Literary theory

Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillen proposes a structural approach to literary history.

Food is a defining feature in every culture.

''You are what you eat'' is an adage taken seriously as this book uncovers connections between the alimentary and ontological.

Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women''s poetic identities.

Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer.

In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.

Shows how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of this period.

This book examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Die Beitrage des Bandes zeigen, dass die disziplinare Begegnung zwischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft weit mehr ist als eine Tradition akademischer Institutionen.

In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world.

Originally published in 1990, Virginia Woolf and the Poetry of Fiction, provides a stylistic study of the fiction of Virginia Woolf.

Examines possible and fictional worlds, author and authority, otherness and recognition, translation, alternative critique, empire, education, imagination, comedy, history, poetry, and culture.

While the dehumanizing effects of technology, modernity, and industrialization have been widely recognized in D.

Shakespeare''s first critic: a newly discovered work of literary criticism from the 1590s, the most revolutionary decade in English literary history.

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

This book traces the genealogy of 'women's fiction' in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women.

This collection explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of 'place' into their writing.

Creating Democracy brings into dialogue for the first time two important theorists of democracy: Hannah Arendt (1906-75) and Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-975).

This book explores the relationship between tropes of literary property and signification in the writings and literary politics of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice.

In this landmark book, leading international scholars from North America, Europe and the UK offer a sustained critical attention to the concept of silence in Joyce's writing.

What comes after postmodernism in literature?

The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives.

In der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Literaturübersetzen tut sich häufig eine große Kluft auf zwischen Vertretern der Praxis und der Theorie.

Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness.

Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry.

This edited collection brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who together offer cutting-edge insights into the complex roles, functions, and effects of pronouns in literary texts.

Literature and Materialisms sheds light on the current new wave of materialisms and assesses the impact on literary theory and criticism.

In this book the authors describe their strategies for critically reading global and multicultural literature and the range of procedures they use for critical analyses.

Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics.

American girls'' literature shares a common bildungsroman: heroines choosing community over individualism, by entering a domestic role.

This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way.

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After the Lebanese Civil War, many Lebanese novelists committed themselves to building a "e;memory for the future.

The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce's Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the 'Hades' episode.

Drawing on original archival and field research, this Element offers an original and incisive account of the making of African literature.

What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature?

The essays gathered in Haiti's Literary Legacies unpack the theoretical, historical, and political resonance of the Haitian revolution across a multiplicity of European and American Romanticisms, and include discussion of Haitian, British, French, German, and U.

Though the phenomenon known as "e;unreliable narration"e; or "e;narrative unreliability"e; has received a lot of attention during the last two decades, narratological research has mainly focused on its manifestations in narrative fiction, particularly in homodiegetic or first-person narration.

First published in 1992, Writing and Censorship in Britain explores the issue of censorship, from a range of cultural and literary perspectives, from the Tudor period to the 1990s.

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture.

Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the 'art of fiction' debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction?

Originally published in 1979, this concordance consists of a Verbal Index listing the location of all words used by Conrad, a Word Frequency Table listing number occurrences for each word in his text, and a Field of Reference in which the user can locate in its context a word cited in the Verbal Index.