Literary Theory and Literary Studies

Analyses of conspirational thinking in Eastern European cultures and literatures.

Laura Bieger discusses American novels from four centuries to show how the human need to belong is a driving force of literary production.

Some stories authors tell in the second person. The book explains what happens – narratively – because of you.

What do literary texts tell us about growing old? Representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature.

This is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of documentary urban narratives of the 21st century.

The collection of essays stresses the complex link between aesthetic and non-aesthetic emotional components. Readers interested in the topic will be presented with a concept of aesthetic emotions as both formative within the writing and the reading process.