It has held sway in the humanities for nearly four decades, surviving even the great culture wars. But it is being used in surprising ways. Either literary theory is dead, or it’s invincible. It all ...

Interpreting Literatures through Literary Theories’ offers a rigorous and accessible exploration of literary theories. The ...

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded ...

A solid introduction to major trends in contemporary critical theory. Emphasis on producing a sample critical paper treating one or more current critical approaches ...

Introduces students to a wide range of critical theories that English majors need to know. Covers major movements in modern literary/critical theory, from Matthew Arnold through new criticism to ...

Today in literature: the rise and fall of literary theory, a very expensive Great Gatsby book jacket is hitting the auction block, and Agatha Christie's surf secrets get their own book.

This paper presents an algorithm for comparing the structure of content within texts based on mathematical notions derived from graph theory and semantic notions of the conceptual parse. This ...

The majority of humanities computing projects within the discipline of literature have been conceived more as digital libraries than monographs which utilise the medium as a site of interpretation.