What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity

By Philip Armstrong

What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual...

Published January 21st 2008 by Routledge.

Batting for the Opposition

By John Bale

This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from...

Published November 6th 2007 by Routledge.

Modernism

By Peter Childs

The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what...

Published November 1st 2007 by Routledge.

Metaphor

By David Punter

Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and...

Published June 5th 2007 by Routledge.

By Robert Segal

Myth is truly boundlessly interdisciplinary. There is no field of myth studies itself. Rather, many disciplines have contributed theories of myth. In addition to theories...

Published April 27th 2007 by Routledge.

New Accents

Edited by Terence Hawkes

Published March 9th 2007 by Routledge.

Reading Renaissance Ethics

Edited by Marshall Grossman

Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical...

Published February 26th 2007 by Routledge.

Of Literature and Knowledge

Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution and Game Theory

By Peter Swirski

"Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting." –...

Published December 4th 2006 by Routledge.

Edited by Peter Hunt

The study of children’s literature is currently centred on literary studies, educational studies, and a third more diverse group of many other related disciplines, including...

Published June 5th 2006 by Routledge.

Mimesis

By Matthew Potolsky

A topic that has become increasingly central to the study of art, performance and literature, the term mimesis has long been used to refer to...

Published February 23rd 2006 by Routledge.