Literary theory books

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880-1940 examines shifting discourses on gender and sexuality across...  Read More >>

By providing the first comprehensive study of the culturally and historically significant field of American gay...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über rhetorische Strategien, in zentralen literarischen Streitigkeiten des 18....  Read More >>

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

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This Element provides an analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches,...  Read More >>

A history of human rights that places writers and their ideas at its center. At Amnesty International’s headquarters...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World examines some of the most pressing issues about identity and so-called...  Read More >>

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Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World examines some of the most pressing issues about identity and so-called...  Read More >>

This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new...  Read More >>

Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen...  Read More >>

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¿Es la ficción un discurso interpretativo de la realidad? ¿Produce la literatura un conocimiento válido para la...  Read More >>

An intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates The poems of Our Prediction...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking volume challenges conventional scholarship by illuminating a critical blind spot in modernist...  Read More >>

This dissertation is set within a postcolonial framework. It was first published at the University of Mouloud Mammeri,...  Read More >>

What made Mark Twain the voice of a restless, rapidly changing America? How did a Missouri mischief-maker spin tall...  Read More >>

Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and '70s reconfigured...  Read More >>

Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>