On Deconstruction

Theory and Criticism after Structuralism - revised edition

By JONATHAN CULLER

With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is...

February 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46151-1 (Routledge)

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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...

January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35839-2 (Routledge)

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Derrida's Legacies

Literature and Philosophy

Edited by Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone

This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a...

January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45428-5 (Routledge)

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Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf

By Joanne Tidwell

In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95817-2 (Routledge)

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Engines of the Imagination

Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine

By Jonathan Sawday

At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35062-4 (Routledge)

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Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

By Robin Bates

Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95816-5 (Routledge)

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Autism and Representation

By Mark Osteen

Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95644-4 (Routledge)

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Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption

Eating the Avant-Garde

By Michel Delville

From Plato’s dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant’s relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95831-8 (Routledge)

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Romanticism and Visuality

Fragments, History, Spectacle

By Sophie Thomas

This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96118-9 (Routledge)

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Anti-Sport Sentiments in Literature

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...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42265-9 (Routledge)

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