Literary theory Books

Book SynopsisJamin Pelkey is Associate Professor and Program Director in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.Paul Cobley is Full Professor and Deputy Dean (Research & Knowledge Exchange) in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, Middlesex University, London, UK.Trade ReviewPeircean Semiotics offers some of the most interesting and insightful perspectives on the nature of communication as a crucial force in the universe, ranging from human language to physics. In Bloomsbury Semiotics vol. 4, Jamin Pelkey and Paul Cobley have brought together some of the leading semioticians from around the world on an exciting range of topics. This is an important volume that all readers, whether new to semiotics or long-term semioticians, will enjoy and learn a great deal from. I highly recommend it. -- Daniel L. Everett, Bentley University, USABloomsbury Semiotics is a much-needed reference that promises to provide a very solid general and historical introduction to a complex way of thinking, but also introduces a very wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to the field. -- Elliot Gaines, Wright State University, USATable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction, Paul Cobley 1. Communication Theory and Semiotics, Richard Lanigan 2. Media/Culture Studies and Semiotics, Sophia Melanson Ricciardone and Marcel Danesi 3. Digital Humanities and Semiotics, Alin Olteanu and Arianna Ciula 4. Systems Theory and Semiotics, Ricardo Gudwin and João Queiroz 5. Phenomenology and Semiotics, Peer F. Bundgaard 6. Hermeneutics and Semiotics, Ronald C. Arnett and Susan Mancino 7. Translation Studies and Semiotics, Evangelos Kourdis and Ritva Hartama-Heinonen 8. Pragmatics and Semiotics, Per Aage Brandt 9. Gesture Studies and Semiotics, Irene Mittelberg and Jennifer Hinnell 10. Multimodality and Semiotics, David Machin and Ariel Chen 11. Discourse Analysis and Semiotics, Kay O'Halloran and Sabine Tan 12. Integrational Linguistics and Semiotics, Adrian Pablé 13. Cognitive Linguistics and Semiotics, Jordan Zlatev and Möttönen Tapani 14. Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Göran Sonesson Index

