Although love and sex are central to Lawrence, critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the way these two topi......more
An important contribution to studies in literature and religion, The Divine Face in Four Writers traces the influence of......more
Combining the latest scientific and philosophical understanding of humankind’s place in the world with interpretative me......more
Maurice Ebileeni explores the thematic and stylistic problems in the major novels of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner ......more
Telling in Henry James argues that James’s contribution to narrative and narrative theories is a lifelong exploration of......more
Although psychoanalytic criticism of Shakespeare is a prominent and prolific field of scholarship, the analytic methods ......more
First collection in English of a series of short stories by an influential but not well-known early 20th century Spanish......more
What does Afro-Europe signify? This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysi......more
If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is p......more
Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contempo......more
Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved......more
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics aims to provide teachers and students with a new perspective on the history and p......more
This book suggests that James Joyce, like Yeats and his fellow Revivalists, was attracted to the west of Ireland as a pl......more
Postcolonial Asylum is concerned with asylum as a key emerging postcolonial field. Through an engagement with asylum leg......more
Literature gives access to the "verge," to the place where the full terror of falling is felt, and yet both feet are sti......more
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This outstanding collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism, and hist......more
The Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages explores the intersection of crusader ......more
Ruth Page offers a new approach to analyzing the relationships between gender and narrative. Proposing an integrative fr......more
This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic ......more
Meaning in cinema is very complex, and the flood of theories that define it have, in certain ways, left cinematic meani......more
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Early 20th-century literary critics Joseph Collins, Hermann Hesse, and Percy Lubbock concluded that the pages of a book ......more
This book examines how the work of a revolutionary writer such as Frantz Fanon might be best appropriated for contempora......more
This book seeks to join the ongoing, interdisciplinary approach to children’s literature by means of sustained readings ......more
Pharmakon traces the emergence of an ethical discourse in ancient Greece, one centered on states of psychological ecstas......more
Beat Literature in Europe offers twelve in-depth analyses of how European authors and intellectuals on both sides of the......more
In Literature and Truth Richard Lansdown continues a discussion concerning the truth-bearing status of imaginative liter......more
Milton, Evil and Literary History addresses the ways in which we read literary history according to quite specific image......more
This book brings together three main topics - deconstruction, philosophy of language, and literary theory - that have fi......more
The term ’theory’ is nowadays most commonly defined in relation to the concept of ’scientific knowledge’. Yet the etymol......more
The cultural value of poetry is critically examined in this book, from anthologies and academia to film and the internet......more
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Multimodality’s popularity as a semiotic approach has not resulted in a common voice yet. Its conceptual anchoring as we......more
Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic ......more
Understanding Metalepsis provides a state-of-the-art overview of the narratological concept of metalepsis and develops n......more
Though the phenomenon known as "unreliable narration" or "narrative unreliability" has received a lot of attention durin......more
Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts, this volume provides concise presentations of the mai......more
Recent postclassical narratology has constructed top-down reading models that often remain blind to the frame-breaking p......more
Current Trends in Narratology offers an overview of cutting-edge approaches to theories of storytelling. The introductio......more
Der Begriff ’Kunstreligion’ ist seit seiner prominenten Formulierung in Schleiermachers Reden über die Religion (1799) e......more
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In the past years, reflections on Jewish literatures and theoretical and methodological approaches discussed in Comparat......more
Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage is a pioneering collection of commissioned critical essays on the work of the......more
With Fred D’Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory, Leo Courbot offers the first research monograph ent......more
The essays collected in this volume unfold a panorama of urban phenomena of resistance that reach from the seventeenth t......more
Contesting Environmental Imaginaries foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature t......more
Relocating Postcolonialism is a major new collection that challenges many of the assumptions and discursive maneuvers of......more
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With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the tradition......more
Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literary criticism in respon......more
Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the re......more
This book is a study of the electric sign in American literature and culture. Although this book is mainly about bulb an......more
The exploration of personal identity and theories of narrative in Narrative Identity and Personal Responsibility is extr......more
The similarities and differences between poetry and worship have intrigued writers since at least the nineteenth century......more
Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the globe, this pioneering collection of essays explores how......more
This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperat......more
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This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodo......more
This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. O......more
This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece......more
First Published in 2001. This is Volume five of the selected works of I.A. Richards from 1919 to 1938, and focuses on Me......more
This is Volume I of ten in the selected works of I.A. Richards 1919 to 1938. This set gathers the major writings of I. A......more
Stealing Things demonstrates how nineteenth-century French narratives portraying the "thief" figure reflect and critique......more
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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A major question in studies of aesthetic expression is how we can understand and explain similarities and differences am......more
While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been pa......more
The ’body’ and ’discourse’ seem diametrically opposed, but we interact with our bodies and represent ourselves and our r......more
Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women’s Writing makes new connections between feminist criticism of domestic id......more
Reconfiguring Modernism explores the relationship between modern literature and modern art. Spanning the high modernist ......more
Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods to analyse a set of copies of a text who......more
The search for the defining qualities of narrative has produced an expansive range of definitions which, largely unconne......more
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A strategic reconstruction of modern German thought from the standpoint of aesthetic theory, The Narrowest Path reveals ......more
Our identities are shaped by narratives, and cinema contributes to that process. While there is substantial scholarship ......more
This volume lays theoretical and methodological groundwork for the analysis of Mesopotamian literature. A comprehensive ......more
Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call ......more
Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient Chi......more
Posthumanism has come to synthesize philosophical, literary, and artistic responses to the pressures of technology, glob......more
Examining the cultural dynamics of translation and transfer, Cultural Transfer Reconsideredproposes new insights into bo......more
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How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe......more
Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Shows the experiences of ordinary readers in Scot......more