Literary theory books

When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that...  Read More >>

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies brings to attention the post-theoretical discussions on the changing...  Read More >>

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This book addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially masculinity in some of its forms through an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Rechtsprechung steht unter dem Diktat der Urteilspflicht und muss Mehrdeutigkeit daher einhegen und urteilend auflösen....  Read More >>

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First published in 1939, the original blurb begins: We have learned much lately concerning theories of laughter,...  Read More >>

Ever since comedies were first performed, the definition of the term ‘comedy’ has been debated by both playwrights...  Read More >>

Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds...  Read More >>

"""Reconstructing literary practice across the last 75 years of carefully contextualized German history, this study...  Read More >>

Each chapter engages the question of what it means to be disabled in a specific place, exploring issues of movement,...  Read More >>

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This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions...  Read More >>

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation;...  Read More >>

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions...  Read More >>

Catching Time updates our theories of narrative time, providing the first book-length study of enactive time in...  Read More >>

Kleine Formen - von der Zeitungsanekdote bis zum Tweet - versprechen im Kontext der modernen Medienöffentlichkeit...  Read More >>

First published in 1986, Soviet Fiction since Stalin presents a comprehensive overview of the literature of the...  Read More >>

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Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries) proposes a multidisciplinary analysis...  Read More >>

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The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry is a critical study of the later work of Seamus Heaney.  Read More >>