'Social construction'is a central metaphor in contemporary social science, yet it is used and
understood in widely divergent and indeed conflicting ways by different thinkers. Most …

In this book, Seumas Miller examines the moral foundations of contemporary social
institutions. Offering an original general theory of social institutions, he posits that all social …

Social action is central to social thought. This centrality reflects the overwhelming causal
significance of action for social life, the centrality of action to any account of social …

In Mimesis and the Human Animal, Robert Storey argues that human culture derives from
human biology and that literary representation therefore must have a biological basis. As he …

The virtual suppression of ethical and evaluative discourse by current literary theory can be
seen as the triumph of one post-Enlightenment tradition over others vital to a full account of …

With postmodernism and postructuralism sweeping the social sciences and humanities, a
whole generation of students from disciplines as diverse as history, English literature …

Why do medieval writers routinely make use of exemplary rhetoric? How does it work, and
what are its ethical and poetical values? And if Chaucer and Gower must be seen as …

This is an open access title. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. It is available to read and download as …

The great age for theory of satire stopped suddenly, shortly after 1970. Since then, the
principal object being described by the bulk of satire theory–classic literary satire, especially …

The Enchantment of English is a study of the teaching of English in Australian universities,
from its beginnings in the second half of the 19th century through to the 1960s and 1970s, a …