Literary/Critical Theory

Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood examines Charles Dickens’ weekly family magazine Household Words in order to develop a detailed picture of how the journal negotiated, asserted and simultaneously deconstructed Englishness as a unified (and sometimes unifying) mode of expression...

This book examines whether and how the boundaries of territory and membership that are enforced by states subject non-citizens to illegitimate domination. The chapters bring a variety of viewpoints to bear on the issues of migration controls, differential resident statuses, including temporary worke..

This title, first published in 1984, is a study of E. M. Forster as a liberal-humanist thinker and socio-literary critic. Advani discusses Forster’s ideas on man, society, politics, religion, art, aesthetics, fiction and literary criticism. The author examines why Forster was impelled from fiction t..

Essays in Modern Stylistics, first published in 1981, is a collection of essays in the application of modern linguistic theory to the study of literature. The essays reflect the development in stylistics away from programmic statements towards analysis of particular literary works and effects. This ..

In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of literary theory that flourished in the years immediately following the Revolution, and at the work of Roman Jakobson, one of its most distinguished exponents..

European Posthumanism documents the rich influences from Continental philosophy and theory shaping one of the most widely discussed paradigms of the 21st century: posthumanism. With a landmark essay by the editors and notably incisive essays by the team of contributors, this volume looks set to be a..

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In this engaging and inspiring guide, Jason Edwards indicates the impact that Sedgwick’s work continues to have on writers, readers, and literary and cultur..

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In this work, the author shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life. The book does not reduce fiction to a functional support for ideology, but considers that the greatest interest in fiction is as a source of pleasure...

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The essays in this book examine the importance of food as a pivotal element – both materially and conceptually – in the history of the Western avant-garde...

Foucault and Literature..