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A fascinating guide to Franco Moretti’s literary criticism Experimental Criticism offers a series of close critical enga......more
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Stanley Cavell, undoubtedly one of the most singular and influential voices in contemporary philosophy, has written exte......more
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This book takes up a number of Charles Sanders Peirce’s undeveloped semiotic concepts and highlights their theoretical i......more
This collected volume makes an incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture, filling a gap between the re......more
Bringing together cutting-edge research on neurodiversity as an evolving theme in Disability Studies and the wider Medic......more
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Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese ......more
Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese ......more
We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transformin......more
Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thor......more
Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thor......more
The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the cu......more
A provocative case for why immortalizing Greek and Roman culture as "classical" marginalizes and devalues Black life Gre......more
For linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure is the defining figure of its modern period. For semiotics too he is the founding......more
Early Modern expansionism and its aftermaths constitute a biopolitical laboratory, measuring social and individual well-......more
This book offers a new reading of D.H. Lawrence’s critical and fictional modernism, setting it in dialogue with a recent......more
Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public disc......more
From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, ’redemptive hybridism’ - a new way of reading texts full of poss......more
In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial s......more
In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial s......more
A poetics for reading the everyday objects that populate a hard drive Bespoke online archives like PennSound and Eclipse......more
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There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between conceptions of meaning and the interpretatio......more
A must-read that reshapes how we think about the social underpinnings of our financial choices. In Irrational Together, ......more
The Visual Novel situates the work of Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin and Brigid Brophy in relation to developments in t......more
How is music affected by its translation, interpretation and adaptation with, through, and by dance? How might notation ......more
Explores and illuminates the impact of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin on our understanding of literary modernis......more
Why are we so often told that poetry is like music - or that it is music? Can music communicate meaning, as literature c......more
How we build our invisible libraries Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to......more
Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize Abdelkébir Khatibi’s The Wound of the Name (1974) is a classic work of......more
A bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s groundbreaking theories A century after Mikhail Bakhtin first began formulating hi......more
Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize Abdelkébir Khatibi’s The Wound of the Name (1974) is a classic work of......more
A bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s groundbreaking theories A century after Mikhail Bakhtin first began formulating hi......more
The book examines how so-called human inner life - feelings, emotions, sentiments and self-reflection - permeates differ......more
We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about language......more
What did modernist writers make of the things of war? Often studied for its fascination with the shell-shocked mind, mod......more
The formal innovations of the modernist novelists have continued to reverberate to the present day, less importantly as ......more
The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature is a collection of papers by influential scholars who are engag......more
On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin’s reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The w......more
On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin’s reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The w......more
Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this ......more
Post Anthropocenes: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Posthuman Ecocriticism explores three distinct yet interrelated approa......more
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Why do we conceptualize our experience primarily in terms of stories? This monograph is a groundbreaking exploration of ......more
The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans* Narrative Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the intersect......more
In Reading in the Postgenomic Age, Lesley Larkin analyzes how writers across literary genres have reckoned with the laun......more
In Reading in the Postgenomic Age, Lesley Larkin analyzes how writers across literary genres have reckoned with the laun......more
Drawing on early modern French thought to free nature and aesthetics from metaphysical humanism What good is aesthetics ......more
Michelle Zerba’s Modern Odysseys explores three major writers in global modernism from the Mediterranean, Anglo-European......more
In this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing tha......more
In this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing tha......more
Idiosyncratic essays use their "exploded" forms to examine how inquiry functions Insect galls, time, memory systems, org......more
Idiosyncratic essays use their "exploded" forms to examine how inquiry functions Insect galls, time, memory systems, org......more
This book aims to shed light on artistic works centered on mothering and reproductive experiences, ones which defy outda......more
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine th......more
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What does it mean to lead a moral life? In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provoc......more
What does it mean to lead a moral life? In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provoc......more
Logomotives are words that change worlds - past, present, and future. Bearing a wide range of linguistic, regional and d......more
The essay-periodical and the novel both emerged as new literary genres in the eighteenth century. Yet there has been no ......more
Genetic criticism is the study of authors’ drafts and manuscripts, looking at all that is tried or discarded in the cour......more
Robinson and Sun’s book goes in search of the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralis......more
This book traces literature’s long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, ’material’ eff......more
This book examines Brecht’s theory and method of adaptation. It first reconstructs it into a single framework using four......more
Location matters, for critics, readers and texts. This book explores the notion of location not simply as geographical, ......more
This volume charts the origins, development, and future potential of semioethics through the work of Susan Petrilli, sho......more
The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road tryi......more
The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road tryi......more
This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural ......more
Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell gathers new essays by international scholars who examine heretical c......more
Retrieves Hegelian speculative experience for literary theory. The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has fo......more
Retrieves Hegelian speculative experience for literary theory. The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has fo......more