Literary theory books

This book initiates a conversation about blue ecocriticism: critical, ethical, cultural, and political positions...  Read More >>

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Mushroom Clouds: Ecocritical Approaches to Militarization and the Environment in East Asia examines the growing...  Read More >>

The essays in this collection use a variety of methods and approaches to explore the global history of audience...  Read More >>

These essays not only explore the various transformations that happen when texts migrate from one cultural and linguistic...  Read More >>

This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within...  Read More >>

This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wide range of philosophical and literary texts and examples, On Lingering and Literature exemplifies...  Read More >>

"This book ""shows, through an examination of French poetry, how it is [a] dialogue in response to a constant questioning,...  Read More >>

"In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiser Panorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering an illusion of three-dimensional...  Read More >>

"""Examines how loneliness-in an age of social networks, biopolitical capital, the rankings knowledge economy, and...  Read More >>

This unique introduction emphasizes how ancient Scandinavians understood and made use of their mythological stories....  Read More >>

This book explores the ways in which translation deals with sexual and textual undecidability, adopting an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

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This book provides 18 lively commentaries on Lacan’s Seminar VIII, Transference (1960-61) that explore its theoretical...  Read More >>

First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins...  Read More >>

First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins...  Read More >>

First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins...  Read More >>

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The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful...  Read More >>

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This 14-volume set contains titles originally published between 1926 and 1992. An eclectic mix, this collection...  Read More >>

This book seeks to breathe new life into Friedrich Schlegel's idea of 'poetic critique, ' but also asks about its...  Read More >>

In order to deeply understand a work of literature or film, one requires the emotional and spiritual experience...  Read More >>