This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which ’alternativ......more

This book argues that political concerns, inseparable from Dante’s biography, permeate his entire corpus, emerging at th......more

"Explores the vehicles and robotic extensions of ourselves that we cast out into the solar system to photograph, probe, ......more

Demonstrating the range of linguistic and semiotic practices which are deployed in the construction of war memory, The B......more

This edited collection builds on recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material ......more

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis of feeli......more

In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues t......more

This book explores the nature-inspired and place-based vlogging activities of five young women who have become global ic......more

Tapping a rich vein of Latin American literature, Deformative Fictions by Ashley Hope Pérez excavates works that unsettl......more

This book is the first monograph to critically evaluate the work of the literary scholar René Girard from the perspectiv......more

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When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas ......more

When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas ......more

Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the c......more

This book gives a general overview of Artificial Intelligence as it is impacting on the world of the arts and culture. W......more

This edited book seeks to bridge a gap in the existing literature on nouns, by exploring the exact relationship between ......more

Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a dai......more

Placing Disability presents an international collection of personal essays that address the experience of disability in ......more

As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints......more

Kleine Formen sind jüngst in das Blickfeld literatur-, medien- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen geraten. Dabe......more

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It build......more

Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature Nathan Gorelick’s The Unwritten Enlig......more

"You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on." These are some of the most quoted lines written by Samuel Beckett, which sp......more

Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rites Of Disimagination brings together scholar......more

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Defective Institutions overturns the basis of institutionalism. Faith in classic institutions--exposed as clamorously in......more

Shame is one of the most frequent underlying emotions expressed throughout sub-Saharan African literature, yet studies o......more

A critical look at the aesthetic encounter with semi-detachment through literature and art When you are half lost in a w......more

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the widespread issue of fake news and misinformation. Using real-life ex......more

Curated Fiction presents a new theory and methodology for developing, drafting and refining creative writing. At the int......more

You’re trying to finish a screenplay, but there’s a voice in your ear whispering, "You should know more about how cinema......more

Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contribu......more

This book is concerned with the notion of the stranger--the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not t......more

In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the sy......more

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the fiction of Constance Antonina (Nina) Boyle: a suffragette desc......more

An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone......more

This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of......more

Founded 2,600 years ago on a massive limestone eminence, the city of Arles has been the home of Roman emperors and captu......more

Formal Matters re-examines the postmodernist insistence that the body escapes signification by turning to an unexpected ......more

"Explores the surprising social, cultural, historical, and environmental significance of air conditioning and of our eff......more

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of......more

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Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages of w......more

Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages of w......more

Beyond Words argues that some works of fiction and poetry are especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding our awa......more

In this book, Mick Howard uses a Saussurean framework to explore how bodies and technologies intermingle through a theor......more

Collections on sound studies have seldom explored the vexed relationship between literature - a medium largely defined b......more

Desire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristeva’s essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending ov......more

Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoa......more

Environment and Narrative in Vietnam brings together essays about Vietnam’s natural environments and environmental crise......more

Addressing the influential analysis of law and literature, this book offers a new perspective on their relationship. The......more

This edited volume explores emotion and its translations through the global world from a variety of different points of ......more

Literature and Theory is designed to assist students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. Focusing on repre......more

The New Woman sought vast improvements in Victorian culture that would enlarge educational, professional, and domestic o......more

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. These days th......more

Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersecti......more

This book takes up a number of Charles Sanders Peirce’s undeveloped semiotic concepts and highlights their theoretical i......more

"In this book, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. Most histories of the early ye......more

The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupli......more

Contributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu......more

The experiences of health and illness, death and dying, the normal and the pathological have always been an integral par......more

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the......more

In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and m......more

The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White’s unc......more

The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White’s unc......more

In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spani......more

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

This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodi......more

This book looks at Neobaroque Latin American fiction, poetry, essay and performance from the 1970s to the early 2000s in......more

This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics. The various forms, movements, and p......more

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the art of dance and explores what ......more

This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities ques......more

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwi......more

All knowledge is always a matter of change, as this book underlines. All knowledge links You and Me to Reality. This pro......more