Literary theory books

Texting the Nation analyzes rhetorical and grammatical patterns of agency in the Declaration's text and three-part...  Read More >>

Beginning with the first concisely concerted assessment in English of the premisses and practice of Realism as viewed...  Read More >>

How do twenty-first-century Black satirists rewrite American ideas of race? This book plunges into the New Black...  Read More >>

The Self on Trial is an inquiry into the self and its pathological behaviors. The author observes 20th-century fiction...  Read More >>

The Self on Trial is an inquiry into the self and its pathological behaviors. The author observes 20th-century fiction...  Read More >>

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A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud’s anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works...  Read More >>

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and...  Read More >>

A Guide to Academic Writing: How to Tame Your Essay presents a holistic approach to writing in academia. The book...  Read More >>

A smart, funny, loving defence and celebration of romantic fiction! For the romance fans and romance-curious readers...  Read More >>

This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new...  Read More >>

Close reading is an essential skill that literature students develop across the full length of their studies. This...  Read More >>

Это не просто очередная ламентация по поводу «измов» и канонов. Книга исследует взаимодействие литературы с этикой:...  Read More >>

A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud’s anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works...  Read More >>

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and...  Read More >>

A Guide to Academic Writing: How to Tame Your Essay presents a holistic approach to writing in academia. The book...  Read More >>

Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth.  Read More >>

Provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of literary criticism from antiquity to the present Spanning...  Read More >>

Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth.  Read More >>

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

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

Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s...  Read More >>

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 >>