By: Roger Chartier (College de France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745661858, Pub Date US Feb 2013, Pub Date RoW Dec 2012, Pub Date Aus Dec 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745661841, Pub Date US Feb 2013, Pub Date RoW Dec 2012, Pub Date Aus Dec 2012

Description: How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be establi...

By: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650791, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650784, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011

Description: The literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual este...

By: Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639543, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745639536, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011

Description: Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has re...

By: Michael Minden (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629209, Pub Date US Mar 2011, Pub Date RoW Feb 2011, Pub Date Aus Feb 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745629193, Pub Date US Mar 2011, Pub Date RoW Feb 2011, Pub Date Aus Feb 2011

Description: This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies...

By: Hélène Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Études Féminines at Paris VIII University, France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648163, Pub Date US Feb 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745648156, Pub Date US Feb 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010

Description: Philippines is Hélène Cixous's reverie or 'true dreaming' which intertwines Freud's uneasy views on telepathy, autobiographical memorie...

By: Hélène Cixous and Laurent Milesi
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644165, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644158, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010

Description: Zero's Neighbour is Hélène Cixous's tribute to the minimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness in his writing like...

By: Jeanie C. Crain (Missouri Western State University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745635088, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745635071, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010

Description: Reading the Bible as Literature provides the ideal entry-point to the process of reading, understanding, and assessing what many recognize to be the ...

By: Alison Finch
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745628400, Pub Date US Jul 2010, Pub Date RoW Jun 2010, Pub Date Aus Jun 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745657196, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literatur...

By: Katie Normington (University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636047, Pub Date US May 2009, Pub Date RoW Apr 2009, Pub Date Aus Apr 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654867, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places partic...

By: Andrew Baruch Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636863, Pub Date US May 2009, Pub Date RoW Mar 2009, Pub Date Aus Mar 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654577, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsk...

By: Suman Gupta
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640242, Pub Date US Dec 2008, Pub Date RoW Nov 2008, Pub Date Aus Nov 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640235, Pub Date US Dec 2008, Pub Date RoW Nov 2008, Pub Date Aus Nov 2008

Description: This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing...

By: Mary Trotter
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633435, Pub Date US Nov 2008, Pub Date RoW Sep 2008, Pub Date Aus Sep 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633428, Pub Date US Nov 2008, Pub Date RoW Sep 2008, Pub Date Aus Sep 2008

Description: Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction...

By: Hélène Cixous
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639895, Pub Date US Aug 2008, Pub Date RoW Jul 2008, Pub Date Aus Jul 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745639888, Pub Date US Aug 2008, Pub Date RoW Jul 2008, Pub Date Aus Jul 2008

Description: Love’s memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: Cixous’s writer-narrator advances here ...

By: James Smith (University of Queensland)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636092, Pub Date US Jul 2008, Pub Date RoW May 2008, Pub Date Aus May 2008
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636108, Pub Date US Jul 2008, Pub Date RoW May 2008, Pub Date Aus May 2008

Description: Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments ...

By: Christopher Cannon (Fellow of Girton College and University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745624426, Pub Date US Apr 2008, Pub Date RoW Feb 2008, Pub Date Aus Feb 2008
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654768, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argu...

By: Sandra Clark (Birkbeck College)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633114, Pub Date US Nov 2007, Pub Date RoW Sep 2007, Pub Date Aus Sep 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633107, Pub Date US Nov 2007, Pub Date RoW Sep 2007, Pub Date Aus Sep 2007

Description: Renaissance Drama provides a comprehensive and engaging new account of one of the richest periods of theatre history: the drama of early modern Engla...

By: Karin Littau (University of Essex)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745616599, Pub Date US Dec 2006, Pub Date RoW Dec 2006, Pub Date Aus Dec 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745616582, Pub Date US Feb 2007, Pub Date RoW Dec 2006, Pub Date Aus Dec 2006

Description: Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that readers...

By: Lynne Pearce (University of Lancaster)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745630052, Pub Date US Jan 2007, Pub Date RoW Dec 2006, Pub Date Aus Dec 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745630045, Pub Date US Jan 2007, Pub Date RoW Dec 2006, Pub Date Aus Dec 2006

Description: Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present...

By: Colin Bulman
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636887, Pub Date US Dec 2006, Pub Date RoW Oct 2006, Pub Date Aus Oct 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636870, Pub Date US Dec 2006, Pub Date RoW Oct 2006, Pub Date Aus Oct 2006

Description: All writers are familiar with terms like plot, suspense, conflict and character. They may be less familiar with intertextuality, anachrony, and fabul...

