...more

...more

...more

...more

Artificial Fiction: Imagining Literary Possibility Beyond the Human dreams boldly about literary possibility in this mom......more

Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and schola......more

...more

...more

Develops a new ethical framework for understanding nonviolence through Dostoevsky’s "Legend of the Grand Inquisitor," br......more

In this daring study, Amy De’Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by ca......more

In this daring study, Amy De’Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by ca......more

...more

...more

This introduction to psychoanalytic theory explores the birth of psychoanalysis and gives an account of fundamental psyc......more

By employing a cognitive semiotic theory based on pragmatism and enactivism, this book explores the nature and emergence......more

In How to Weather Together, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton develop an innovative model for climate change mi......more

In How to Weather Together, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton develop an innovative model for climate change mi......more

The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe ......more

Reading Modernism’s Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller examines the scene of reading in modernis......more

A fascinating guide to Franco Moretti’s literary criticism Experimental Criticism offers a series of close critical enga......more

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on on......more

The Novel Experience introduces new approaches to the study of narrative fiction, for scholars, critics, teachers, and r......more

This edited collection of essays analyses the contributions that presentist theory and criticism have made to the field ......more

...more

...more

The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and c......more

Humanities Theory pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humani......more

African Climate Futures shows how climate-changed futures are imagined in Africa and by Africans, and how these future v......more

Holocaust and Hope shows one of our preeminent critics grappling with a subject to which he had returned for decades: li......more

The multi-century event of enslavement and colonialism changed the cultural and political imagination of the Atlantic wo......more

The multi-century event of enslavement and colonialism changed the cultural and political imagination of the Atlantic wo......more

...more

...more

This study takes up the relations among computerization, labor, and the arts in South Africa. There are many books about......more

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted......more

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted......more

The point of departure for this volume is the work of the Austrian Brazilian critic Roberto Schwarz on literature and cu......more

...more

...more

...more

...more

Natural human communication is multimodal. We pair speech with gestures, and combine writing with pictures from online m......more

This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the transm......more

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective life......more

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective life......more

It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial world, r......more

Modernity of the digital age is beset by accusations that we are more distracted than ever, and that attention spans hav......more

Metaphors We Read By proposes a metaphorical approach to reading that offers new ways of understanding literary experien......more

The Jewish Vanguard brings to light a spirited cultural moment when Jewish writers and artists were at the forefront of ......more

The concept "we" is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been over......more

The concept "we" is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been over......more

Close reading is an essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies......more

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique......more

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique......more

Why does the myth of the Fall continue to matter in an increasingly secularised world? Why do we continue to imagine a p......more

This book explores how fan practices, such as fan art and fan fiction, and linguistic landscapes - the language surround......more

This book explores how fan practices, such as fan art and fan fiction, and linguistic landscapes - the language surround......more

...more

Facts and established truths are regularly denied in contemporary life. This situation has brought paranoid politics int......more

Facts and established truths are regularly denied in contemporary life. This situation has brought paranoid politics int......more

This book contains essays by Horst Ruthrof, tracing the author’s intellectual history from his encounter with literature......more

This book inserts Lacanian theory into contemporary debates within the emerging interdisciplinary field of ’Mad Studies’......more

Is literature of political use, and if yes, how might this use be defined? "Reading for Democracy" addresses this questi......more

This book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist e......more

This book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist e......more

Beyond language and pragmatics, an argument for communication as a philosophical force in its own right. Philosophy has ......more

As a multifaceted and intermedial phenomenon, poetry in the digital age not only demands a rethinking and expansion of t......more

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the multilingual linguistic landscape in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, focusing ......more

...more

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

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

...more

This book presents two major critical reorientations, developing new positions on James Joyce and Jacques Derrida by rea......more

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, existence is perpetual transformation. Humans and gods become plants and animals, stones and st......more

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, existence is perpetual transformation. Humans and gods become plants and animals, stones and st......more