Literary theory books

The Breadwinner: A Thoughtful Review of Modern Roles, Identity, and Family DynamicsWhat happens when the roles we've...  Read More >>

What do you call a woman who is effective? Not good. Not obedient. Not successful within the categories already...  Read More >>

What does a single recurring image reveal about the hidden architecture of a novelist's entire body of work? Across...  Read More >>

Publius - Análises & Referências reúne o conjunto crítico que sustenta e expande o universo construído em Publius:...  Read More >>

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

This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and...  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 >>

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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 >>

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

This open access book sets out to investigate how contemporary African women writers are challenging traditional...  Read More >>

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Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology examines five female-authored novelizations of The Tempest,...  Read More >>

During the 21st century, the collective hero has emerged as the defining archetype in media, reflecting shifts in...  Read More >>

The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi....  Read More >>

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Through in-depth case studies, the book examines how intermedial art practices involving moving images can convey...  Read More >>

Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book...  Read More >>