Literary theory books

This book sets out to elucidate Conrad’s unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of...  Read More >>

A collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical...  Read More >>

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry, and some of the most...  Read More >>

Poetics of the Iconotext makes available the theories of the respected French text/image specialist Professor Liliane...  Read More >>

Cawsey draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function'...  Read More >>

Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Mucignat offers fresh readings of novels...  Read More >>

Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, this engaging study provides a critical reassessment of...  Read More >>

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The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France adds a new dimension to the field of early modern French literary...  Read More >>

A collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical...  Read More >>

Mahasweta Devi occupies a singular position in the history of modern Indian literature and world literature. This...  Read More >>

This volume examines the crisis of humanities narratives in the context of neoliberal capitalism and of the emergence...  Read More >>

Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton’s poetry on music with later musical adaptations of...  Read More >>

Posttraumatic Joy presents the major themes and ideas of Nietzsche’s corpus from a continental and psychoanalytic...  Read More >>

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Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America's leading Marxist critic'  Read More >>

A collection of essays that assesses Lacan's significant contribution to literary studies and the contribution,...  Read More >>

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This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s historical fiction published...  Read More >>

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A Space of Their Own explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of ‘place’...  Read More >>

This book focuses on queer people and their encounters with international law.  Read More >>

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