Literary theory books

This volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood...  Read More >>

The main question confronted in this book is why James Joyce’s characters so often repeat the words of other characters....  Read More >>

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The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

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

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures....  Read More >>

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

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Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across...  Read More >>

Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and...  Read More >>

What happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important...  Read More >>

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Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality?...  Read More >>

line-height: 115%;"">This book reframes trauma as not just a response to violence but a structural condition of...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

The book's chapters each work through a theoretical construct that has been applied to and derived from African...  Read More >>

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and...  Read More >>

Introduction to the Attribution of Literature describes the first unbiased and accessible authorship attribution...  Read More >>

Eliot’s career was influenced by concrete historical and biographical circumstances who played a decisive role as...  Read More >>

Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House brings...  Read More >>

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