Literary theory

The Secret Symmetry of Maimonides and Freud presents the parallels between The Guide of the Perplexed and The Interpretation of Dreams, considering how Maimonides might be perceived as anticipating Freud's much later work.

The Secret Symmetry of Maimonides and Freud presents the parallels between The Guide of the Perplexed and The Interpretation of Dreams, considering how Maimonides might be perceived as anticipating Freud's much later work.

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora.

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora.

This book argues that philosophical pessimism can offer vital impulses for contemporary cultural studies.

While celebrating the centenary of the "e;annus mirabilis"e; of modernism, we now encounter modernism after postmodernist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, critical race, feminist, queer and trans writing and theory.

Who was Mark Twain?

Who was Mark Twain?

First published in 1986, Too Much records the tumultuous period between 1960 and 1975 when, more than at any other time in history, the arts were a battleground for the conflicting forces of social change.

First published in 1986, Too Much records the tumultuous period between 1960 and 1975 when, more than at any other time in history, the arts were a battleground for the conflicting forces of social change.

Among Western literatures, only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Kleist, Kafka, Schmitt, and Schlink who were trained as legal scholars.

Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund Freud and William James.

The capacity of the arts and the humanities, and of literature in particular, to have a meaningful societal impact has been increasingly undervalued in recent history.

'What, in theory, is style?

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The New Woman sought vast improvements in Victorian culture that would enlarge educational, professional, and domestic opportunities.

This book celebrates experimental translation, taking a series of exploratory looks at the hypercyborg translator, the collage translator, the smuggler translator, and the heteronymous translator.

Aus Anlass ihrer Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen erscheint der erste Sammelband über das Werk der Lyrikerin, Essayistin und Übersetzerin Monika Rinck.

Filling a significant gap in contemporary criticism of recent prose fiction, this book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts.

Filling a significant gap in contemporary criticism of recent prose fiction, this book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts.

How can designers address the emergent self-organizing nature of complex urban environments?

The first major study of Cashmere and Paisley shawls in nineteenth-century British literature, this book shows how they came to represent both high fashion and the British Empire.

First published in 2004.

Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century.

Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century.

First published in 2004.

First published in 2004.

This is Volume IV of Postcolonialism part of a series of critical concepts in literary and cultural studies.

This book presents a critical reading of Kristapurana, the first South Asian retelling of the Bible.

First published in 2004.

First published in 2004.

This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records.

This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records.

William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century.

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W.

Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and ecological crisis.

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.

Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes.

This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles.

This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages.

This collection of essays explores celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields's experimentation with the essay genre in relation to her fiction.

Die hier versammelten Texte folgen keinem alternierenden Duktus, sie wechseln vielschichtig hin und her zwischen philosophischen Gedankenbewegungen und imaginativer Prosa.

Esto no es un libro sobre la tuberculosis; es un libro sobre la vida.

Poetry moves us.

Poetry moves us.

Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in English Romantic writing are produced in relation to national and transnational formations.