Literary theory books

These 13 newly commissioned chapters examine the impact of archival poetry collections on both literary scholarship...  Read More >>

This book places Marx’s writings in their historical context, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and intellectual...  Read More >>

Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of...  Read More >>

Provides a deeper understanding of the comforts of reading literature  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism....  Read More >>

Die Studie verfolgt die Entwicklung der neugermanistischen Editionsphilologie, beginnend bei den ersten komplexen...  Read More >>

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This book places Marx’s writings in their historical context, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and intellectual...  Read More >>

Ecofeminist Science Fiction explores the origins of human-caused environmental change in the twin oppressions of...  Read More >>

By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias...  Read More >>

Doris Lessing (1919–2013), a prolific contemporary author, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for...  Read More >>

The New Normal explores the relation between the subject and the state after the events of 9/11 that left the world...  Read More >>

This book argues that postcolonial realism is intimately connected to the specifically political in the sense that...  Read More >>

This collection of essays revises contemporary trauma theory, from Freudian/Caruthian and post-structuralist perspectives....  Read More >>

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Perspectives on Biopoetics in Literature and Theory  Read More >>

Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which...  Read More >>

The study has two objectives: to determine the general structure of irony and to show in detail how it is applied...  Read More >>

There are ghosts. At least, in Hamlet there are. This is an example of a fictional truth, of something true in a...  Read More >>

Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and...  Read More >>

Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and...  Read More >>

Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and...  Read More >>

Exposing how modernist and late-modernist writers tell the stories of their intimate relationships though life writing,...  Read More >>

Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts? And why do so many novels, plays, films, and television...  Read More >>

Stepping Off the Edge addresses the question of literary edges and endings in contemporary works of literature...  Read More >>