Literary theory books

It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986...  Read More >>

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This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

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This book is for an international audience concerned about environmental crisis. It shows how writers across the...  Read More >>

Developing an innovative model for climate change mitigation and adaptation, this book translates feminist theory...  Read More >>

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This Element provides an analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World examines some of the most pressing issues about identity and so-called...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World examines some of the most pressing issues about identity and so-called...  Read More >>

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Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Establishes Elizabeth von Arnim as an important figure in literary modernism.  Read More >>

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Addresses the changing geographical and historical background to Conrad's life as a source for his developing artistic...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>