Literary theory books

The Novel and Neuroscience from Dostoevsky to Ishiguro explores how affective neuroscience illuminates the emotional...  Read More >>

Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women’s Novels examines a genre of ethnic American women’s literature,...  Read More >>

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential...  Read More >>

This book is for an international audience concerned about environmental crisis. It shows how writers across the...  Read More >>

This Element provides an analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches,...  Read More >>

Establishes Elizabeth von Arnim as an important figure in literary modernism.  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

Addresses the changing geographical and historical background to Conrad's life as a source for his developing artistic...  Read More >>

This book provides an important exploration of empathetic practices and approaches in and to creative writing –...  Read More >>

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Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical...  Read More >>

The book brings together philosophy, ecoculture and political ecology in a creative, critical and timely manner...  Read More >>

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""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

How does contemporary US-American literature reimagines narrative forms to confront humanity's impact in the Anthropocene?...  Read More >>

Animal Lives through Five Centuries of Art and Science confronts a deep paradox: humanity's greatest achievements...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

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