Literary theory books

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In this book, originally published in 1974, Cecily Mackworth writes about four outstanding French poets who came...  Read More >>

This book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist...  Read More >>

How have global commodities such as coffee, oil and lithium shaped literary texts, movements and genres? And how...  Read More >>

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Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting...  Read More >>

This Element explores the landscape of anglophone trade bookselling in India, aiming to identify some key factors...  Read More >>

In this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie,...  Read More >>

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature...  Read More >>

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Why do people wear shirts with the Shakespeare quote “to be or not be?” or a portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek?...  Read More >>

This volume offers a concise yet comprehensive machine-generated literature review of the multifaceted landscape...  Read More >>

This book defines nature writing as the creative practice of tracing the bodily and sensory enjoyment of nature—in...  Read More >>

Based on the long-established American law and literature movement, the interdisciplinary research field of 'law...  Read More >>

Examines how women's experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness.  Read More >>

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Explores Virginia Woolf as a transnational figure, her composite legacy and her impact in various cultural and political...  Read More >>

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An examination of the way in which small presses expanded authorship to include publishing practices as forms of...  Read More >>

Offers a unique look at the charged relationships between contemporary fiction and self-help culture. It explores...  Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin's groundbreaking...  Read More >>