Literary theory books

""Redefines the thematic contents of world literature in feminist terms as well as rethinking feminist terms, analyses,...  Read More >>

The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature connects...  Read More >>

As one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, this book became a foundational...  Read More >>

Literature and Computation presents the most relevantly innovative recent approaches to literary practice, theory,...  Read More >>

Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing...  Read More >>

Depersonalization is a distressing symptom in which sufferers feel detached from their own selves and the world....  Read More >>

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics...  Read More >>

This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

Considering Conrad’s transcultural background, this volume investigates the essential features of his expatriate...  Read More >>

Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood is a collection of multidisciplinary scholarly essays...  Read More >>

Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir,...  Read More >>

Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia.  Read More >>

Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines...  Read More >>

Enric Valor is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This selection of his highly popular...  Read More >>

Literature, Education, and Society argues that we must defend our differences from those practical disciplines by...  Read More >>

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on...  Read More >>

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition to put a fresh, cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a new model of narrative, where different...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood,...  Read More >>

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing...  Read More >>

This is a book of meditative reading with an aim to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades...  Read More >>

By focusing on a selection of women working across all aspects of the book production process, this book demonstrates...  Read More >>