Literary theory books

Landmark Essays on Tropes and Figures offers a thorough overview of the most influential essays on rhetorical tropes...  Read More >>

Winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) 2017 Edited Collection Prize This book...  Read More >>

Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are...  Read More >>

Friedman's 1968 paper changed the course of economic theory, rejecting existing theory and outlined an effective...  Read More >>

In The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss elevates a simple gift from the status of innocent object to something that has...  Read More >>

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Our Ecological Footprint presents a powerful model for measuring humanity's impact on the Earth to reduce the harm...  Read More >>

Carson's 1962 work Silent Spring was one of the first books ever to highlight environmentalist issues. Focusing...  Read More >>

Lewis's 1952 Mere Christianity-originally printed in pamphlet form during World War II-documents a complex journey...  Read More >>

One of the most reprinted articles in the history of the Harvard Business Review, ""The Core Competence of the Corporation""...  Read More >>

The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and...  Read More >>

In his best selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, economist Thomas Piketty argues that capitalism has...  Read More >>

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The Selfish Gene is that rarest of things: an outstanding work of scholarship that has seeped into popular culture....  Read More >>

Because the potential returns appear to be greater in poorer countries than in the developed world, modern economic...  Read More >>

Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called...  Read More >>

Modernity at Large is an edited collection of the essays that made Appadurai an influential figure in cultural anthropology....  Read More >>

Slavery had been accepted in Western culture for centuries. So why did a movement suddenly rise up in the industrial...  Read More >>

Sigmund Freud, ""the father of psychoanalysis,"" was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1856. He studied medicine at the...  Read More >>

A classic postcolonial studies text, Spivak's 1988 essay argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized...  Read More >>

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After Hegemony has had a huge impact on policy debates over the last three decades. Hegemony means the social, cultural,...  Read More >>

One of the most important strategy manuals ever published, Chinese general Sun Tzu's The Art of War has also been...  Read More >>

""Black Skin, White Masks offers a radical analysis of the psychological effects of colonization on the colonized....  Read More >>

Morgenthau's classic text, published in 1948, not only introduced the concept of political realism, but also established...  Read More >>