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Book SynopsisConsistently praised for its readability and scholarship, Studying the Novel is the ideal undergraduate companion to the study of the novel and shorter fiction. Revised throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the writing, reading, and analysis of fiction, the eighth edition includes a new chapter on popular fiction that covers children's fiction, horror and the gothic, science fiction, the detective story, the comic novel, and the graphic novel. The chapter on World Literature has been expanded to include sections on fiction and apartheid, and the fiction of disability, and information on electronic resources has been thoroughly updated.Providing a complete guide to the study of prose fiction in one reader-friendly volume, the book covers: - The history and diversity of the novel, from early ancestors to new electronic forms- The novel, the novella, and the short story- Realism, modernism, and postmodernism- AnaTrade ReviewThis new edition of Studying the Novel is markedly the product of a life time of teaching and sustained reflection on the novel. It takes the reader from the basics of character, action, plot through to recent developments in critical approaches to the novel – narratological, textual, contextual, ideological; and from the ancestors of the novel through to world literature via computer games, interactive fiction and hypertext fiction. For this new edition, Hawthorn has added a new chapter on popular fiction (including children’s fiction and the graphic novel) and new sections on the novel and disability and the novel and apartheid. Studying the Novel is written with Hawthorn’s usual clarity and intelligence: it manages to provide helpful guidance for those just starting into the serious study of the novel (including ‘How to take Notes’ and ‘Using Critics’), while remaining constantly thought-provoking for the more experienced student of fiction. It is appropriately aware of its own imagined reader, and richly furnished with a range of illustrative fictional examples. It is essential reading for anybody setting out to think critically about the novel, and the ‘topics for discussion’ after each chapter make this a very useful teaching tool. * Robert Hampson, University of London, UK *An outstanding overview of key issues in prose fiction, Studying the Novel covers a wide range of technical information with an approachable blend of clarity, sophistication, and concision. Examples from across centuries and cultures include important canonical works along with an expanded presentation of voices and concepts in World Literature and popular genres. Hawthorn’s efficient survey of historical, formal, and critical approaches is especially useful for teaching, and the material on versions, adaptations, and translations, as well as the challenges and opportunities of digital media, provide students with a lexicon to articulate the impact of shifting generic grounds. This is a teaching resource I’ll be turning to time and again. * Jana M. Giles, University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA *Table of ContentsContents Introduction to the eighth edition Chapter 1 Fiction and the novel The universality and the distinctiveness of fiction Fiction, play, fantasy Imaginary characters and real life Prose Narrative Characters, action, plot Novel, short story, novella Chapter 2 History, genre, culture When was the novel born? Ancestors and close relations Novel and romance Life and pattern The ‘rise of the novel’ Chapter 3 Shorter fiction The short story The novella Chapter 4 Realism, modernism, postmodernism – and beyond Realism Modernism Postmodernism The electronic revolution Chapter 5 Popular fiction Genre, the canon, and the popular Fiction for children The fiction of horror: ghosts and the gothic Science fiction The detective story The spy thriller The comic novel The graphic novel Chapter 6 Analysing fiction Prose fiction and formal analysis Narrative technique Character Plot Structure Setting Theme Symbol and image Speech and dialogue Chapter 7 Studying the novel Studying the novel in the digital age Reading, responding, criticizing How to take notes Using critics Using computers Revision / review Essays and examinations Chapter 8 Critical approaches to fiction Categorizing criticism Narratology: structuralist and rhetorical The literary critical tradition Textual approaches Contextual approaches Ideological approaches Chapter 9 Versions, adaptations, translations Versions Adaptations Translations Chapter 10 World literature and fiction World literature For whom does the novel speak today? Fiction, truth, and (recent) history The fiction of disability Timeline of the novel Glossary of terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different genres. It argues that scholarship on literature and the body is of fundamental importance to discussions about gender, race, sexuality, class, age, narrative form, and processes of reading and writing. Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction understands literature' in a broad sense: as fundamentally connected to changes in technology, culture and the environment. Offering a lively and accessible synthesis, it explores how literary writing of present and recent decades is concerned with the challenges of conveying physical experiences, experimenting with sensory perception, and thinking through the relationship between embodiment, identity and knowledge.Trade ReviewAs with all of Hall’s writing, there is a delightful activism running throughout this important book. She raises the bar on critical discussion, bringing a new alertness to the relevance of the body in literature. Tellingly, she does not overlook how literary texts themselves are kinds of bodies not to be left out in the rush to theory and critical debate * Paul Crawford, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK *This book provides an expansive overview of the many and complex ways the body has featured in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors engage large and important themes: gender, sexuality, disability, race, affect, ageing, the environment, and issues around the ‘digital’ body. This is important reading for students of literature, cultural history, body studies, and the medical humanities * Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter, UK *A timely introduction to key aspects of how literature deals with bodies. Each chapter is focused and backs its presentation of state-of-the-art theory with readings of literary works. Together they add up to an excellent background for understanding the centrality of the body, whether it is seen through the lens of gender, affect, race, disability, aging, or the posthuman * Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark *Each essay in this comprehensive anthology critically articulates a partial account of embodied experience that co-constitute literature and the body. ... [T]he collection illuminates the ‘power of the margins’ ... and shows how different forms of situated embodied experiences can affect and be affected by different forms of discourses and texts. * The British Society for Literature and Science *Table of Contents1.Introduction THEMES 2.Gender and Feminism 3.Race and Postcolonial Perspectives 4.Disability 5.Illness and Health 6.Ageing CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES 7.Affect 8.Human Rights 9.Ecocriticism and Animal Studies 10.Digital Humanities and the Posthuman Further reading

