Literary theory

The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century.

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Representations of violence surround us in everyday life - in news reports, films and novels - inviting interpretation and raising questions about the ethics of viewing or reading about harm done to others.

This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture.

This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry.

Who are the most important Canadian crime and detective writers?

Seeing Shakespeare's Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally.

The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature.

The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D.

First published in 1988, Peculiar Language is now established as one of the most important discussions of the language of literature.

This volume offers extensive information on preventive and infection surveillance procedures, routines and policies adapted to the optimal infection control level needed to tackle today's microbes in hospital practice.

What comes after postmodernism in literature?

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While globalization is often associated with economic and social progress, it has also brought new forms of terrorism, permanent states of emergency, demographic displacement, climate change, and other "e;natural"e; disasters.

This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare''s life and times.

This book explores some of the ways in which contemporary literary theory can be used to read fiction.

The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the twentieth century, in an accessible resource for students and teachers alike.

In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries.

This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history.

This is a book about contemporary literary and artistic entanglements: word and image, media and materiality, inscription and illustration.

Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx rests on the principles that storytelling is central to medical encounters between caregivers and patients and that narrative competence enhances medical competence.

Even though we instruct our children not to lie, the truth is that lying is a fundamental part of children's development-socially, cognitively, emotionally, morally.

This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy.

In diesem Buch beschreibt Helmut Grugger, wie poetische Texte hochgradig reflektierte Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Komplex des Psychotraumas erzeugen, und zeigt so, dass gerade Literatur hoher Qualität für die unterschiedlichen Diskurse zum Thema Trauma von höchstem Interesse ist.

'To say this series is "e;empowering"e; doesn't do it justice.

Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D.

Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes key issues in the intersection of digital humanities and history.

Populäres Studien- und Prüfungsfach: Gender Studies.

The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies.

Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "e;the Arab.

Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today.

In Blindness and Insight, de Man examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism.

Everybody knows, and maybe even loves, a microgenre.

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to reconfigure subject-object relations and point towards new possibilities in creative and critical thought.

Originally published in 1990.

An overview of the history of the novel with practical tips and examples for studying fiction.

This book undertakes to show how the exercise of reading Tolstoy's "e;The Death of Ivan Ilyich"e; involves articulating for ourselves, as readers, what it means to liberate life through death.

The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring recent shifts in the continuum of these memorial poems.

Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by bringing to the fore innovative women playwrights from the French Caribbean: Ina Cesaire, Maryse Conde, Gerty Dambury, Suzanne Dracius.

Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society.

This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and dimensions of the world.