Literary theory books

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

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

This book will help educators to define videogames in a literary context, gives an overview of their history, and...  Read More >>

Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across...  Read More >>

This book explores the complexities of literature in conflict zones and how storytelling conveys traumatic memories...  Read More >>

Building on the growing field of Afropean Studies, this interdisciplinary and intermedial collection of essays proposes...  Read More >>

It offers comprehensive methodology for the study of representations of language learning and literacy and applies...  Read More >>

Written in negotiation with the notion of energopolitics articulated by Dominic Boyer, Remapping Energopolitics...  Read More >>

Local/Global Shakespeare and Advertising examines the two-way relationship between Shakespeare and advertising –...  Read More >>

Literature and Computation presents the most relevantly innovative recent approaches to literary practice, theory,...  Read More >>

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Deviant Space: Abjection, Failure, and Appropriation as Architectural Practice frames architecture as a fragile...  Read More >>

A touchstone in the realm of narrative interpretation, the updated fifth edition of Narratology provides students...  Read More >>

For more than two hundred years, Frankenstein has refused to die. It survives every generation, every cultural shift,...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Aggressiveness argues that Jackson's experience reveals philosophical truths that society tries...  Read More >>

Reiseliteratur erfährt im digitalen Zeitalter eine neue gesellschaftliche Relevanz, gibt es doch eine Vielzahl an...  Read More >>

The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during...  Read More >>

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The first full-length study of gender performance in East and Southeast Asian Shakespeare productions, this book...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

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How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and...  Read More >>