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Book SynopsisCharlotte Crofts is Associate Professor of Filmmaking at the University of the West of England, UK. She is editor-in-chief of Screenworks (2006-present). She has published a monograph on Angela Carter, Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television (MUP, 2003), a chapter Curiously Downbeat Hybrid or Radical Retelling?: Neil Jordan's and Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves'' in Sisterhoods: Across the Literature/Media Divide (Pluto Press, 1999) and written about her Japanese writings in 'The Other of the Other': Angela Carter's 'New-Fangled' Orientalism' in Re-Visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts, ed. Rebecca Munford (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She is currently developing a feature-film adaptation of Angela Carter's Japanese writings. She co-founded the Angela Carter Society with Caleb Sivyer, and Marie Mulvey-Roberts with whom she is developing a Smart phone app on Carter.Marie Mulvey-RobeTrade ReviewThe essays are uniformly serious, well researched, clearly written, and impressively innovative. Including 15 illustrations, this book is for those interested in feminism, fairy tales, and, of course, literary theory and women writers. * CHOICE *Discussing a wide range of Carter’s fiction, this book explores how cross-cultural semiotics, musicality, visual critique, and sensory materiality animate Carter’s pyrotechnic prose. Along with new perspectives on familiar topics, it features exciting studies of folksong, opera, food, and fashion as they inform the poetics of specific Carterian works. * Cristina Bacchilega, Professor Emerita of English, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa, USA *Table of ContentsForeword Gina Wisker (University of Brighton, UK) Pyrotechnics: Angela Carter’s Incendiary Imagination Charlotte Crofts (UWE Bristol, UK) & and Marie Mulvey-Roberts (UWE Bristol, UK) SIGNS & OBJECTS 1. Carter and the Japanese Signs: Bunraku, Mishima, Irezumi and Sozo Araki Natsumi Ikoma (International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan) 2. Some Kinds of Love: Angela Carter, Art and Objects David Punter (University of Bristol, UK) 3. The Chance Encounter of a Stuffed Dodo, a Fallen Star, and a Fruit Woman Automaton… The Secret Life of Things Queering the Museal Gaze in Angela Carter’s Curiosity Cabinets Anna Kérchy (University of Szeged, Hungary) MUSIC, PERFORMANCE & FAIRYTALE 4. ‘Down to the Greenwood’: Angela Carter and Traditional Folksong Hippolyta C. M. Paulusma (University of Cambridge, UK) 5. From Grizelda’s Patience to Feminist Grit: Angela Carter’s ‘The Patience of Grizelda’ as a Hidden Intertext to ‘The Bloody Chamber’ Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) 6. Of Tales, Tragic Opera, Transformation and ‘Tongues’: Tristan und Isolde in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber Ashley Riggs (University of Geneva, Switzerland) 7. Theatre, Adaptation, Angela Carter: A Case Study Belinda Locke (PhD Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia 2018; Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria Australia) WAYS OF SEEING 8. ‘What Then?’ Apocalypticism and Angela Carter’s Surrealist Aesthetics Scott A Dimovitz (Regis University, Denver, USA) 9. Kaleidoscopes, Stereoscopes and Phantasmagoria: Critical and Creative Ways of Seeing in the Work of Angela Carter Caleb Sivyer (UWE Bristol, UK) 10. ‘The Strangeness of the World Made Visible’: Reading Alignments between Angela Carter and Paula Rego Beatrice Bijon (Australian National University, Canberra Australia) MATERIAL BODIES 11. Perceiving Pleasures and Appetites in The Bloody Chamber: ‘Surprise me for dessert with every ice-cream in the ice box’ Maria José Pires (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Portugal) 12. The Skin that Holds You In: States of Dress and Undress in Angela Carter’s Animal/Human Transformation Stories Carys Crossen (University of Manchester, UK) 13. Angela Carter’s Questioning of ‘Age-appropriate’ Appearance and Behaviour in Wise Children Zoe Brennan (UWE Bristol, UK)

