DIVA psychoanalytic exploration through a series of reading of Latin American fiction of Roland Barthes' contention that literary texts have human form and are always an ...

Colonial histories are more about the colonizers than the people they colonized, concentrating on margins of Philippine colonial society and particular historical knowledge ...

Examples of plays from Oedipus to the present appear throughout the book, and individual chapters are dedicated to sustained discussions of William Shakespeare's King Lear, Tom ...

Representation is the subject of this book, representation taken in a series of senses, from the formal and linguistic to the social and political. Representation poses a ...

This study focuses on Esther Tusquets's published work (four novels and a collection of short stories) and elaborates a potential aesthetics of power as it is manifested in and ...

A concept of illusion was fundamental to the theory and practice of literary representation in Henry James' work. This book offers readings of James' fictional and critical ...

This volume explores the theories and methodologies that help us to learn more about readers. It presents a comprehensive review of the major research theories on response, and ...

This book examines the relations between the textual organization of Ulysses and the notions of time, language and poetics implicit in the novel. Making use of recent ...

In Gilmore's view, there are intrinsic limits to a style, limits that are present from its beginning but that emerge only as, or after, it reaches the end of its history ...