By: Katja Behling and R.D.V. Glasgow
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633381, Pub Date US Mar 2006, Pub Date RoW Jan 2006, Pub Date Aus Jan 2006

Description: Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Vienn...

By: Charles J. Rzepka (Boston University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629421, Pub Date US Sep 2005, Pub Date RoW Aug 2005, Pub Date Aus Aug 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745629414, Pub Date US Sep 2005, Pub Date RoW Aug 2005, Pub Date Aus Aug 2005

Description: Detective Fiction is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood, characters and texts of the modern day. Charles J. ...

By: Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745628936, Pub Date US May 2005, Pub Date RoW Mar 2005, Pub Date Aus Mar 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745628929, Pub Date US May 2005, Pub Date RoW Mar 2005, Pub Date Aus Mar 2005

Description: In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its...

By: Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629834, Pub Date US Jun 2005, Pub Date RoW Mar 2005, Pub Date Aus Mar 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745629827, Pub Date US Jun 2005, Pub Date RoW Apr 2005, Pub Date Aus Apr 2005

Description: The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a g...

By: Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) and Walter Benjamin (Frankfurt School)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745632148, Pub Date RoW Sep 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745618180, Pub Date RoW Aug 1999, Pub Date Aus Aug 1999

Description: The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno...

By: Bernard-Henri Levy (Counseil de Surveillance of La Sept-Arte)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745630090, Pub Date US Sep 2003, Pub Date RoW Jul 2003, Pub Date Aus Jul 2003

Description: ‘A whole man, made of all men, worth all of them, and any one of them worth him.’ This was how Jean-Paul Sartre characterized himself at ...

By: Nicholas Harrison (Kings College, London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745621821, Pub Date US Apr 2003, Pub Date RoW Mar 2003, Pub Date Aus Mar 2003

Description: In the field of postcolonial studies, the full richness and complexity of the connections between literature, history and ideology are often overlook...

By: Dorothy Hobson (University of Wolverhampton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626550, Pub Date US Jan 2003, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626543, Pub Date US Jan 2003, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002

Description: The soap opera is a major form of media art and popular culture. Revered and reviled by fans and critics, its history spans and reflects social chang...

Edited by: Richard Lane (South Bank University), Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge) and Philip Tew (University College Northampton)
By: Richard Lane (South Bank University), Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge) and Philip Tew (University College Northampton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745628677, Pub Date US Jan 2003, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745628660, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002

Description: This important new book provides a comprehensive introduction to British fiction from 1979 to the present. The volume outlines the main developments ...

By: Geoff Ward
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626222, Pub Date US Jun 2002, Pub Date RoW Apr 2002, Pub Date Aus Apr 2002

Description: In this lively and provocative study, Geoff Ward puts forward the bold claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literar...

Edited by: Marco Belpoliti (Independent Scholar) and Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge)
By: Primo Levi (Holocaust Survivor, Writer and Scientist), Marco Belpoliti (Independent Scholar) and Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745621500, Pub Date RoW Dec 2000, Pub Date Aus Dec 2000
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745621494, Pub Date RoW Dec 2000, Pub Date Aus Dec 2000

Description: Over the course of more than twenty-five years, Primo Levi gave more than two hundred newspaper, journal, radio and television interviews speaking wi...

Edited by: Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge)
By: Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619576, Pub Date US Aug 1999, Pub Date RoW May 1999, Pub Date Aus May 1999

Description: This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to fiction in the English-speaking world during the period from 1970 to the present day. During thi...

By: Michael Caesar
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745608501, Pub Date US Aug 1999, Pub Date RoW May 1999, Pub Date Aus May 1999
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745608495, Pub Date US Aug 1999, Pub Date RoW May 1999, Pub Date Aus May 1999

Description: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today....

By: Axel Honneth (Free University, Berlin)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745618388, Pub Date RoW Oct 1996, Pub Date Aus Oct 1996
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745611600, Pub Date RoW Apr 1995, Pub Date Aus Apr 1995

Description: In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social...

By: Janet Wolff (University of Rochester, New York)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745608556, Pub Date US Jan 1991, Pub Date RoW Nov 1990, Pub Date Aus Nov 1990

Description: This new book integrates material drawn from a variety of sources - feminist theory, cultural and literary analysis, sociology and art history - in a...

By: Susanne Kappeler (Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al-Akhawayn University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745601229, Pub Date RoW Jun 1986, Pub Date Aus Jun 1986

Description: This book marks a radical and powerful intervention in traditional arguments about pornography. Kappeler re-examines the artistic distinctions betwee...