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Book SynopsisRosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her publications include Patterns of Dissonance (1991), Metamorphoses (2002), Transpositions (2006), Nomadic Subjects (1994 and 2011), Nomadic Theory (2011), The Posthuman (2013), and Posthuman Knowledge (2019). She co-edited with Paul Gilroy Conflicting Humanities (2016) and with Maria Hlavajova The Posthuman Glossary (2018).Emily Jones is Lecturer in Law at the University of Essex, UK. She is author (with G. Heathcote; S.Labenski and S.Bertotti) of The Law of War and Peace Volume 1 (2020) and Volume 2 (forthcoming 2023, Bloomsbury).Goda Klumbyte is a Research Associate at the University of Kassel, Germany. Her research engages feminist science and technology studies and critical computing.Trade ReviewMore Posthuman Glossary provides a significant set of framework concepts and topics that navigate through the abundance of innovative methodological tools generated by posthumanist practices, and enables ways to think with the complex conditions of the world. * Felicity Colman, Professor of Media Arts, University of the Arts, London, UK *How are we to navigate the world today? The editors of More Posthuman Glossary adopt the Stengerian strategy of forming relays. The question is no longer whether to render explicit or clarify what would remain implicit. It is about “consolidating just a little more”, always a little more with every new entry in the glossary. Encore! * Andrej Radman, Assistant Professor of Architecture Philosophy and Theory, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands *Table of ContentsContributors Preface, Donna Haraway Introduction, Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones and Goda Klumbyte Glossary Acting as country, Daryle Rigney Agrarian (Post-)Humanities, Sophie von Redecker Algoritmic governmentality, Antoinette Rouvroy and Goda Klumbyte Art and Bioethics, Sarah Boers Collaborative Politics, Simone Bignall Collapse, Christopher F. Julien Composting, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton Convergences, Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones and Goda Klumbyte Cosmic Artisan, Kay Sidebottom Crip Theory, Kelly Fritsch Critical Posthuman Theory, Rosi Braidotti and Emily Jones (De)constructing Risk, Helene Kazan Defamiliarisation, Helen Palmer Dissappearance, Rick Dolphijn and Trixie Tsang The Distributed University, Sarah Nuttall and Rosi Braidotti EcoLaw, Margaret Davies Emergent Ecologies, Eben Kirksey Empathy Beyond the Human, Danielle Sands Endomaterialities, Celia Roberts Existential Posthumanism: A Manifesto, Francesca Ferrando Ex-colonialism, Simone Bignall Feminism and oceans, Gina Heathcote Fermentation, Olga Goriunova Geoengineering, Holly Jean Buck Geontopower, Elizabeth Povinelli Humus Economicus, Janna Holmstedt Hydrofeminism, Astrida Neimanis Internet of Trees, Jennifer Gabrys Intragenerational Justice and Care, Christina Fredengren Linguistic Incompossibility, Ruth Clemens Low Trophic Theory, Cecilia Åsberg and Marietta Radomska Manus Island and Manus Prison Theory, Omid Tofighian with Behrouz Boochani The Meltionary,Melt (Loren Britton and Isabel Paehr) Nauru Imprisoned Exiles Collective, Elahe Zivardar, also known as Ellie Shakiba (with Mehran Ghadiri) New Materialist Informatics, Goda Klumbyte and Claude Draude Norms, Fleur Johns Ontologised Plasticity, Zakkiyah Iman Jackson Organoids: arts, ethics, technology, Sarah Boers Parasitology, Rick Dolphijn Pattern Discrimination, Clemens Apprich Petroculture, Josephine Taylor Postcolonial and decolonial computing, Paula Chakravartty and Mara Mills Postcolonial Drone Scholarship, Sabiha Allouche Posthuman Agency, Simone Bignall Posthuman Care, Rosi Braidotti and Goda Klumbyte Posthuman Data, Jannice Käll Posthuman Feminist Aesthetics, Nina Lykke Posthuman International Law and Outer Space, Emily Jones and Rosi Braidotti Post-humanitarian law, Matilda Arvidsson Posthuman Nursing, Jamie B. Smith Posthuman Publics, Fiona Hillary Posthumanism and Design, Laura Forlano Proxy Reasoning, Olga Goriunova Queer Death Studies, Marietta Radomska and Nina Lykke Racialising Assemblages, Ezekiel Dixon-Román Relational Sovereignty, Simone Bignall Rights of Nature, Emily Jones Side-channel Attack, Matthew Fuller Surface Orientations, Nishat Awan Surrogacy, Sophie Lewis Swarm warfare, Lauren Wilcox Syndemic, Joni Adamson and Steven Hartman Toxic Embodiment, Cecilia Åsberg Transcorporiality II: Covid-19 and Climate Change, Stacy Alaimo Transjectivity, Christine Daigle Undead, Julieta Aranda and Eben Kirksey Vibrant Death, Nina Lykke Viral, Filipa Ramos Weird, Gry Ulstein Cumulative Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExploring the rise of open scholarship in the digital era and its transformational impact on how knowledge is created, shared, and accessed, this open access book offers new insights on the history, development, and future directions of openness in the humanities and identifies key drivers, opportunities, and challenges. The concept of open research is reconfiguring scholarly communication across all disciplines, changing how understandings are produced through more accessible, participatory, ethical, and transparent approaches, reaching and involving far broader and more diverse publics. Considering multiple stakeholder perspectives, Arthur and Hearn argue that for the humanities to proactively contribute to open knowledge at the global scale, new ways of thinking are needed within every part of the system. In the open information economy, the humanities are on a trajectory following the sciences, but parts of the world are