Bücher der Reihe Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible.

The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analysed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as to consider the variety of ways repetition can structure a poetic text.

This work, through analysis of metaphors of conciousness, traces the significance of representations of knowledge, gender and social class, revealing how writers conceived of the self in modern literature.

This title suggests that although the treatment and evasion of the Holocaust in certain postmodern texts often seems irresponsible, the texts have a deep affinity with ethical theories anchored in notions of obsession, persecution and trauma.

The relationship of writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence. This book redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between literary practice and dominant economic institutions and ideas.

Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture, this book explores the philsophical, social, and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America's obsession with eliminating waste.

This book examines a sequence of crisis in nineteenth-century print culture in order to offer an original narrative of what it meant, and what it could have meant to be a Victorian Novelist.

Exploring the intertwined topics of nationalism, transnationalism and fundamentalism, Nyla Ali Khan discusses the representation of South Asian life in the works of four Anglophone writers: Naipaul, Rushdie, Ghosh and Desai.

Drawing on critical work by D A Miller, Joseph Allen Boone, Michel Foucault, and others, as well as on cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the author defines and explores what he calls the Victorian "conspiracy narrative tradition".

This book explores the ways in which the American writers Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and Zora Neale Hurston used modernist primitivism to assert a uniquely American literary identity in the face of European cultural hegemony.

Allegories of Violence demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if we understood war as discursive via late 20th century novels of war.

Juxtaposing the work of Reznikoff, Oppen and WC William, with the camera work of Walker Evans, Lewis Hine and Alfred Stieglitz, this book exposes the fundamental affinities between documentary photography and modern poetry as forms of expression. It demonstrates how these poets comprised an alternative "tradition" dedicated to social realism.

A study that explores those counter-seams of modern American writing that sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons. It analyses three literary branches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar 'outrider' voices; and, a purview of what has been designated 'ethnic' writing.

A study that considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period - Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore. It examines four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology, and textual experimentation.

Examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland's socio-political landscape. This book demonstrates the complex negotiation of nationalism, class, and gender identities undertaken by these authors in the years leading up to Ireland's revolution.

Analyzes Victorian working-class masculinity through the dual lenses of autobiography and fiction, examining the ways in which the literary marketplace helped to shape popular notions of gender, class and subjectivity. This book demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes.

Studying the work of Richard Wright and Simone de Beauvoir, this account examines the development of social constructionist concepts of race, gender and sexuality in the decade after 1945. It examines Beauvoir's use of, and dissent from, 1940s psychoanalytic theories of femininity, and also studies the social construction of sexuality in Baldwin.

Portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe. This book argues that the rhetoric of ruins lends a distinctive shape to the architecture and literature of the time and requires the novel to adjust notions of authorship and narrative to accommodate the prevailing aesthetic.

Looking at texts by authors such as Toomer, Morrison, Baldwin, and Kaufmann, this study describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture.

This is a collection of essays representative of diverse geographies, all of which underscore moments of disordered eating. The volume removes the pathology and stigma surrounding non-normative eating, highlighting these acts as expressions of resistance against the sociopolitical order of operations.

Focusing on plays which appear prominently in the writing of Irish nationalist movement of early twentieth century, this book explores how Irish writers such as Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney, resisted English cultural colonization through a combination of reappropriation and critique of Shakespeare's work.

Examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. This book shows that the relationship of these four writers demonstrates a continuity of thought between the two renaissance periods.

Using narrative theory and postcolonial theory, this study reveals the cultural changes that turned England from a nation that abstained from investing in the internationally conceived Suez Canal to an imperial power who, by 1875, owned it.

Presenting a way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions.

Explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a culturally unfamiliar place. This book examines the capacity of popular culture for social critique, and the relationship between leisure travel and postcolonial cultures.

Examines the unique cultural space of Victorian cathedral towns as they appear in the literary work of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, arguing that Dickens and Trollope use the cathedral town's enclosure, and its overt connections between sacred and secular as an ideal locus from which to critique Victorian religious attitudes.

Medical, popular, and literary understanding about the imagination converged when Thomas Willis asserted that he had discovered the area of the brain that facilitated imagining. Taking this 'discovery' as paradigmatic, this work examines the reverberations of the medical investigation of the imagination in early British novels.

Drawing on women's wills, merchants' tracts, mock testaments, mercantilist pamphlets and theatrical account books, and utilizing the work in economic theory and history, this book examines the history of economic thought as the history of discourse. It finds linguistic and generic stress placed on an ethics of credit that allows for self-interest.