Telling a story changes the way we think about an event and makes us understand it differently. The very power of storyt......more

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Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thor......more

The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the cu......more

Assessments of the history of literary criticism suffer from two errors. On one hand, they often ignore the relationship......more

Written by a practising poet and novelist who has close experience of the subject matter and has published creative work......more

How is music affected by its translation, interpretation and adaptation with, through, and by dance? How might notation ......more

Explores and illuminates the impact of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin on our understanding of literary modernis......more

Stanley Cavell, undoubtedly one of the most singular and influential voices in contemporary philosophy, has written exte......more

Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this ......more

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Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atroc......more

"Sharon Cameron is known for rigorously and brilliantly connecting artistic achievement to ways of thinking. Her signifi......more

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new......more

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new......more

This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/......more

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing......more

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing......more

Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different ......more

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent pers......more

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent pers......more

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A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde. In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European mod......more

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-century authors of all sortsâ ......more

John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time......more

John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time......more

How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry......more

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science The 120 years between Henry ......more

Thinking with Words: A Literary Groundwork provides a unique foundational introduction to the depths and glories of lite......more

A study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature The prostitute, the protester, the murder vic......more

A study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature The prostitute, the protester, the murder vic......more

Following the narratives explored in Hominescence, Incandescent and The Bough, Michel Serres continues and concludes his......more

Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis offers the first comprehensive and......more

Post Anthropocenes: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Posthuman Ecocriticism explores three distinct yet interrelated approa......more

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-century authors of all sortsâ ......more

In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive......more

In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive......more

The relationship between medievalism and reception explored via a rich variety of case studies. At the intersection of t......more

Our identities are shaped by narratives, and cinema contributes to that process. While there is substantial scholarship ......more

A strategic reconstruction of modern German thought from the standpoint of aesthetic theory, The Narrowest Path reveals ......more

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively ......more

"These days, who still has a soul?" asks Julia Kristeva in this psychoanalytic exploration. Drawing on her many years of......more

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Queer futures begin with the body. In Never on Time, Always in Time, Kate McCullough explores how writers summon queer b......more

Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May 1968 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept......more

How modernist interartistic experimentation and the proliferation of new media technologies inspired fresh insights into......more

Returns us to Gertrude Stein’s theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude S......more

Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africa’s cha......more

Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africa’s cha......more

How modernist interartistic experimentation and the proliferation of new media technologies inspired fresh insights into......more

The intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questi......more

"Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media......more

"Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media......more

An updated edition of a beloved classic, Creative Mythology tells the inner story of humanity’s entire philosophical, sp......more

What is the relationship between aesthetic presentation of thought and scientific conceptions of cognition? Torsa Ghosal......more

Examines the need to recenter the category of sex-theorizing sex itself as nonbinary-in contemporary studies of gender a......more

This edited volume discusses the topic of immersion, approaching it from the perspective of various media and stakeholde......more

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-century authors of all sortsâ ......more

A close reading of James Baldwin’s short story "Sonny’s Blues" that provides insight into his life and ideas about art. ......more

Critical posthumanism is a theory paradigm that has become hugely influential across the humanities and social sciences ......more

Exploring the relationship between theory and practice in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this volume offers a st......more

What is ’translation’? Even as the scholarly viewpoint of translation studies has expanded over recent years, the notion......more

This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to "All-in-Allness......more

This book sets out to elucidate Conrad’s unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars......more

This book explores the world of psychogeographical walking as portrayed in zines - self-made, low-budget publications ci......more

In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemp......more

In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemp......more

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Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, contex......more

We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about language......more

Can form be political? Do specific aesthetic and literary forms necessarily point us toward a progressive or reactionary......more