almost completely left out. A cultural shifTrade ReviewThis book offers a clarion call to academia for the necessity of participating in "the global drive toward an interconnected digital future". Open Scholarship in the Humanities is required reading for digital humanists, chairs of humanities departments, librarians, directors of digital humanities centers, and deans of liberal arts colleges. -- Laura C. Mandell, Professor of English Literature and Founding Director of the Center of Digital Humanities, Texas A&M University, USAPaul Longley Arthur and Lydia Hearn's Open Scholarship in the Humanities gives a concise and up-to-date history and context for open, digital practices in the humanities. A must-read for anyone new to the debate, with plenty also for old hands, Open Scholarship in the Humanities is a crucial and accessible volume for our digital, open times. -- Martin Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London, UKA compendium, state-of-the art survey and synthesis – an essential entry point, providing the broadest, strongest close-reading and analysis of current open scholarship trends in the Humanities to date. * Ray Siemens, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Victoria, Canada *Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements About the Authors Introduction: Unlocking Scholarship Chapter 1: Scholarly Communication from Past to Present Chapter 2: Global Policies Promoting Openness Chapter 3: Barriers in Implementing Open Scholarship Chapter 4: Toward the Open Humanities Chapter 5: Reshaping how Universities Assess Research Impact Conclusion: Pathways to Action Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself.During the past twenty years, much admirable work in the health humanities has focused upon what studies of literature contribute to the understandings and the practical workthe worldly workof healthcare. Such a project aims at developing healthcare practitioners who bring greater care to those who come to them ailing or in fear or faced with terrible suffering. Literary Studies and Well-Being turns this inside out by examining the intergenerational caretaking of healthcare in a manner which allows us to comprehend the nature and discipline of literary studies in new ways. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded Trade ReviewThis book is a beautiful discussion of what it means to have lived experiences, how humans use these events to understand the narrative that is their life, and how literature can influence the definition of wellness in our modern society. I would encourage anyone interested in living well or helping others to do so to pick up this book and take the chance to expand their knowledge, deepen their experience, and start a conversation about well-being. * World Literature Today *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Thesis and Contexts Chapter 2: Introduction: On the Discipline of Literary Studies Chapter 3: Disciplined Knowledge and the Experience of Meaning Chapter 4: The Nature of Value and the Nature of Language Chapter 5: The Discipline of Death Chapter 6: Action and Ethics in Literary Studies Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic-specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second is an imperative to historicize its practices - including polemics, controversies, and ideological ruptures - as an ongoing negotiation undertaken by Asian American critics for a more self-conscious and more adequate representation of the field's interests. These rationales are fully contextualized in the book's Introduction and Conclusion. The main body of this study is organized non-chronologically into 8 chapters, with each designed to reflect how the field has been energized by its demographic transformation, its growing intellectual heterogeneity, its defining moments, and itTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! Moment: A Historicist View of the Field Chapter One Race, Gender, and Class: Overlapping Formations --Centering Gender --Exploration of Sexuality --Essentialism and Difference --Race and Class Revisited Chapter Two The Necessity and Fiction of “Asian America” --Cultural Nationalism --Beyond Pan-Asian Ethnicity --Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies --Rethinking Asian American Specificity Chapter Three Intercultural and Generational Concerns --Writing Immigrants --Cultural Translation --Model Minority and the Paradox of Assimilation --Breaking the Tradition Chapter Four The Transnational Turn --Planetary Presence --The Asia-Pacific Investment --Cautions and Dissonances --Locating the Historical Referent Chapter Five The Social Function of Literature --Cognitive Uses of Language --Community-Based Self-Representation --Controversies --Debating Resistance Chapter Six Aesthetic Form --Form after New Criticism --Legacies and Practices --Reinventing Realist Genres --Poetic and Theatrical Studies Chapter Seven Protocols and the Politics of Institutionalization --Reading Formations --Periodization --Methodological Challenge --Post-identity Subjects Chapter Eight Emerging Interests --Food Studies --Militarization, Critical Refugee Studies, and Ecocriticism --Speculative Literature --Digital Humanities and New Media Conclusion Anti-essentialist Critique and the Asian American Literary Profession Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAstrida Neimanis is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities at the University of British Columbia, Canada on unceded syilx territory.Jennifer Mae Hamilton lives and works on unceded Anaiwan Country as Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of New England, Australia.

