Arts, Literature and Humanities

This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s ...

The writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge are crucial to the literature of European Romanticism. As well as the early poems such as The Ancient Marin...

The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory is an indispensable aid for anyone approaching this exciting field of study for the first time. By explo...

Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and Am...

Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associat...

Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars a...

Coming to prominence with the nineteenth-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn aw...

This practical introduction for first time researchers provides a bridge between how to conduct research and the philosophy of social science, allo...

Introducing students to a range of key thinkers who have sought to question the contemporary situation, this guidebook enables readers to begin to ...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to 'postmodernism'. Most...

In this brilliantly provocative and comprehensively informative introductory text, Niall Lucy shows the student how postmodern literary theory work...

A powerful selection of essays by one of the most important critics in postcolonial studies, arguing for practices of reading and criticism fully a...

Pope to Burney, 1714-1779, Scriblerians to Bluestocking by Moyra Haslett, 113761207X, 9781137612076, Palgr Mac

Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imaginati...

Percy Bysshe Shelley by Paul Hamilton, 8126912936, 9788126912933, Atl-NorthH

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This c...

Oscar Wilde by Alexandra Warwick, 812691291X, 9788126912919, Atl-NorthH

Beginning with the nature of literature, this also asks the questions of why we should read literature and why literature has such authority over u...

With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considers deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and...

This comprehensive, accessible guidebook traces the ways in which human beings have used narrative to make sense of time, space and identity over t...

This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature. Provides a critical overview of...