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Explains how intertextuality is employed in: structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, postcolonialism, marxism, feminism, and psychoanalytic theory. This book is suitable for the students of literature and culture.

Botting expertly introduces the transformations of the gothic through history, discussing key figures such as ghosts, monsters and vampires, as well as tracing its origins, characteristics, cultural significance and critical interpretations.

If every writer necessarily draws on their own life, is any writing outside the realm of 'autobiography'? This guide includes developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts different forms of the genre. It offers an introduction to the study of a fascinating genre.

An increasingly popular genre, addressing issues of space, language, colonialism, globalization and politics, travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. This book offers a useful introduction for those new to the subject, as well as a crucial overview of the terminology, history and debates within the field.

Traces the history and use of the term and tackles such topics as the rise of the disciplines and interdisciplinary English.