Literary theory books

Through in-depth case studies, the book examines how intermedial art practices involving moving images can convey...  Read More >>

A fascinating study into the world of translation and Shakespeare from the award-winning translator Daniel Hahn...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the...  Read More >>

An intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates The poems of Our Prediction...  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 >>

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

Einem Überblick über Literaturgeschichte und Gattungspoetik von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart folgen Kapitel zu...  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 >>

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

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

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

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  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 >>

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

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  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 >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>