Literary theory books

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Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

First published in 1979, Inner Visions discussion the nature of contemporary magical thought – encompassing the...  Read More >>

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This book introduces scholars and students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. It focuses on representative...  Read More >>

Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and constitutive of what renders some works appealing and...  Read More >>

This collection of essays addresses the concept of ‘disaster’ through a variety of literary texts dating back to...  Read More >>

This book is targeted for clinicians, scientists, cultural theorists, and other scholars and students of trauma...  Read More >>

Aldous Huxley is one of the most well-known modernist intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century -...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce’s work with the mythic structure of the mandala, using his “collideorscape”...  Read More >>

Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century...  Read More >>

"This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the ""wordless novels"" of American woodcut artist and...  Read More >>

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This book examines the ways philosophy deploys literary means to advance its practice, particularly as a way of...  Read More >>

This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of Robert Greene's canon through...  Read More >>

This book engages with the critical decline of postmodernism and newer currents of thinking that have come to the...  Read More >>

The Politics of Form rejects claims that the legacy of high theory has been superseded by New Historicism, post-colonial...  Read More >>

This Companion considers anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as...  Read More >>

Jean-Gaspard Deburau analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Théâtre...  Read More >>

This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnical cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look,...  Read More >>

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This book explores postcolonial myths and histories within colonially structured narratives which persist and are...  Read More >>

Crossing the boundaries between literature, philosophy and theology, Shakespeare and the Grace of Words pioneers...  Read More >>