Auteur: Ben De Bruyn

Introduces the most important terms for understanding literature, past and present.Literature Now argues that modern literary history is currently the main site of theoretical and methodological …

Introduces the most important terms for understanding literature, past and present.Literature Now argues that modern literary history is currently the main site of theoretical and methodological …

Since the publication of his first novel in 1998, China Mieville has distinguished himself as one of the most exciting and inventive writers working in any genre in contemporary British fiction. The …

Since the publication of his first novel in 1998, China Mieville has distinguished himself as one of the most exciting and inventive writers working in any genre in contemporary British fiction. The …

Although Wolfgang Iser is one of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, there is no authoritative study about his oeuvre. The present work remedies that problem by analysin …

This book considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction seeks to imagine a mode of ‘planetary memory’ able to address the scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene – the epoch …

This book considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction seeks to imagine a mode of ‘planetary memory’ able to address the scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene – the epoch …

The contemporary novel is not as silent as we tend to believe, nor does it only attend to human plots and characters. As this book shows, writers in a range of subgenres have devoted co …