Literary theory books

If ‘event’ is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their...  Read More >>

To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary...  Read More >>

This book introduces the reader to the ways in which happiness has been explored in philosophy and literature for...  Read More >>

This volume offers crucial insights into the making of Telugu literature and its critical tradition across a century....  Read More >>

Interdiscipline is not just a defence of literature and the humanities; it offers a clear and inspiring pathway...  Read More >>

This edited collection contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analysing the relationship of literary...  Read More >>

This book systematically analyses representations of Black masculinity in gay men’s pornography. This book unpacks...  Read More >>

This book examines how Asian American authors since 1945 have deployed the stereotype of Asian American inscrutability...  Read More >>

This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicization of the Indian middle class in the context of...  Read More >>

This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who through their writings...  Read More >>

Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural...  Read More >>

In the first monograph on W.S. Merwin to appear since his death in 2019, Feng Dong focuses on the dialectical movement...  Read More >>

Focusing on the period from 1909 to 1915, this incisive portrait of Eliot as a budding writer is as much a study...  Read More >>

Untersucht werden Demenz-Romane u. -Erzählungen von A. Geiger, H. Königsdorf, T. Jens, R. Quadflieg, M. Suter, U....  Read More >>

Raymond Chandler, Romantic Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Chivalry responds to the general consensus that...  Read More >>

Drawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal...  Read More >>

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

This book considers metaphor as a communicative phenomenon in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, Theater and World is a detailed exploration of Shakespeare’s representation of history...  Read More >>

Im Anschluss an Adorno, Bachtin und Greimas’ Strukturale Semiotik analysiert Zima die Einwirkung sozialer Entwicklungen...  Read More >>

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social and mystical objects....  Read More >>

Part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series, this volume brings together English translation of major writings...  Read More >>

Based on the study of the often-blurry lines between the literary and non-literary with regard to an application...  Read More >>

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Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary...  Read More >>