Literary/Critical Theory

This book defines a posthuman approach as one that has a starting point in complexity thinking, promotes a non-Newtonian approach to the study of the social world, and advocates a non-anthropocentric perspective, considering various interpretations of the term 'emancipation.’..

In this book, first published in 1989, twenty-give eminent critics and theorists write about different aspects of literary theory. These essays represent leading research in psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, Continental theory, feminism, Afro-American studies, philosophy, cybernetics, aesth..

Whilst the term ‘trauma’ is currently dominating literary and theoretical discourse, this book is designed to explore the future of trauma theory.  With contributions from an international selection of leading critics and thinkers from the US and Europe, including Judith Butler, Cathy Caruth and Dom..

The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature explores and analyses political conflicts between individuals and authority figures, as those conflicts are depicted in thirteen Egyptian novels written from 1957 to the last years of Mubarak's presidency...

In The Language of Literature, first published in 1971, Roger Fowler argues that the vitality and centrality of the verbal dimension of literature, and, read as a whole, the papers in this collection imply a consistent point of view on language in literature. The author focuses on the continuity of ..

In this study scholars investigate the meaning of 'life' in British Romantic poetry and poetics -- analyzing the work of Blake, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, and others -- to open up new terrain in Romantic poetry’s relation to literary theory, the history of philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics...

In this study scholars investigate the meaning of 'life' in British Romantic poetry and poetics -- analyzing the work of Blake, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, and others -- to open up new terrain in Romantic poetry’s relation to literary theory, the history of philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics...

In this study scholars investigate the meaning of 'life' in British Romantic poetry and poetics -- analyzing the work of Blake, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, and others -- to open up new terrain in Romantic poetry’s relation to literary theory, the history of philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics...

First published in 1980, this book surveys Dickens’ growing power to drive deep into the causes of his contemporary conditions. It reveals the importance of nature to Dickens as a rich metaphor of human freedom and potentiality, and emphasises his concern with time and the problems of freedom. The a..

The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual at large, and studies the singular relationship established between language and image, observesing the modalities and workings of what is termed ‘intermedial transpo..

This volume undertakes a project termed ‘a politics of form’, which politicizes formal analysis of narrative texts in various media while retaining the form specificity that is a distinctive feature of narratology. It was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Stu..

Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis...