In a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. David Kennedy provides an overview of the history of the term and the different ways in which it is used.
In a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. David Kennedy provides...
In this book, Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it, and traces its history through 19th and 20th century readings, incorporating contemporary debates.
In this book, Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it, and traces its ...
Anne Whitehall presents a history of the concept of 'memory' and its uses, encompassing both memory as activity and the nature of memory. She introduces the reader to key thinkers in the field, from Ancient Greece onwards.
Anne Whitehall presents a history of the concept of 'memory' and its uses, encompassing both memory as activity and the nature of memory. She introduc...
Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic.
This fully updated second edition includes:
a historical account of sexuality from the Victorians to the present
discussions of the most influential theorists including Freud, Lacan, Bataille, Baudrillard, Cixous, Deleuze, Irigaray and Kristeva
a new and extended discussion of queer and transgender theory, race, ethnicity and...
Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers t...
Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century.
In this useful guide, Jeremy Tambling:
presents a concise history of allegory, providing numerous examples from Medieval forms to the present day
considers the relationship between allegory and symbolism
analyses the use of allegory in modernist debate and deconstruction, looking at critics such as Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man
provides a...
Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for ...
The historical novel is not only an immensely popular genre, but also one that raises fascinating questions about the nature of key foundational concepts such as fact and fiction, history, reading and writing. This wide-ranging guide offers an accessible introduction to both the genre and the critical debates around it.
The historical novel is not only an immensely popular genre, but also one that raises fascinating questions about the nature of key foundational conce...
Interdisciplinarity covers one of the most important changes in attitude and methodology in the history of the university.
Taking the study of English as its main example, this fully updated second edition examines the ways in which we have organized knowledge into disciplines, and are now reorganizing it into new configurations as existing structures come to seem restrictive. Joe Moran traces the history and use of the term interdisciplinarity, tackling such vital topics as:
the rise of the disciplines
interdisciplinary English
Literary...
Interdisciplinarity covers one of the most important changes in attitude and methodology in the history of the university.
This text offers an introduction to the study of autobiography, and provides a historical overview of autobiographical writing from St Augustine to the present day. It outlines the main theoretical issues and concepts of this genre.
This text offers an introduction to the study of autobiography, and provides a historical overview of autobiographical writing from St Augustine to th...
This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genre assesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy tale provides a detailed account of the historical development of the fairy tale as a literary form engages with the major ideological controversies that have shaped critical and creative approaches to fairy tales in the 20th and 21st centuries demonstrates that the fairy tale is a highly metamorphic genre that has flourished in diverse...
This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It explores the ways in which folklorists hav...
