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1. Epic

   By Paul Innes

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   This student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies. Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary examples this volume discusses: a wide range of writers including Homer, Vergil, Ovid, Dante,...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Spatiality

   By Robert Tally Jr.

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the ‘spatial turn’ presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history. Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today,...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Temporalities

   By Russell West-Pavlov

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and interrogates the most important theories of...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. Romanticism

   2nd Edition

   By Aidan Day

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
5. Ecocriticism

   2nd Edition

   By Greg Garrard

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production, from Wordsworth and Thoreau through to Google Earth, J.M. Coetzee and Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man. Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible volume...

   Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge
6. Intertextuality

   2nd Edition

   By Graham Allen

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Theories of intertextuality suggest that meaning in a text can only ever be understood in relation to other texts; no work stands alone but is interlinked with the tradition that came before it and the context in which it is produced. This idea of intertextuality is crucial to understanding...

   Published May 18th 2011 by Routledge
7. Travel Writing

   By Carl Thompson

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   An increasingly popular genre – addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics – travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. In this volume, Carl Thompson: introduces the genre, outlining competing...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
8. Dialogue

   By Peter Womack

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Dialogue is a many-sided critical concept; at once an ancient philosophical genre, a formal component of fiction and drama, a model for the relationship of writer and reader, and a theoretical key to the nature of language. In all its forms, it questions ‘literature’, disturbing the singleness and...

   Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge
9. Sexuality

   2nd Edition

   By Joseph Bristow

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. This fully updated second edition includes: a historical account of sexuality from the...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
10. Autobiography

    2nd Edition

    By Linda Anderson

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    If every writer necessarily draws on their own life, is any writing outside the realm of ‘autobiography’? The new edition of this classic guide is fully updated to include: developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts different forms of the...

    Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge