Literary theory books

First published in 1990, Don Juan: Variations on a Theme explores the differing perceptions of this famous character...  Read More >>

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This Element explores the literary geographies of Balzac and Proust as exemplary of realist and post-realist traditions...  Read More >>

This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art – the naked body....  Read More >>

Grounded in the complex history of literature and psychoanalysis, this volume introduces and explains the challenges...  Read More >>

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The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence...  Read More >>

A rare in-depth look at Japan's wide world of adult comics and it's symbolism within Japanese popular culture.  Read More >>

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The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts...  Read More >>

Recognizing the determination of a canon as an ongoing process of discussion and debate, which helps us to better...  Read More >>

"This interdisciplinary volume discusses whether the increasing salience of the Anthropocene concept in the humanities...  Read More >>

Glocal Narratives of Resilience investigates contemporary approaches to resilience through the analyses of novels,...  Read More >>

This book builds on theories of Transmodernity by Rodríguez Magda, Dussel, Luyckx Ghisi and Ateljevic, inter alia....  Read More >>

Drawing on insights from literary theory and analytical philosophy, this book analyzes the intersection of law and...  Read More >>

In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the...  Read More >>

Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial...  Read More >>

This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome, fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth...  Read More >>

""" By applying the thought of both Lacan and Foucault, this study describes the formation of constructed utopian...  Read More >>

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Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes,...  Read More >>

This book offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different...  Read More >>

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Eran Dorfman proposes the theory that the double is a key to understanding human subjectivity, overcoming the limits...  Read More >>