Literary theory

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.

The Art Experience: An Introduction to Philosophy and the Arts takes readers on an engaging and accessible journey that explores a series of fundamental questions about the nature of art and aesthetic value.

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This book opens out a wholly new field of enquiry within a familiar subject: it offers a detailed - yet eminently readable - historical investigation, of a kind never yet undertaken, of the impact of psychoanalysis (at a crucial moment of its history) on the thinking and writing of D.

How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?

The essays in this collection, first published in 1987, represent a collective attempt to listen with the third ear to the underhand ways the unspoken has of speaking, and to speak of these ways.

This book explores representations of sentient-flesh - flesh that holds consciousness of being - in Puerto Rican women's literature.

Creative Lives and Works: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane.

Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary.

This book explores the intersection between the recent work on queer temporality and the experiments of literary modernism.

This book offers an interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno.

The essays in this book explore the role of Grace King's fiction in the movement of American literature from local color and realism to modernism and show that her work exposes a postbellum New Orleans that is fragmented socially, politically, and linguistically.

This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations.

Some of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book.

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury's Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output.

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English.

This book offers a critical account of historical books about Britain written for children, including realist novels, non-fiction, fantasy and alternative histories.

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "e;Hottentot Venus"e; and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance.

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.

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.

Northrop Frye's long career made him Canada's most creative public intellectual.

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works.

This study examines how Milton''s polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood.

Yanagita Kunio almost singlehandedly initiated the serious study of folklore in Japan.

This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding.

This study re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere.

Slavoj Zizek is one of today's leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch.

Poetry moves us.

Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse.

The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age argues that the humanist ideal of Bildung, the cultivation of the potentialities of the self through self-reflection, travel, and varied social intercourse, has been revitalized in an age of genocidal violence.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offers an overtly political challenge to the way we think about literature and culture.

Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches that are crucially dependent upon the digital nature of the literary texts it studies and the texts and collections of texts with which they are compared.

When Homeric heroes think about the meaning of their actions, they expect this to take the form of kleos, 'fame', in a future song.

First published in 1991, this book collects a broad array of path-finding scholarship by specialists in Coleridge and Romantic literature on the subject of his prose.

This thoroughly updated fourth edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today, including: feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism; reader-response theory; New Criticism; structuralism and semiotics; deconstruction; new historicism and cultural criticism; lesbian, gay, and queer theory; African American criticism; and postcolonial criticism and ecocriticism.

Die immer komplexer werdenden Methoden, die am Werk Franz Kafkas erprobt wurden, haben den Zugang zu seinen Schriften nicht leichter gemacht.

The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century.

Originally published in 1989, Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages is an anthology of texts looking at the tradition of alliterative poetry in medieval English literature.

Editors Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega) have assembled a volume which addresses the relationship between trauma and ethics, and moves one step further to engage with vulnerability studies in their relation to literature and literary form.

In this book, Susan Mandala offers a series of in-depth investigations into how the dialogue of four modern plays 'works' with respect to the pragmatic and discoursal norms postulated for ordinary conversation.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory was a PROSE Award finalist.

This book explores representations of sentient-flesh - flesh that holds consciousness of being - in Puerto Rican women's literature.