Literary theory books

A comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee  Read More >>

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

Provides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation...  Read More >>

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The Misfortunes of Arthur, written by Thomas Hughes is one of the earliest printed plays from the English Renaissance...  Read More >>

Examines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in works by two of the most influential Italian cultural...  Read More >>

At the surface, fantastic storyworlds appear free of the constraints of reality - yet for all their limitless potential,...  Read More >>

Parler de frontières de la littérature aujourd'hui revient à examiner à la fois la dynamique des contraintes formelles...  Read More >>

The main question confronted in this book is why James Joyce’s characters so often repeat the words of other characters....  Read More >>

An examination of the way in which small presses expanded authorship to include publishing practices as forms of...  Read More >>

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The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

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The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

This compilation brings together seminal essays by Almut Suerbaum with critical responses from colleagues, providing...  Read More >>

The book series (Re)visionen aims at a revision of the literary canon analyzing Italian and Romance literary and...  Read More >>

In this illuminating book, Clint Burnham invites the reader to consider humanity's relationship with the world around...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures....  Read More >>

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across...  Read More >>

This book explores the complexities of literature in conflict zones and how storytelling conveys traumatic memories...  Read More >>

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Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and...  Read More >>

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