Literary theory books

This open access book explores the excesses, distortions and perverse effects that emerge when art and popular culture...  Read More >>

This Element centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and...  Read More >>

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing his theoretical development within the vibrant...  Read More >>

This book unveils the latest trends and developments in Asian creative writing, serving as a vital resource for...  Read More >>

This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Tale of Terror pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study...  Read More >>

This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Symbolist Movement in Literature pairs the complete original text with carefully...  Read More >>

This Element centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and...  Read More >>

Examines a variety of representations and forms of anger in 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone literature to show...  Read More >>

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing his theoretical development within the vibrant...  Read More >>

Nostalgia, Fantasy, and the Futures of Masculinity explores how nostalgia-driven fantasies shape contemporary masculinity...  Read More >>

Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy. What ethical lessons...  Read More >>

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This book attempts to provide a basic theory for all narratives, in order to shake narratology off its age-long...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

No Place Like Home examines the home through the lens of female writers and thinkers across history, in order to...  Read More >>

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians,...  Read More >>

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

This book rethinks the relation between philosophy and literature as an agonic relation, not privileging either...  Read More >>

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

Brings together Maggie Humm's pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures....  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

Was zeichnet preisgekröntes Storytelling in Videospielen aus? Dieses essential analysiert 50 ausgezeichnete Titel...  Read More >>

This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood...  Read More >>