Literary theory

The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods.

The traditional view of Shakespeare's mastery of the English language is alive and well today.

This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama.

This original volume examines the collaboration between East Timorese and international staff in the rebuilding of the education sector during the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) 1999-2002.

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction.

This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded, to take account both of recent developments in scholarship, and of the recent films directed by Peter Jackson.

Drawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political challenges of the current moment.

The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks.

By considering the disruptive potential of age disparate marriages in nineteenth-century British literature, Godfrey offers provocative new readings of canonical texts including Don Juan, Jane Eyre, and Bleak House.

This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid's myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille's Plaint of Nature, Rene d'Anjou's Love-Smitten Heart, Chretien de Troyes's Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut's Fountain of Love.

Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right.

This book addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially masculinity in some of its forms through an interdisciplinary methodology.

Traditionally, Wordsworth's greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude.

This groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies.

Discrete inquiries into 15 forms of the Arthurian legends produced over the last century explore how they have altered the tradition.

This study analyses four new genres of literature and film that have evolved to accommodate and negotiate the changing face of postcolonial Britain since 1990: British Muslim Bildungsromane, gothic tales of postcolonial England, the subcultural urban novel and multicultural British comedy.

Die Frage nach der Vollkommenheit ist seit der Antike grundlegend für Kunst und Literatur.

Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to understand laughter, humor, and the comic.

How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes?

In einem Zeitalter zahlreicher globaler Umbrüche destabilisieren klimatische, politische und finanzielle Krisen und die daraus resultierenden Kriege und Konflikte gesellschaftliche Strukturen und kulturelle Wertemuster weltweit.

This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism.

Mid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated the globe, giving rise to a modern ecological consciousness; but they also contributed to accelerating crises in the global environment, including climate change, pollution, and waste.

Provoking Curriculum Studies pushes forward a strong reading of the theoretical and methodological innovations taking place within curriculum studies research.

In this new collection, children's literature scholars from twelve different countries contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of picturebook research, focusing on aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picture books.

Many African countries achieved independence from their colonisers over five decades ago, but the people and the continent largely remain mere spectators in the arena of their own dance.

First published in 1982, The Truth of Poetry attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: What kind of truth does poetry offer in modern times?

In this bold new book, Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth traces the broadly established challenges to modernity that now confront historians and citizens of Western societies generally.

This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions.

This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf's modernist poetics.

This book explores the themes of identity, suffering, and hope in the stories of Puerto Rican people to surface the anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology of a Puerto Rican decolonial theology.

Monolingualism is bad; literature is good - right?

This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south.

This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence.

This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the "e;war on terror"e; to advocate for marginalised perspectives.

The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler.

Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious.

The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of the sense that while the theory of biophilia has productively addressed ideal human affinities with nature, the capacity of "e;the biophilia hypothesis"e; as an explanatory model of human/ environment relations is limited.

The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations between literature and cinema.

Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day.