Critical Concepts

First published in 1990. Balzac, Zola and Faulkner all drew upon the principles of evolutionary theory to represent man’s place in nature and his struggle for survival in their major series La Comèdie humaine, Rougon-Macquart and the Yoknapatawpha fiction. This book focuses on the ‘first’ novels in ..

Making an original contribution to interdisciplinary narrative studies and narrative ethics, this volume explores the ethical potential and risks of storytelling. It stages a dialogue between contemporary literature and visual arts across media, interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives (debates in..

_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of the sense that while the theory of biophilia has productively addressed ideal human affinities with nature, the capacity of "the biophilia hypothesis" as an explanatory model of human/environment relations is limited. The biophilia hy..

This collection of essays attempts to analyse common assumptions about art, literature and criticism at the time of publication in 1895. This title will be of interest to students of Literature, Art and Art History...