Literary theory books

Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary techniques to make interventions into the real social...  Read More >>

Through an exploration of speculative pasts and futures, practices of dissent and mourning, and everyday inhabitation...  Read More >>

Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary techniques to make interventions into the real social...  Read More >>

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First published in 1983, Dean Swift is the concluding book in a series of three volumes providing a detailed exploration...  Read More >>

First published in 1967, Dr Swift is the second of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the events...  Read More >>

First published in 1962, Mr Swift and his Contemporaries, is the first of three volumes providing a detailed exploration...  Read More >>

This book is an exploration of the viability of applying the post structuralist theory of intertextuality to early...  Read More >>

Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the “stone phenomenon” in Chinese...  Read More >>

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This fascinating 1998 book examines how the poets of classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and...  Read More >>

This book introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism, offers new readings...  Read More >>

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Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not. Memoir matters, and there’s...  Read More >>

Rey Chow rearticulates the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a...  Read More >>

Rey Chow rearticulates the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a...  Read More >>

First published between 1962 and 1983, this three volume set is an extensive and detailed biography of Swift's life,...  Read More >>

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of...  Read More >>

Apres Violence et Verite (2013) ou Sagesse et Resistance (2018), ces deux volumes s'attachent a une nouvelle...  Read More >>

Überblick zu zentralen Ansätzen der Linguistic-Landscape-Forschung mit einem Bezug zur deutschen Sprache. Thematisierung...  Read More >>

"Was ist �berhaupt ein Gl�cksritter? Was ist ein Abenteurer oder eine Abenteurerin? Und wie erz�hlt man deren Geschichten?...  Read More >>

By interrogating the terms and concepts most central to cultural change, Future Theory interrogates how theory can...  Read More >>

Is poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt...  Read More >>

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring...  Read More >>