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Book SynopsisReading a century of American poetry through the prism of short form, this book analyses the centrality of an aesthetic of brevity to American modernist verse.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture's emergent 'cinematicity' as a key creative driver of Joyce's experimental fiction, showing how Joyce's style and themes share the cinematograph's roots in Victorian optical entertainment and science.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukacs through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing an international team of specialists on the subject, The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century.

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Book SynopsisIntroduces a new concept of 'kinopoetics' to transform how we read migrancy and literary form

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Book SynopsisHenri Bergson was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. However, literary writers do not consider him ? and in fact never cite him ? as one of their own. Bruno Clément reads Henri Bergson as a writer whose thought is inseparable from a tireless reflection on the question of his written expression.Clément adds new insights into Bergson?s philosophical achievements through an analysis of the literary techniques he develops to express his theoretical insights. This close analysis of rhetorical technique analyses the effect on Bergson?s philosophical texts. Reading all of Bergson?s philosophical texts with the tools of literature, to systematically consider the theoretical consequences, he reveals that Bergson was not only a philosopher but a highly skilled and innovative writer.

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Book SynopsisAnimates the conversional potential of language by exploring the catalytic force of words across diverse cultures and linguistic systems.

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Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance to orthodoxy has persisted, and for this reason this companion explores modernist heresies ? cultural, aesthetic, critical, epistemological ? that stretch back to the late nineteenth-century and forward to present day. Contributors widen the temporal, conceptual, generic, and geographical definitions of Irish modernism by investigating crosscurrents between literary form and cultural transformation through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book enriches the canon of Irish modernism by recovering lesser-known works by both neglected and canonical writers, especially women poets and novelists.

