Literary theory books

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The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy,...  Read More >>

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

Large-scale data analysis of cultural representation in Dutch literary fiction  Read More >>

This third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter looking at intermediality, and how the study of intertextuality...  Read More >>

This third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter looking at intermediality, and how the study of intertextuality...  Read More >>

This book examines South Africa’s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that...  Read More >>

This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that...  Read More >>

Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way...  Read More >>

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Someone Told Me combines associative self-portraiture, lyric essay, and literary criticism. Core themes include...  Read More >>

This book investigates the origins of figurative language in literary discourse within a cognitive framework. It...  Read More >>

Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: ‘biofiction,’ ‘bioimagination,’ and ‘biodiscourse’ to talk about intersections...  Read More >>

From here to utopia. New directions in political theory  Read More >>

In this title, originally published in 1950, the author has set out to give a description and a critical assessment...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1955 and reissued in 1973, is a study of the flourishing of an ancient literary...  Read More >>

First published in 1988, this comparative study of utopian fiction demonstrates the continuity of a well-established,...  Read More >>

How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? How do bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about...  Read More >>

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How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? How do bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about...  Read More >>

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures (awarded by the Modern...  Read More >>

Class Acts looks at two often neglected aspects of Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public lectures and his...  Read More >>

Ada Smailbegović shows how twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers have intermingled scientific methodologies...  Read More >>