Books in the Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies series

Presents an overview of criticism on the full range of twentieth-century American drama, and a substantial anthology that reflects the changing critical perspectives. This book covers a variety of themes, from the battles over realism and expressionism at the beginning of the century to the emergence of Freudian and myth criticism, and more.

Bringing together fundamental essays from across a spectrum of disciplines, this volume is organized so that each volume focuses on one general interest group or area.

A collection of critical concepts in Gender and Modernism.

Feminism has a long and complex tradition. These volumes provide a resource for students and researchers to the many debates and discussions to which feminists have contributed over the past two hundred years. The set is fully indexed.

This set documents the scope of postcolonialism as a multidisciplinary project re-examining the history and legacy of colonialism from the perspectives of the colonized as well as the colonizers.

This collection offers an overview of the history of modernism as a critical concept in Anglo-American literary criticism from the 1890s to the present day.

This set charts the ways in which deconstruction is conceptualised and demonstrates the impact it has had on a wide range of traditions - areas as diverse as psychoanalysis, law, gender studies and architecture.

This collection brings together key works which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced and undermined received ideas about literature and culture.

This collection reflects the growing importance of the concept of performance across a variety of disciplines. It brings together major texts articulating perspectives on performance and performativity.

The works included in this collection are drawn from a broad range of canonical and secondary sources and emphasize the "new", covering modernist and post-modernist perspectives of urban culture. Issues such as gender, class, race, age and disability are covered in an urban context from around the globe.

Sketching the history, breadth and applicability of narrative theory, thus demonstrating its value as an analytical instrument, this collection includes articles from Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, Tzvetan Todorov and Jean-Francois Lyotard.

The academic study of folklore is a worldwide, interdisciplinary field spanning the humanities and the social sciences. This set of volumes provides students and researchers with a comprehensive collection of articles covering the principal theoretical and methodological concepts.

The analysis of life-writing as a distinct and specialized project emerged only in the second half of the twentieth century. This collection covers various schools of thought and brings together both 'mainstream' and 'dissident' theorists, authors and texts. It includes an introduction by the editor, an index and a chronological table of contents.

Contains four volumes that span the historical emergence and the impact of modern drama on critical thought. This collection focuses on the origins of modern drama as well as on the narrative of its development.