Literary theory Books

This book presents a collection of case studies of biblical retellings in various contexts. Every section starts with an introduction presenting a brief overview of the field, the issues treated, as well as the nature and directions of contemporary...

In the last decade, the so called spatial turn has produced a broad discussion of space and spatiality in the social sciences, in architecture and art, as well as in philosophy, and also in literary criticism. The book focuses on one aspect largely...

Joyce was the first Modernist to use the religious term epiphany to describe an unexpected insight, often within a trivial, mundane biographical or fictional context. But prose fiction around 1900 is full of similar concepts under various names: moment...

Artificial humans were always there, moving and sleeping amongst us. Their first traces are in the ancient myths of Prometheus and Pygmalion. In the eighteenth century they took the form of mechanical dolls, forerunners of the hi-tech Japanese robots of...

Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying "I" examines the poetics of the American poet Frank O'Hara in the context of both European and American expressionism. Placing O'Hara in relation to poets such as Rilke, Williams and Pasternak, as well as painters...

When one considers issues that are crucial to the evolution of French and Irish culture and behaviour, it is doubtful if there is anything more pertinent than globalisation and secularisation. Clearly, the experience of these concepts in both countries...

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien in den deutschsprachigen Ländern (GKS: Association for Canadian Studies in the German speaking countries) this collection offers an overview of the state-of-the-arts in various...

Diese Arbeit stellt eine komparatistische Studie zu Thomas Bernhard und Sergio Chejfec dar. Die literarische Darstellung der Begegnung mit dem Anderen steht hierbei im Zentrum der Analyse. Herausgearbeitet und beleuchtet wird der gewaltsame Charakter der...

In The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages the American critic Harold Bloom claims that Shakespeare drew on Chaucer's Pardoner when creating the villain Iago for his Othello. This book turns Bloom's observation of influences within the canon...

Este libro es una exploración literaria del sentimiento lúdico del hombre ante la vida. A través de diversos personajes de la novela moderna (Gide, Calvino, Gombrowicz, Cortázar, Kundera, entre otros) analiza, desde la literatura, una problemática...

This book brings together the research findings of contemporary feminist age studies scholars, shame theorists, and feminist gerontologists in order to unfurl the affective dynamics of gendered ageism. In her analysis of what she calls "embodied shame,"...