To develop a theory of world literature, this book demands that the theory of the novel can no longe... more

It’s a critical cliché that Cervantes’ Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction r... more

Ezra Pound is one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, a writer whose poetry is p... more

In Modernist Poetry and the Limitations of Materialist Theory, Charles Altieri skillfully dissects t... more

Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines how historical archetypes in violent narratives on the... more

This book was originally published in 1832. Dr. James Philips Kay (later Sir James Kay Shuttleworth)... more

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures A... more

Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new... more

This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theory-... more

This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and ... more

Kept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth... more

This book simultaneously examines the specific theoretical issues raised by Elizabeth Gaskell’s use ... more

The prime and "unique" contribution of this study is the meta-theoretical approach according to whic... more

Grounded in the revolutionary Marxist view that "theory . . . becomes a material force when it has s... more

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures A... more

This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As M... more

A critical examination of the fiction of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.... more

A Poetics of Modernity is a scholarly edition of theoretically significant writing on theatre by mod... more

The book highlights the categories of Chinese literary theories in the Middle Ancient period, such a... more

Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy employs Silvan Tomkins’ Affect-Script theory of hum... more

Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy employs Silvan Tomkins’ Affect-Script theory of hum... more

The cynical but kind-hearted detective is the soul of the classic hard-boiled story, that chronicle ... more

Richard Thomas Gallienne was born in Liverpool on 20th January, 1866. His first job was in an accoun... more

This book provides explanations of institutional factors that contribute to the fact that sociology ... more

The Declaration of Independence claims that individuals need liberty to pursue happiness, but provid... more

Ludwig Von Mises s 1912 contribution to the theory of monetary policy and the current prevailing con... more

In this book, first published in 1987, Professor Schleifer sets Greimas’ work in its intellectual co... more