Literary theory books

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian...  Read More >>

Delany, Ursula LeGuin, Joanna Russ, and Brian Aldiss, this book provides answers to the question of how science...  Read More >>

Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment...  Read More >>

Speculative Architecture after Minoritarian Futurisms is a work of architectural theory which understands architecture...  Read More >>

This volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood...  Read More >>

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice,...  Read More >>

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 Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical and historical perspectives...  Read More >>

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 >>

Family and Artistic Relations in Polish Women’s Autobiographical Literature examines women’s autobiographical works...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women explores women’s speeches in selected plays by Shakespeare, highlighting women’s discerning...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and...  Read More >>

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