Literary theory books

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This volume introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is an...  Read More >>

Giving Voice to Exile in Literature aims to provide undergraduate, graduate and professional readers with a nuanced...  Read More >>

This volume introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is an...  Read More >>

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How have global commodities such as coffee, oil and lithium shaped literary texts, movements and genres? And how...  Read More >>

This Element explores the landscape of anglophone trade bookselling in India, aiming to identify some key factors...  Read More >>

In this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie,...  Read More >>

Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature...  Read More >>

Why do people wear shirts with the Shakespeare quote “to be or not be?” or a portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek?...  Read More >>

This book defines nature writing as the creative practice of tracing the bodily and sensory enjoyment of nature—in...  Read More >>

Based on the long-established American law and literature movement, the interdisciplinary research field of 'law...  Read More >>

This volume offers a concise yet comprehensive machine-generated literature review of the multifaceted landscape...  Read More >>

Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting...  Read More >>

Explores the impact of modernist literature and art on the writing and thought of Jacques Lacan, emphasizing the...  Read More >>

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Examines how women's experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness.  Read More >>

Offers new perspectives on two key figures of modernity: James Joyce and Jacques Derrida.  Read More >>

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Explores D. H. Lawrence's environmentalism and suggests new ways of reading his works in the Anthropocene.  Read More >>