Literary theory books

Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema uses health and psychological humanities to explore literary and...  Read More >>

New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to...  Read More >>

This book brings together essays that ask how one may chart more productive engagements with the methodological...  Read More >>

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study...  Read More >>

This book redefines the non-Western roots of world literature. A humanist imagination negotiated the struggles of...  Read More >>

Compellingly written and drawing on examples from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers a comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics,...  Read More >>

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action?...  Read More >>

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved...  Read More >>

This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics...  Read More >>

Comparing Lawrence’s texts to various major and minor contemporary novels, journal articles, political pamphlets...  Read More >>

This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired...  Read More >>

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive...  Read More >>

This book traces the journeys at the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin's (1929-2018) Hainish Cycle-across planets, across...  Read More >>

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Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut provides timely cultural criticism of both fiction...  Read More >>

Das Handbuch präsentiert einen Überblick über ein hoch aktuelles Forschungsfeld. Ausgangspunkt dabei ist die Literatur....  Read More >>

This book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist...  Read More >>

Puts major theories of narrative in dialogue with post-postmodernist theory to present a new pluralist narratological...  Read More >>

In a trans-bellum public career of over fifty years, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's...  Read More >>

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