Literary theory books

Thomas Ogden: A Contemporary Introduction is the first book to gather and analyse Ogden’s significant contributions...  Read More >>

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within...  Read More >>

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within...  Read More >>

Dante’s Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development...  Read More >>

Tells the story of the metronome and our strong reactions to its relentless tick.  Read More >>

Perhaps the most prolific and exacting reader of his generation, Garrett Stewart's first book of essays — on close...  Read More >>

This book explores the intricate and dynamic role of readers as witnesses, with a specific focus on Kurdish literature...  Read More >>

This collection of new essays devoted to Oscar Wilde's classic novel presents new critical work by prominent scholars...  Read More >>

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On Humour: An Essay by Luigi Pirandello is a masterful philosophical treatise by the Nobel Prize-winning Italian...  Read More >>

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to...  Read More >>

This Is Not A Book Of Comfort. This Is A Book Of Confrontation. Roses and Ashes is a dark philosophical collection...  Read More >>

A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The...  Read More >>

Writing the Mountains reconsiders the role of mountains in German language fiction from 1800 to the present and...  Read More >>

Argues that 18th-century British literary writers deployed melancholic feeling to draw a complex web of relations...  Read More >>

Examines the connection between auditory perception and the formation of subjectivity and identity in 20th-century...  Read More >>

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

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  Read More >>

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing...  Read More >>

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  Read More >>

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What happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important...  Read More >>

O que acontece quando tentamos guardar o inefável no bolso? Em O Valete de Quintana, a autora Laura Lucy Dias convida...  Read More >>

This study discloses an oblique canon of modernity in which comedy and gravitas shadow each other like wary twins,...  Read More >>

Erinnern stiftet Identität, sowohl für Einzelne als auch für Gruppen und Kulturen, denn es stellt über eine gemeinsam...  Read More >>