Literary theory books

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This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir and Sartre's most influential writings...  Read More >>

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In today’s world, fiction seems to be present everywhere, not only in traditional media such as books or movies,...  Read More >>

This study takes a material object as its starting point: small-scale models of bombed out cities. This study considers...  Read More >>

How do readers experience literary narrative? Through its interdisciplinary approach,this study combines close readings...  Read More >>

Initiating a transgeneric, intermedial and interdisciplinary approach to narrative unreliability, this volume is...  Read More >>

This volume brings together fifteen papers which address key issues in the field of Hellenistic studies. By reassessing...  Read More >>

Modernist texts, particularly the works of Virginia Woolf, turn towards vision to explore new ways of seeing and...  Read More >>

The articles in this collective volume aim to highlight the various reverberations of aestheticism on literature...  Read More >>

The series Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Studies in German Literature) presents outstanding analyses of German-speaking...  Read More >>

This book seeks to work out literature’s active role in shaping visual culture, thus demonstrating its relevance...  Read More >>

This manuscript looks at a selection of narratives published in Spain during the transition to democracy and compares...  Read More >>

Few works can claim to form the foundation stones of one entire academic discipline, let alone two, but Thucydides's...  Read More >>

One of the most significant works of political philosophy, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (1859) defines and defends...  Read More >>

Goldstone examines the causes of revolutions and uprisings between 1500 and 1800 in both Europe and Asia. Many thinkers...  Read More >>

Written in 1887, when Nietzsche was at the height of his powers as a philosopher and writer, On the Genealogy of...  Read More >>

Gordon W. Allport’s 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice not only helped mold the ways in which psychologists investigate...  Read More >>

In this provocative 1949 work, Ryle proposes that what we think of as the “mind” is little more than an illusion....  Read More >>

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Durkheim’s 1897 work is a powerful evidence-based study of why people take their own lives.  Read More >>

Frantz Fanon’s 1961 masterpiece is both a powerful analysis of the psychological effects of colonization and a rallying...  Read More >>

The impact of William James’s 1890 The Principles of Psychology is such that he is commonly known as the father...  Read More >>