Literary theory books

Rene Descartes posed questions about the nature of knowledge and the nature of being that philosophers still debate...  Read More >>

Classical economics suggests that market economies are self-correcting in times of recession or depression, and...  Read More >>

This book examines the cognitive processes of narrative composition by introducing characteristics of complex narrative...  Read More >>

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The Future Life of Trauma discusses the intersections between psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies in the concept...  Read More >>

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2014.  Read More >>

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In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued...  Read More >>

Modern fantasy is the generic revival of the chivalric romance. The quest motif, adventures to other worlds, imaginary...  Read More >>

Placing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Piggott argues that the...  Read More >>

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This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly approaches by combining both praxis and theory in...  Read More >>

In this study, first published in 1983, Professor Smith makes the argument that although The Waste Land is analogous...  Read More >>

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This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T. S. Eliot’s writings of the 1930s...  Read More >>

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Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions redefines the critical picture of language as a system of signs...  Read More >>

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Anima and Africa applies Jung’s African journeys to literary texts, explores his interest in Haggard, and provides...  Read More >>

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