Literary theory books

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

In essays on film, literature, capitalism, and the university, this book illuminates and deepens the understanding...  Read More >>

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an ""impure"" genre by challenging...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

From Rachel Carson and Julia Kristeva to Rebecca Solnit and Nandi Chinna, the writers and artists featured here...  Read More >>

Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non-fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental...  Read More >>

La IA más avanzada del mundo recibe a un buscador sin brújula: alguien que quiere ser buena persona y desarrollar...  Read More >>

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Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Untersuchung von Mischungs- und Kontrastverhältnissen, durch die eine vermeintlich...  Read More >>

You've read the book. You've hidden the cover. And you've recommended it to three people anyway. Dark Romance Explained...  Read More >>

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

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Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Investigates how experimental uses of fictionality on digital platforms transform public storytelling, playing with...  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 >>

Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

""This book offers a new system of speculative theory and philosophy that proposes the manner in which Black people...  Read More >>

Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical...  Read More >>