Advanced students of literature, creative writing graduate students, and teachers will find in
this handbook a concise treatment of narrative form in fiction. A useful supplement to a …

In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism
to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close …

What should we do with a literary work? Is it best to become immersed in a novel or poem, or
is our job to objectively dissect it? Should we consult literature as a source of knowledge or …

New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is
theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism …

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies' embrace of
politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in …

Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value
of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The …

Literary studies in the twenty-first century have been characterized by a restlessness and
dissatisfaction with the everyday practice of criticism. This essay argues, firstly, that the …

Die amerikanische Literaturtheorie wurde seit den Anfängen der Literaturkritik und ihren
aufklärerischen Bildungsidealen im 18. Jh. sowie ihren kulturellen …

The popularization of the digital humanities and the return to formalism are overdetermined
by the perceived crises in the humanities. On the one hand, the new formalism harks back to …

This essay re-evaluates Kazuo Ishiguro's literary legacy in light of our contemporary
moment, noting how his work has changed our study of the novel and its institutions. It …