Literary theory

This book explores the sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's later major prose in relation to more recent theories of the sublime.

This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century.

This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century.

Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English (SASE) presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them.

This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance.

Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King's fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freud's theory of the uncanny.

This book explores the genesis of the Red Book (or Liber Novus), through the lens of Jung's lifelong confrontation with Dante and, in doing so, provides the first-ever thorough comparative analysis of the intertextual and symbolical correspondences between Liber Novus and the Commedia.

This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance.

The first collection to consider what it means for theory to be considered as a species of world literature - and vice versa.

Originally published in 1959, this book charts the journey made by the author and a Creole journalist from Sierra Leone across West Africa at a time when a political, economic and cultural revolution was taking place.

Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's "e;forms of appearance.

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649-1658 describes the function of printed drama in 1650s Britain.

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

Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative.

By addressing the Western understanding of the status and nature of animals and the relation of animals to the question of life, this book provides a discourse on animality through an interdisciplinary investigation into various areas of humanities.

This volume is dedicated to the logos of Cambyses at the beginning of Book 3 in Herodotus' Histories, one of the few sources on the Persian conquest of Egypt that has not yet been exhaustively explored in its complexity.

Presenting pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism, this book sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism.

This book studies the intersection of performance and nationalism in South Asia.

First published in 1974, Fact in Fiction states that literature does not 'reflect' or 'arise from' society but is as much a functioning part of it as any social structure, institution or set of norms.

Climate change literacy assesses the cognitive, affective, and pedagogic potentials of literature.

Wolfgang Herrndorfs verbüffende Einsichten über Sprache, Kommunikation und Medien in seinem Bestseller tschick verbergen sich in aberwitzigen Dialogen.

Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's "e;forms of appearance.

Although the phrase "e;the American Dream"e; dates from the 1930s, the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country.

First published in 1992, The Creatures Time Forgot examines the representation of disabled people - in advertising, particularly that produced by disability charities, and in the work of photographers such as Diane Arbus and Gary Winogrand.

Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative.

Pornography's impact on transnational models of media aesthetics and governance has been well documented from a Euro-American perspective.

By addressing the Western understanding of the status and nature of animals and the relation of animals to the question of life, this book provides a discourse on animality through an interdisciplinary investigation into various areas of humanities.

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

First published in 1974, Fact in Fiction states that literature does not 'reflect' or 'arise from' society but is as much a functioning part of it as any social structure, institution or set of norms.

This multi-genre collection of chapters presents the dramatic transformation of English Studies in India since the early 1990s.

First published in 1992, The Creatures Time Forgot examines the representation of disabled people - in advertising, particularly that produced by disability charities, and in the work of photographers such as Diane Arbus and Gary Winogrand.

Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history.

Climate change literacy assesses the cognitive, affective, and pedagogic potentials of literature.

Originally published in 1971, this book is a study by 9 historians of West Africa, three of whom are themselves African, of the military response to the colonial occupation of West Africa.

First published in 1978 English Verse Satire aims to provide a critical study of the major English verse satirists as well as an account of the historical development of verse satire.

Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different genres.

A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat.

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.