Literary theory books

Romanyshyn asks eight questions that uncover how Mary Shelley’s classic work Frankenstein haunts our world. Providing...  Read More >>

What is work? Why do we do it? Since time immemorial the answer to these questions, from both the left and the right,...  Read More >>

Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness provides a unique understanding of Rossetti’s identity as an artist...  Read More >>

This book presents a definition of literary postmodernism, using detective and science fictions as a frame. This...  Read More >>

By reading a series of early twentieth-century literary texts from modernists like Woolf, Eliot, Faulkner, and Stein...  Read More >>

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From the 14th until the 19th century the last novella of Boccaccio’s Decameron, also known as the Griselda story,...  Read More >>

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Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the...  Read More >>

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Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the...  Read More >>

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The book shows Chekhov as a writer with a synthetic ethical worldview on which his poetics are based. The book’s...  Read More >>

Translating 20th century Chinese literary theory and criticism is a difficult task that has been attempted by...  Read More >>

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The seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005....  Read More >>

This study interrogates the breakages that occur in peoples' lives...  Read More >>

In Beyond Return, Lucas Hollister examines the political orientations of fictions which ‘return’ to forms that have...  Read More >>

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This collective work describes the enunciative function of modern lyric poetry through the analysis of discursive,...  Read More >>