Marisa Bortolussi & Peter Dixon 
Psychonarratology [PDF ebook] 
Foundations for the Empirical Study of Literary Response

Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan …

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the form of the modernist long poem. Beginning with …

What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the Renaissance understood characters as types. They thought the job of …

Published in 1931: The Epyllion From Theocritus to Ovid discusses Greek Epics along with extracts of Poems. …

Originally published in 1982, this book includes The Arte of Rhetorique by Thomoas Wilson, alongisde a critical analysis by Thomoas J. Derrick. It includes chapters on biographical context, a critica …

In the second decade of the nineteenth century, the British press began a campaign of critical abuse against Leigh Hunt, caricaturing the radical journalist as an upstart ’Cockney’ author whose liter …

The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume …

Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter, 1302/03-1373) and her younger contemporary Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa, 1347-1380) form the most powerful and influential female duo in European …

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, ’The Death of the Author, ’ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …

First published in 2006. Women and Romanticism’s third volume covers Poetics, the Novel and Authorship and brings together work on poetics, the novel and authorship. Joanna Baillie and Elizabeth Hami …