Literary theory Literary theory
Inner Workings of the Novel Studying a Genre Allan H. Pasco, Hall Professor of NineteenthCentury Literature, Department of French & Italian, University of Kansas, USA
Pasco analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French works to suggest a definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulties: a relatively long, artistically designed, prose fiction. He permits literary aficionados to reevaluate novels through comparisons with other genres and both recent and former traditions. January 2011 Hardback
210pp £52.50
234x156mm 978-0-230-10698-7
Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory Julian Wolfreys, Loughborough University, UK October 2003 Hardback Paperback
312pp £55.00 £18.99
234x156mm 978-0-333-96058-5 978-0-333-96059-2
ebook available from: Myilibrary
Towards a New Literary Humanism Edited by Andrew Mousley, Senior Lecturer in English, De Montfort University, UK
‘This book stands out as an intervention in postpoststructuralist debates, alongside the ‘new aesthetics’, ‘singularities’, the ‘new ethics’, and other efforts to formulate the critical trajectories of the new millennium, and will have a significant impact on the way literary studies will shape its theoretical debates in the near future.’ - Tim Woods, Professor in English and American Studies, Aberystwyth University, UK Literature cultivates ‘deep selves’ for whom books matter because they take over from religion fundamental questions about the meaning of existence. This volume embraces and questions this perspective, whilst also developing a ‘new humanist’ critical vocabulary which specifies, and therefore opens to debate, the human significance of literature. Contents: List of Contributors / Acknowledgments / Introduction: Towards a New Literary Humanism; A.Mousley / PART I: LITERATURE AS ERSATZ THEOLOGY: DEEP SELVES / Introduction; A.Mousley / Faith, Feeling, Reality: Anne Brontë as an Existentialist Poet; R.Styler / Virginia Woolf, Sympathy and Feeling for the Human; K.Martin / Being Human and being Animal in TwentiethCentury Horse-Whispering Writings: ‘Word-Bound Creatures’ and ‘the Breath of Horses’; E.Graham / Judith Butler and the Catachretic Human; I.Arteel / PART II: SCEPTICISM, OR HUMANISM AT THE LIMIT / Introduction; A.Mousley / Shakespeare’s Refusers: Humanism at the Limit; R.Chamberlain / Why Eliot Killed Lydgate: ‘Joyful Cruelty’ in Middlemarch; S.Earnshaw / Atomised: Mary Midgley and Michel Houellebecq; J.Wallace / Humanity without Itself: Robert Musil, Giorgio Agamben and Posthumanism; I.Callus & S.Herbrechter / PART III: LITERATURE, DEMOCRACY, HUMANISMS FROM BELOW / Introduction; A.Mousley / Mobilising Unbribable Life: The Politics of Contemporary Poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina; D.Arsenijević / HUM (-an, -ane, -anity, -anities, -anism, -anise); M.Robson / Humanising Marx: Theory and Fiction in the Fin de Siècle British Socialist Periodical; D.Mutch / Civic Humanism: Said, Brecht and Coriolanus; N.Wood / References / Index January 2011 Hardback
56
256 pp £50.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-23815-2
Digressions in European Literature From Cervantes to Sebald Edited by Alexis Grohmann, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK and Caragh Wells, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, University of Bristol, UK
With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day. Contents: Foreword; R.Chambers / Acknowledgments / Notes on Contributors / Introduction / The Twists and Turns of Life: Cervantes’s Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda; J.Robbins / Digressive and Progressive Movements: Sympathy and Sexuality in Tristram Shandy; or, Plain Tales; J.Hawley / Little Dorrit: Dickens, Circumlocution, Unconscious Thought; J.Tambling / Concerning Metaphor, Digression and Rhyme (Fetish Aesthetics and the Walking Poem); R.Chambers / Henry James, in Parenthesis; I.F.A.Bell / A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog; P.J.Rabinowitz & C.Bancroft / ‘Let’s forget all I have just said’: Diversions and Digressions in Gidean Narratives; D.Walker / Errant Eyes: Digression, Metaphor and Desire in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time; M.Topping / Virginia Woolf and Digression: Adventures in Consciousness; L.Marcus / Stealing the Story: Robert Walser’s Robber-Novel; S.Frederick / Negotiating Tradition: Flann O’Brien’s Tales of Digression and Subversion; F.Coulouma / ‘Going On’: Digression and Consciousness in The Beckett Trilogy; E.J.Smyth / Straight Line or Aimless Wandering? Italo Calvino’s Way to Digression; O.Santovetti / Roving with a Compass; Digression, the Novel and the Creative Imagination in Javier Marías; A.Grohmann / The Sense of Sebald’s Endings...and Beginnings; J.J.Long / Index November 2010 240pp 1 b/w photograph Hardback £50.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-24798-7
Order securely online at www.palgrave.com or telephone +44 (0)1256 302866