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In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, d...

With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms provides in one convenient, accessible volume all...

"Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " —Mus...

" . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." --Journal of Aesthetics and Art C...

Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher...

The first volume to expound African American literary theory from the 1920s to presentAfrican American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first vol...

When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literar...

Today, algorithms exercise outsize influence on cultural decision-making, shaping and even reshaping the concept of culture. How were automated, ...

Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us f...

Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identi...

The cited study uses two fantasy baseball teams to explain human potential for postmortem evolution and genetic immortality, while examining the ...

Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. These reverberations,...

Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial ...

While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identi...

Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of reli...

Providing intriguing insights for students, film buffs, and readers of various genres of fiction, this fascinating book delves into the psycholog...

Comics and Cognition develops an analytical approach to multimodal communication in comics through insights from embodied cognitive science, especi...

This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about wh...

Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticis...

A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice--close reading. Does literary criticism offer tr...

In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on b...