Literary theory books

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

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

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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 >>

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

""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 >>

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

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection shows how transformative the study of rhythm can be across the humanities...  Read More >>

The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary...  Read More >>

A one-of-a-kind overview of the lasting impact of mimetic theory and the extent of its interdisciplinary applications,...  Read More >>

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In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the wayour lives are shaped...  Read More >>

Court decisions can neither be made nor drafted without references to other texts; citations are omnipresent in...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>