Literary theory books

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

Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non-fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

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 >>

This edited volume explores the representation of human-wildlife conflict in Indian literary texts, and offers a...  Read More >>

This book provides an important exploration of empathetic practices and approaches in and to creative writing –...  Read More >>

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Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states...  Read More >>

""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>