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Book SynopsisIAIN MORLAND is Lecturer in Cultural Criticism at Cardiff University.DR DINO WILLOX is currently Director of Student Employability at the University of Queensland, responsible for empowering students to identify, engage with, and learn from experiences that enhance their studies and develop their employability.

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Book SynopsisGloria Lauri-Lucente is Director of the Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies, Head of the Department of Italian and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta, Malta.Trade ReviewDoes style matter? It is a question that goes right to the heart of the traditionally fraught relationship between literature and philosophy. Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy is an important and timely collection of essays that answers this question with an emphatic and compelling ‘yes'. Offering an impressive range of profound and engaging reflections on the question of style in its various literary and philosophical manifestations, Style in Theory shows us why we ought to be thinking about style differently. -- Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, The New School, New York, USA[T]he volume makes a valuable contribution to the study of style at the intersection of literature and philosophy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty. -- P.I. Vieira, Georgetown University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: 'Style in Theory and Practice: Literature, Philosophy, and Writing the Space Between' Ivan Callus, James Corby, Gloria Lauri-Lucente 1. Style in Theory - Styling Theory Jean-Michel Rabate (University of Pennsylvania) 2. Style in Deconstruction Laurent Milesi (Cardiff University) 3. Style and History in Diderot and Winckelmann Saul Anton (The New School & Pratt) 4. Petrarch and the Birth of Style Gloria Lauri-Lucente (University of Malta) 5. Style, Rhetoric and Identity in Shakespearean Soliloquy Stuart Sillars (University of Bergen) 6. Theory ... For Life Stefan Herbrechter (Coventry University) 7. Style is the Man: Meillassoux, Heidegger and Finitude James Corby (University of Malta) 8. Style and Arrogance: The Ethics of Heidegger's Style Chris Muller (Cardiff University) 9. Nietzsche, Style, Body Douglas Burnham (Staffordshire University) 10. Style in communication: The Hip Swing of Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés Fiona Hughes (University of Essex) 11. Writing without (Re)Styl(e)(ing) : Hélène Cixous on the Path of Error Janice Sant (Cardiff University) 12. Deleuze or the V-Effect: Philosophy on a Mobile Cusp Marie-Dominique Garnier (Université de Paris-8 Vincennes-à-St-Denis) 13. 'This song to come, this reader to become': Reading Blanchot's Style of Paradox in 'René Char' Mario Aquilina (Durham University) 14. Learning to Style Finally: Lateness in Theory Ivan Callus (University of Malta) Afterword Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNow in its seventh edition, Studying the Novel is an authoritative introduction to the study of the novel at undergraduate level. Updated throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the contemporary study of literature, the book also now includes a wider range of international examples to reflect the growing field of world literature.Providing a complete guide to studying the novel in one easy-to-read volume, the book covers: The form of the novel The history of the novel, from its earliest days to new electronic forms Realism, modernism and postmodernism Analysing fiction: narrative, character, structure, theme and dialogue Critical approaches to studying the novel Practical guidance on critical reading, secondary criticism, electronic resources and essay writing Versions and adaptationsStudying the Novel also includes a number of features to help readers navigate the book and find key information quickly, including chapter summaries tTrade ReviewAn excellent resource, not only for students studying the novel at university, but for trainee teachers teaching the novel in schools. * Michaela Smith, Edge Hill University, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the seventh edition 1. Fiction and the Novel 2. History, Genre, Culture 3. Shorter Fiction 4. Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism 5. Fiction and Electronic Media 6. Analysing Fiction 7. Studying the Novel 8. Versions and Adaptations 9. Critical Approaches to Fiction Timeline of the Novel Glossary of Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisShakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category human is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the playwright's work. Drawing on a variety of methodologies cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new materialisms the volume investigates the world of Shakespeare's plays and poems in order to represent more thoroughly its variety, its ethics of inclusion, and its resistance to human triumphalism and exceptionalism. Karen Raber, a leading scholar in the field, clearly and cogently guides the reader through complex theoretical terrain, providing fresh, exciting readings of plays including Othello, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida and Henry IV Part 1.Trade ReviewAn excellent orientation to this theory and practice that will interest multiple audiences. In no-nonsense prose, Raber sets out the intellectual genealogy of posthumanism… * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: We Have Never Been Humanist: Genealogies of Posthumanism Chapter 2: Posthuman Cosmography Chapter 3: Bodies and Minds Chapter 4: Neither Fish nor Fowl Chapter 5: TechnoBard Chapter 6: Post-posthumanism? Back to the Future Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRepresentations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to 20th-century literature and film.

