Literary theory books

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Law and Literature presents an accessible new study of the many ways in which law and literature interact by providing...  Read More >>

Is literature of political use, and if yes, how might this use be defined? “Reading for Democracy” addresses this...  Read More >>

We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about...  Read More >>

What makes us pensive, feel pleasure and pain at the same time? What are we touched by in (humorous) instances of...  Read More >>

The aim of this Element is to forge new conceptual tools to give more ecological power to the human imagination....  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

This book explores what, if anything, defines women’s writing in Italy’s long 1970s. Through a Deleuzean lens, it...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Parmenides & Translation: Figures of Motion, Figures of Being activates translation in multiple ways to explore...  Read More >>

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This book takes up a number of Charles Sanders Peirce’s undeveloped semiotic concepts and highlights their theoretical...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive study available of key postmodern British fiction and its legacy in contemporary British...  Read More >>

Despite unprecedented opportunities to publish content in accessible formats, most books remain inaccessible to...  Read More >>

""Explores a crucial - yet largely neglected - aspect of media thinking, focusing particularly on the 'mediality'...  Read More >>

Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish writers in Europe and the Americas to examine the intersection of Kabbalah,...  Read More >>

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The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between aesthetic innovation in poetry and resistance to political and cultural domination...  Read More >>

Discovers innovative methods for coming to terms with urgent questions about the ethics and value of the novel in...  Read More >>

Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope...  Read More >>

Explores influential historical fictions about the Holocaust that deploy narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman...  Read More >>

A philosophically grounded exploration of the hyperbolic realism of Pynchon and Bolaño within the broader context...  Read More >>

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