Literary theory

Digital Milton is the first volume to investigate John Milton in terms of our digital present.

This volume explores the cultural meaning of several supernatural creatures in Arabia, tracing the historical development of these creatures and their recent representations in the Western world.

This book is a critical introduction to J.

The twentieth-century reality in the Unites States was harsh for Japanese immigrants who attempted to settle down and follow their dreams in the new land.

Brenda Marshall engages with both literary texts and theory, providing an accessible and rigorous introduction to everything you wanted to know about postmodernism.

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror.

Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers' marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings.

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare to different genres and media.

The Ecrits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life.

Leaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender expectations, and social services.

This book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature.

Michael Elsässer zeigt einen neuen Weg in die Philosophie Schlegels, des bedeutendsten Theoretikers der Frühromantik.

With its demand that works of art be judged according to the their morally didactic content, Tolstoy's reviled aesthetics has seemed to exclude from the canon far too many works widely accepted as masterpieces, including Shakespeare and Beethoven.

Today, churches, political parties, trade unions, and even national sports teams are no guarantee of social solidarity.

This edition, first published in 2000, offers serious students of Kant a richer, more complete and accurate translation.

In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "e;state of exception"e;: an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended.

Joan Rois de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature.

Shakespeare and Emotional Expression offers an exciting new way of considering emotional transactions in Shakespearean drama.

Reflects on and re-imagines the role of the scholarly edition and its reader in the twenty-first century.

Drawing on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, this book intervenes into debates concerning the relation between jealousy and envy on the one hand, and sexual difference on the other.

Sullivan discusses each term separately, gathering them from Euripides' seventeen extant tragedies and from fragments of other plays.

The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people.

The book examines the salient concepts and practices that have shaped Surrealism as a protean intellectual and cultural movement.

What is narrative?

First published in 1962, this book is the first of two volumes which bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and attempt to reconcile the two disciplines.

This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry.

At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies.

In this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis.

Edward Said is widely recognized for his work as a critic and theorist of Orientalism and the Palestine crisis, but far less attention has been devoted to his considerable body of literary and cultural criticism.

The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts.

Tracking ideas of the child in Chinese society across the twentieth century, Kate Foster places fictional children within the story of the nation in a study of tropes and themes which range from images of strength and purity to the murderous and amoral.

Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions redefines the critical picture of language as a system of signs and ideological tropes inextricably linked to human existence.

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the localized impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies.

Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a 21st century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances sounding through Beckett''s writing.

An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization.

This Companion is a comprehensive examination of the varied ways in which gender issues manifest throughout culture in Japan, using a range of international perspectives to examine private and public constructions of identity, as well as gender- and sexuality-inflected cultural production.

This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace.

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering world of literary theory for the first time.

The current revival of interest in ethics in literary criticism coincides fortuitously with a revival of interest in love in philosophy.

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.

Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-known writers, Oskar Panizza and Mynona (Salomo Friedlaender).

The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter is a multidisciplinary intervention into postcolonial theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire.

Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives, and Representations believes that the experiences of horror are not just individual but also/simultaneously cultural.

Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women?