Literary theory books

"An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell...  Read More >>

In this groundbreaking and imaginative study, Dashiell Moore explores the inter-colonial other as a mirror image...  Read More >>

This book seeks to encourage critical thinking at suggesting ways in which notions of culture, neoliberalism, nationalism...  Read More >>

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Richard Klein tells the millennia-spanning history of the city of Arles, France, from the perspective of the limestone...  Read More >>

Richard Klein tells the millennia-spanning history of the city of Arles, France, from the perspective of the limestone...  Read More >>

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Full scholarly edition of the only complete poetic text from the fourth century BC, which bridges the classical...  Read More >>

The polysemous German word Geschlecht -- denoting gender, genre, kind, kinship, species, race, and somehow also...  Read More >>

"""Often overlooked, tucked into a drawer or stuffed into a case, the pencil is a tool whose simplicity belies its...  Read More >>

"""A blend of personal narrative and critical inquiry, Swimming Pool explores the swimming pool as a symbol of status,...  Read More >>

First published in 1982, The Truth of Poetry attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: What kind of truth...  Read More >>

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""Explores the surprising social, cultural, historical, and environmental significance of air conditioning and of...  Read More >>

""A philosophically grounded exploration of the hyperbolic realism of Pynchon and Bolaäno within the broader context...  Read More >>

Exploring the rise of open scholarship in the digital era and its transformational impact on how knowledge is created,...  Read More >>

""Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that...  Read More >>

""Discovers innovative methods for coming to terms with urgent questions about the ethics and value of the novel...  Read More >>

""Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish writers in Europe and the Americas to examine the intersection of...  Read More >>

""Explores the relationship between aesthetic innovation in poetry and resistance to political and cultural domination...  Read More >>

""This innovative study asks how genocide can be witnessed through imaginative literature and affect readers who...  Read More >>

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""The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept...  Read More >>

""Explores a crucial - yet largely neglected - aspect of media thinking, focusing particularly on the 'mediality'...  Read More >>

""Explores influential historical fictions about the Holocaust that deploy narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman...  Read More >>