Literary theory books

This polyphonic, interdisciplinary project explores East-Central Europe as ""a state of mind""; it examines its...  Read More >>

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In spite of their differing rhetorics and cognitive strategies, sociology and literature are often concerned with...  Read More >>

A classic work that overturns conventional assessments of African literature, offering a unique contribution to...  Read More >>

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Ever since the nineteenth century, people have claimed that the prosperity enjoyed by the First World was the result...  Read More >>

Written around 397, Confessions is one of the most referenced works in the Western literary tradition. The initial...  Read More >>

Butler's 1990 work shook the foundations of feminist theory and changed the conversation about gender. While many...  Read More >>

Kantorowicz's 1957 study of 1,200 years of monarchy has had a profound affect on the way academics think about the...  Read More >>

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Structural Anthropology (1958) not only transformed the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement...  Read More >>

One of the most influential books on economics ever written, An Essay on the Principle of Population remains one...  Read More >>

The story of the crusades has been told and retold in Western histories-but invariable from Western perspectives....  Read More >>

MacLeod's 1987 work, ground-breaking for the way it combines field research with theory, follows the lives of two...  Read More >>

The Second Sex caused uproar when it appeared in 1949. Simone de Beauvoir sets out groundbreaking ideas on what...  Read More >>

Our Common Future, produced in 1987 by a United Nations commission, responded to a growing number of environmental...  Read More >>

Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944) analyzes the ways in which excessive government planning can erode...  Read More >>

Christopher Hill turned thinking about the English Civil Wars (1642-51) on its head with The World Turned Upside...  Read More >>

The bizarre story of Martin Guerre-a peasant who disappears from a small village in sixteenth-century France and...  Read More >>

More than a classic work on the history and philosophy of science, Kuhn's 1962 book is considered by many to be...  Read More >>

Based on 20 months of fieldwork among the Azande people of South Sudan, Evans-Pritchard's work became the founding...  Read More >>

Born in 1961, US anthropologist and activist David Graeber was weaned on leftist politics, and declared himself...  Read More >>

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An important Marxist work, Prison Notebooks (1948) argues that we must understand societies both in terms of their...  Read More >>