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Book SynopsisHow does the body's sense of its own movement shift when confronted with modernist film? How might travel by motorcar disorientate one sufficiently to bring about an existential crisis? This book offers a coherent history of ideas of the haptic, tracing their impact on literary innovation.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, 'Reading the Times' offers fresh insight into modern narrative.

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Book SynopsisExplores the materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolf's modernism affected understandings of materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary theoretical debates?

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture's emergent 'cinematicity' as a key creative driver of Joyce's experimental fiction, showing how Joyce's style and themes share the cinematograph's roots in Victorian optical entertainment and science.

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Book SynopsisThese 13 essays consolidate and critique Ranciere's work on literature, from his archival investigations of the literary efforts of 19th-century workers to his engagements with specific novelists and poets, and from his concept of 'literarity' to his central positioning of the novel in his account of the three 'regimes' of literary practice.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines late 19th-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.

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Book SynopsisConsidering an unprecedented range of literary, political and archival materials, it explores how questions of 'voice', language and identity featured in debates leading to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999.

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the complexity and richness of Merchant's Jewish aspect, spanning encounters with Jews and the Hebrew Bible in the early modern world as well as modern adaptations of Shakespeare's play on the Yiddish stage.

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Book SynopsisSamuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett s major post-1945 works.

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Book SynopsisThrough detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction.

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Book SynopsisBringing together Luce Irigaray's early psychoanalytically orientated writings with her more recent and more explicitly political writings, this book weaves together the ontological, political and ethical dimensions of Irigaray's philosophy of sexuate difference in imaginative ways.

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Book SynopsisMasculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: anxiety, conformity and masculinity 1. ‘Organisation Man’, domestic ideology and manhood 2. ‘Everything in him had come undone’: violent aggression, courage, and masculine identity 3. Representing sexualities and gender 4. Identity and assimilation in Jewish-American fiction 5. African-American identity and masculinity Afterword Works cited and consulted Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection examine Conrad's engagement with specific lexical sets and terminology maritime language, the language of terror, and abstract language; issues of linguistic communication speech, hearing, and writing; and his relationship to specific languages.

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Book SynopsisCombining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of Henry James s, H. Melville s and H. G. Wells s novels question notions of natural order as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective.

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Book SynopsisThis bold new study uses counterfactual thinking to enable us to feel, rather than to explain, Shakespeare s tragedies.

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Book SynopsisExamines the full stylistic range of the novels and biographies which Trollope explored in his final decade

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Book SynopsisZoe Beenstock examines the relationship between two major traditions which have not been considered in conjunction: British Romanticism and social contract philosophy. Her reading offers a new understanding of canonical accounts of retreat by some of British Romanticism s most dominant voices.

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Book SynopsisModernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers' demonstrates how five female novelists of the interwar period engaged with an emerging fashion discourse that concealed capitalist modernity's economic reliance on mass-manufactured, uniform-looking productions by ostensibly celebrating originality and difference.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic' introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary women's short stories and introduces a new way of theorising feminism in the genre through the concept of 'the moment'.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary women's short stories and introduces a new way of theorising feminism in the genre through the concept of 'the moment'.

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