of today's most important cultural critics.

This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism.

Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict.

Rainer Maria Rilke hat der Verkündigung des Todes Gottes, die Friedrich Nietzsche jubelnd und doch unter Schmerzen vorträgt, nicht zugestimmt und sie von seinem Werk ferngehalten.

Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing?

An examination of the literary marketplace''s central role in creating the Southern Literary Renaissance.

This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south.

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired by the idea that literature - especially the literary sublime - might offer us the deepest kind of knowledge.

We are living through a period of planetary crisis, a time in which the mass production and consumption of some animals is made possible by the mass extinction of many others.

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of Romantic and post-Romantic writers.

Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century.

This volume of new and reprinted articles, many translated here into English for the first time, examines the conditions, characteristics, and implications of the debate on Latin American Postmodernism, presenting an up-to-date rendering of its crucial issues.

What is musical subjectivity?

Margaret Drabble is a writer who plays a lively role in both popular and literary culture.

The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively 'modern' notions of truth, property and political order.

'Focusing on francophone writing from North Africa as it has developed since the 1980s, Writing After Postcolonialism explores the extent to which the notion of 'postcolonialism' is still resonant for literary writers a generation or more after independence, and examines the troubled status of literature in society and politics during this period.

What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility?

The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English.

'When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?

This book explores the resistance of three English poets to Francis Bacon's project to restore humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, moving beyond a discussion of the tension between Bacon and these poetic voices to suggest theywere also debating the narrative of humanity's intellectual path.

This book examines the conceptual, existential, and logical conditions under which the philosophical novel can be treated as a literary genre on a par with generally recognized literary genres, such as mystery, romantic, adventure, religious, or historical novel.

According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers' responses.

Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T.