Literary theory books

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

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

This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  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 >>

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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""The Novel Experience makes a plea and offers a methodology for reclaiming and recentering the reading experience...  Read More >>

""The Novel Experience makes a plea and offers a methodology for reclaiming and recentering the reading experience...  Read More >>

The way in which the spectator responds to the song and how narrative, lyrics, music, mise-en-scenes, all come together...  Read More >>

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials...  Read More >>