Things Merely Are

Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

By Simon Critchley

This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35631-2 (Routledge)

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Crime Fiction

By John Scaggs

Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31824-2 (Routledge)

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Postcolonial Pacific Writing

Representations of the Body

By Michelle Keown

This major new interdisciplinary study focuses on the representation of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. Drawing on...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29957-2 (Routledge)

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Culture and the Real

Theorizing Cultural Criticism

By Catherine Belsey

What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities?...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25289-8 (Routledge)

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Popular Fiction

The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

By Ken Gelder

In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively, progressive and comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary field. Drawing on a wide...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35647-3 (Routledge)

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International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Edited by Peter Hunt

Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education,...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29053-1 (Routledge)

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Polemic

Critical or Uncritical

Edited by Jane Gallop

What is criticism supposed to do? Is polemic a legitimate face of criticism, or simply its excess? What does it mean to read critically or...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97228-4 (Routledge)

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Literature, Culture and Society

By Andrew Milner

As cultural studies has grown from its origins on the margins of literary studies, it has tended to discard both literature and sociology in favour...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30785-7 (Routledge)

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Dangerous Desire

Literature of Sexual Freedom and Sexual Violence Since the Sixties

By Pamela Barnett

In Dangerous Desire, Pamela Barnett explores the jarring, frequent juxtaposition of sexual freedom and rape in American literature of and about the 1960s. Why were...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97050-1 (Routledge)

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Medieval Rhetoric

A Casebook

Edited by Scott D. Troyan

This new volume in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series explores medieval rhetorical practices. Ten original essays examine the ways in which contemporary readers and...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97163-8 (Routledge)

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