Jacques Lacan
Jean-Michel Rabaté offers a systematic genealogy of Lacan's theory of literature, reconstructing an original doctrine based upon Freudian insights and revitalized through close readings of authors as...
View ArticleJudges Through the Centuries (Blackwell Bible Commentaries)
This bible commentary traces the reception of Judges through the ages, not only by scholars and theologians, but also by preachers, teachers, politicians, poets, essayists and artists. A bible...
View ArticleCritical Realism and Composition Theory
This volume examines expressivist, cognitivist, and social-constructivist theories within composition theory: and critiques the epistemological focus of modern composition theory and its neglect of the...
View ArticleThe Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary...
Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement.A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism"....
View ArticleTextual Practice: Volume 6, Issue 2
Textual Practice has established itself as Britain's leading journal of radical literary theory.
View ArticleNorthrop Frye: The Theoretical Imagination
An indispensable introduction to one of the great critics of the twentieth century, whose work on ideology, aesthetics and social criticism has ensured his place at the centre of cultural studies and
View ArticleDialogics of Critique (Hardback)
As interest in the work of Bakhtin grows there is an increasing demand for a well organized, readable text which explains his main ideas and relates them to current social and cultural
View ArticleOn Literature (Thinking in Action)
Debates rage over what kind of literature we ought to read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is
View ArticleThe Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence offers a series of new perspectives on one of the most important and controversial writers of the twentieth century. These specially commissioned essays offer...
View ArticleDiscourse (The New Critical Idiom)
This volume provides a broad analysis of the term 'discourse' and a thorough examination of the many theoretical assumptions surrounding it. In the revised edition of this invaluable guidebook, Sara...
View ArticleThe Emergence of Dramatic Criticism in England: From Jonson to Pope
How and why did the discipline of criticism emerge in England in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century? Modern surveys typically trace the development of English criticism as a tidy succession of
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