Queering Femininity focuses on femininity as a style of gender presentation and asks how (and whether) it can be refigured as a creative and queer style of the body.
This volume provides a new outlook on twentieth-century theoretical schools and movements in the humanities, both as generators of conceptual knowledg..
Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, the notion that capitalism has become too abstract for all but the most rarefied specialists to under..
Opening the way for a reexamination of Matthew Arnold's contributions to ethical criticism, James Walter Caufield emphasizes the central role of philo..
This challenging and lively volume contains essays by Stephen Greenblatt, Elaine Showalter, Jonathan Goldberg, Stanley Cavell, Robert Weimann, Margare..
In this controversial and bracing study, Robert Young argues that today's theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the col..
A collection of internationally recognised scholars address the postmodern shake-up of theory, culture and politics, which has led to a new encounter ..
Through criticism of British cultural studies, New Historicism and cultural materialism, Easthope examines the discipline of cultural studies as it co..
`As good a short introduction to postmodernism as one is likely to find, providing an admirable model for the student who may feel lost in the jostlin..
`A major contribution to the developing field of the study of cultural performance ... a very impressive collection of essays from a number of the lea..
Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical an..
While in no way oversimplifying its complexity or glossing over the challenges it presents, Norris's book sets out to make deconstruction more accessi..