Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we ...

Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we ...

In an innovative and invigorating exploration of the complex relations between women and the mode...

Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always...

Recent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying t...

Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these ...

Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-eviden...

Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. B...

In an innovative and invigorating exploration of the complex relations between women and the mode...

An extended volume of New Literary History that considers the practice of comparison in literary ...

How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and p...

The look of love . . . through an analytic lens Long treated with skepticism in literary and cult...