Mo Yan Thought

Jerry Xie

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 51
• This book analyzes Mo Yan's writings as well as other scholarly interpretations of his writings. The author stakes out a Marxist approach to theorizin... Lees meer

Approaches to Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 52
• Walter Benjamin is one of the most important figures of modern culture. The authors focus within this book on Benjamin as a philosopher, but also as a... Lees meer

The Language of Polish Modernism

Ryszard Nycz

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 49
• The author compares explicit statements on language by Polish Modernist writers such as Waclaw Berent, Boleslaw Leśmian, Stanislaw Brzozowski or Karol... Lees meer

Litanic Verse I

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 45
• A comparative history of litanic verse in various European regions. The essays on the origin of the Litany are followed by a consideration of litanic ... Lees meer

Spaces and Crossings

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 9
• This collection of essays includes a variety of approaches to different interpretations of 'space'. Some deal with aspects of (post)colonialism, mappi... Lees meer

An Introduction to Fictional Worlds Theory

Bohumil Fořt

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 43
• The book is primarily shaped as an introduction to fictional worlds theory. It critically examines all the scholarly sources regarding the theory, its... Lees meer

Cartographies of Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 35
• Nowadays the issues of space and place pertain more than ever to the ongoing discussion about personal/regional/national identities. The worlds of pri... Lees meer

«Glebae Adscripti»

Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 23
• The experience of place forms the backbone of American literary culture. The present book studies the kind of character to which this process gave ris... Lees meer

Spoiling the Cannibals' Fun?

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 20
• Spoiling the Cannibals' Fun? is not a volume about Captain Cook, unless one thinks the story of his having been eaten in the Polynesian tropics is not... Lees meer

The Body Wall

Zbigniew Bialas

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 24
• Contemporary materialism, in its varied configurations, persistently challenges claims that the body can be relegated to a subservient position when c... Lees meer

At the Threshold of Mystery

Ewa Borkowska

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 18
• The book At the Threshold of Mystery: Poetic Encounters with Other(ness) addresses the problem of literary dialogue as it appears in the philosophical... Lees meer

Aspects of Reference in Literary Theory

Alina Silvana Felea

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 50
• The book presents the various viewpoints that poetics, literary history and Western rhetoric have adopted throughout Western history. The aim of poeti... Lees meer

The Effect of Palimpsest

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 36
• This volume, entitled The Effect of Palimpsest: Culture, Literature, History , undertakes the pioneering task of employing the notion of palimpsest in... Lees meer

Body, Letter, and Voice

Maria Plochocki

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 29
• The author treats, in historical and philosophical terms, the contributions of the traditionally marginalized genre of detective fiction to epistemolo... Lees meer

Before the Trenches

Ricardo Namora

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 53
• The author describes and discusses 20th century literary theory and its appeal to scientific methodology. The book focuses on the appeal to scientific... Lees meer

Cross-Cultural Affinities

Manyaka Toko Djockoua

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 48
• The book addresses influences and affinities in the context of the history of ideas, literary theory and criticism. It brings together American Transc... Lees meer

Alchemization of the Mind

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 13
• Ever since the Renaissance urge to modernize enforced irreverent reading of ancient and classical texts, the European mind resisted complete seculariz... Lees meer

We Need to Talk About Heidegger

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 55
• This collection assembles a number of chapters engaging different strands of Heidegger's philosophy to explore issues relevant to contemporary media s... Lees meer

Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson's Fiction

Sonia Front

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 31
• The subsequent chapters of the book deal with selected questions from Jeanette Winterson's fiction, such as gender issues, love and eroticism, languag... Lees meer

Disciplining the New Pragmatism

Leszek Drong

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 26
• Disciplining the New Pragmatism is both a tribute and a corrective to the neopragmatist perspective in American literary studies. It sets out to give ... Lees meer

Melancholic Travelers

Katarzyna Nowak

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 25
• The book analyzes traveling post-colonial subjects in recent prose by women writers of South Asian origin, tracing the links between the tropes of fem... Lees meer

(Mis)Translation and (Mis)Interpretation: Polish Literature in the Context of Cross-Cultural Communication

Piotr Wilczek

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 22
• The book (Mis)translation and (Mis)interpretation: Polish Literature in the Context of Cross-Cultural Communication is devoted to various aspects of t... Lees meer

Disruptive Fluidity

Anna Chromik

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 38
• Disruptive Fluidity explores the textual tropes of liquidity in contemporary reconstructions of modern subjectivity. The key idea that frames the book... Lees meer

Beyond the Limits of Language

Agata Wilczek

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Cultural Theory | nr. 44
• The book analyses a mode of apophasis in contemporary theoretical discourse. It explores the relationship between negative theology and Jacques Derrid... Lees meer