Literary theory

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots.

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War.

The Bidun ( without nationality ) are a stateless community based across the Arab Gulf.

Difference, the key term in deconstruction, has broken free of its rigorous philosophical context in the work of Jacques Derrida, and turned into an excuse for doing theory the easy way.

Although people may not realize it, the modern Christmas book market carries on a Victorian legacy.

Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies.

The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day.

In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P.

In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nineteenth-century America.

In 1991, the publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, the first novel of a bestselling trilogy, inaugurated a tremendous outpouring of cultural production in Japan, Korea, and the United States.

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary theory of early German Romanticism to aesthetic experimentation in both avant-garde art and popular culture.

Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the globe, this pioneering collection of essays explores how geospatial technologies are revolutionizing the discipline of literary studies.

Recently, "e;trans"e; has taken on a number of important theoretical and critical meanings inside and outside the academy.

A Century of Encounters analyzes Arab, American, and European literary depictions of self and other as they interact with each other in Arab North Africa throughout the twentieth century and introduces the trope of the encounter as a lens through which to read contemporary world literature comparatively.

This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.

What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture?

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.

Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: 'biofiction,' 'bioimagination,' and 'biodiscourse' to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology.

'John Berger has made the world a better place to live in.

The Risk of Reading is a defense of the idea that deep and close readings of literature can help us to understand ourselves and the world around us.

First published in 1965, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff is the first book about the great German poetess of the early nineteenth century in English.

In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel.

This monograph analyses Zadie Smith's White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, The Embassy of Cambodia, and Swing Time as trauma fictions that reveal the social, cultural, historical, and political facets of trauma.

The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment.

Rhetoric appears to be a marginal topic for the Bakhtin School and for most Bakhtin scholars, but many rhetorical critics, theorists, and teachers have nonetheless found the school's work compelling and challenging.

Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as reflected in a range of literary writing, including poetry and life-writing.

For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West.

Radical re-evaluation of the genre of declamation and its social and psychic import.

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 author's primary purpose in this short book is to clearly define the nature of value and restore it to a central place in discussions of ethical and aesthetic problems.

While crime fiction is one of the most widespread of all literary genres, this is the first book to treat it in its full global is the first book to treat crime fiction in its full global and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature.

The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.

Brought together, attention and drift help immerse ourselves in our surroundings and make us appreciate the contingent and pulsating relations of living.

This is the first survey of Murdoch's exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives.

This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author, what it has meant historically to be an 'author', and the impact that this has had on literary culture.

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice.

Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses, beliefs, and divinations to create complex characters.

Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception.

Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.

Keppel-Jones's study focuses on a period of 275 years, during which iambic pentameter variations were conducted with special precision.

This book explores the nature-inspired and place-based vlogging activities of five young women who have become global icons in the last five years, and whose digital projects are a form of 'nature life writing' in the Anthropocene.

Milton and the Spiritual Reader considers how John Milton's later works demonstrate the intensive struggle of spiritual reading.

Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad s Novels sets out to revolutionize our reading of Joseph Conrad s works and challenge the critical heritage that accompanies them.

Many women writers in twentieth-century Britain were fascinated by the individual thought processes of their characters.

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant representation in literature, television, and films for children and young adults in the twenty-first century.

Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work.

This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality.

Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue.

Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go.