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Texts and Contexts

An Introduction to Literature and Language Study

By Adrian Beard

The idea of studying texts 'in context' has become a major new emphasis in contemporary literary studies. Texts and Contexts explores the idea of contexts…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22987-6 (Routledge)

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Identity, Narrative and Politics

By Maureen Whitebrook

Identity, Narrative and Politics argues that political theory has barely begun to develop a notion of narrative identity; instead the book explores the sophisticated ideas…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23895-3 (Routledge)

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The Essential Ilan Stavans

By Ilan Stavans

Here, Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost Latino scholars, collects his best essays into one volume. As a Mexican Jew whose native languages are…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92754-3 (Routledge)

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The Romantic Fiction Of Mills & Boon, 1909-1995

By Jay, Dixon, Jay Dixon.

This study to analyzes romantic fiction's depiction of women as part of the broader history of ideas about women.; Given the success of the Mills…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-1-85728-267-2 (Routledge)

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Feminist Poetics

Performance, Histories

By Terry Threadgold

Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-02939-1 (Routledge)

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Stylistics

By Richard Bradford

Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-09769-7 (Routledge)

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Language Through Literature

An Introduction

By Paul Simpson

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14964-8 (Routledge)

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Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook

By Keith Green, Jill LeBihan

Critical Teory and Practice answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader and workbook is ideal for the…

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1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-11439-4 (Routledge)

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English Studies in Transition

Papers from the Inaugural Conference of the European Society for the Study of English

Edited by Piero Boitani, Robert Clark

Bringing together twenty-five contributors from all over Europe, this volume represents the vitality and diversity of the current transcultural European dialogue on English studies.

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1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-09833-5 (Routledge)

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The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction

By Monika Fludernik

Monika Fludernik presents a detailed analysis of free indirect discourse as it relates to narrative theory, and the crucial problematic of how speech and thought…

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1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-09226-5 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Caliban's Voice: The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures
By Bill Ashcroft
To be published December 10th 2008

Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students
By Robert Eaglestone
To be published June 1st 2009

New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality
Edited by Ruth Page
To be published August 1st 2009

Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction
By Michaela Mahlberg
To be published August 31st 2009

Giorgio Agamben
By Alex Murray
To be published September 15th 2009

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