Literary theory books

""An investigation on how the development of conceptions of genius relate to struggles over enslavement and carceral...  Read More >>

Juli Zeh verbindet zwei öffentliche Rollen: Sie ist Schriftstellerin und Juristin; sie trägt maßgeblich zur deutschsprachigen...  Read More >>

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Thomas Wynn explores how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, the mode of closet drama:...  Read More >>

""An investigation on how the development of conceptions of genius relate to struggles over enslavement and carceral...  Read More >>

In this inventive and thoughtful study, renowned poet Jason Allen-Paisant provides a timely critical reappraisal...  Read More >>

In this book, Rojas explores comparatively the representations of deviant and criminal women in the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages...  Read More >>

Traces the rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety in Victorian literature, bringing uptake and genre ecology into...  Read More >>

Beyond Words argues that some works of fiction and poetry are especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding...  Read More >>

This book differentiates between and analyzes the Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist spirit in traditional Chinese aesthetics,...  Read More >>

Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge zeigen Keller als einzigartigen Erzähler, richten den Blick auf Texte aus...  Read More >>

This book uses a theory of cyborg semiotics to explore the similarities between language and cyborgs in their formation,...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

This volume presents new ways of approaching photographic discourse from a queer perspective, offering discussions...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary...  Read More >>

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It will be of interest to students and scholars in literary studies, discourse studies (discourse theory and discourse...  Read More >>

The Misfortunes of Arthur, written by Thomas Hughes is one of the earliest printed plays from the English Renaissance...  Read More >>

"First published in 1964, The Art of Discrimination is a study in the relation between critical theory and practice,...  Read More >>

Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation into the semiotics of literature and the arts. Julia Kristeva...  Read More >>

First published in 1954, Literature and Science discusses historically the relationship between science and literature...  Read More >>

Advocating for subversive literature's capacity to impose itself on cultural and psychological preconceptions that...  Read More >>

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