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In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces……続きを見る

‘Whiteness’ is an omnipresent term within research on race and racism. This book differs from existing conceptualizations by adopting a psychoanalytic line of approach and by directing its attention……続きを見る

This edited collection builds on recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material world outside human culture. Through the lens of literary analysis and theory,……続きを見る

Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore ke……続きを見る

This survey provides an overview of German meta-discourse on theories and mathematics education as a scientific discipline, from the 1970s to the 1990s. Two theory strands are offered: a semiotic vi……続きを見る

Neste Literatura brasileira em foco VIII - outras formas de escrita reúnem-se textos de professores vinculados à Especialização em Literatura Brasileira da UERJ. São eles: Ana Chiara, Ana Lúcia Mach……続きを見る

In "A Study of Fairy Tales," Laura Fry Kready conducts an extensive examination of the origins, structures, and thematic elements that define the fairy tale genre. Through a meticulous analysis of v……続きを見る

For Herman Melville, the instability of democracy held tremendous creative potential. Examining the centrality of political thought to Melville's oeuvre, Jennifer Greiman argues that Melville's dens……続きを見る

Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstein and *The Waste Land-*all are celebrated "wonders" of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However,……続きを見る

This book offers a captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day, bringing to bear on his works a whole new set of reading s……続きを見る

A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fiction Now praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian novel was not always great, or even good, in the e……続きを見る

How can thinkers grapple with the question of the human when they have been dehumanized? How can black thinkers confront and make sense of a world structured by antiblackness, a world that militates……続きを見る

Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountabilityーsuch is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefit……続きを見る

Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism serves as both introduction to Cavell for Romanticists, and to the larger question of what philosophy means for the reading of literature, as well as to the im……続きを見る

Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propos……続きを見る

In "A Study of Fairy Tales," Laura Fry Kready delves into the rich tapestry of fairy tale literature, exploring its origins, thematic elements, and cultural significance. Kready employs a critical l……続きを見る

In "Inspiration: Its Nature and Extent," Edward Hoare presents a profound exploration of the concept of inspiration, meticulously dissecting its multifaceted dimensions through a blend of philosophi……続きを見る

The first comprehensive look at how Victorian fiction and British psychoanalysis shaped each other Novel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented ……続きを見る

This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of……続きを見る

This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter mor……続きを見る

This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an “early Anthropocene” in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized a……続きを見る

This is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis - both appreciative and interpretive in its 'evaluations' - across dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeL……続きを見る

In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nine……続きを見る

What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a weapon for radical change or fundamentally conservative? Is satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretic……続きを見る

Une approche "jungienne" du processus d’individuation dans l’univers de Game of Thrones. Qu’il s’agisse des livres de la saga ou de la série, Game of Thrones (Le trône de fer, en français) s’impose ……続きを見る

First Published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initi……続きを見る

The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature presents the first comprehensive overview of these popular, experimental and diverse literary cultures. Frederick Luis Aldama traces a historical……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was one place in the world that stood solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother was. Every……続きを見る

Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey‘s first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived w……続きを見る

The late twentieth century saw an explosion of interest in semiotics, the science of the signs and processes by which we communicate. In this study, the first of its kind in English, Keir Elam shows……続きを見る