Literary theory books

No Place Like Home examines the home through the lens of female writers and thinkers across history, in order to...  Read More >>

Das Handbuch geht von einem weiten Begriff der Kulturwissenschaften aus und untersucht die Rolle der Pflanzen in...  Read More >>

Encompassing hegemonic, nonhegemonic, and pidgin languages, this compilation explores the state of literary translation...  Read More >>

Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God Explained: Mythology Across Civilizations, Archetypes, Ritual, Symbolism, and...  Read More >>

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians,...  Read More >>

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Drawing from five decades of experience, this exploration reveals teaching as not merely a career, but a vocation....  Read More >>

Encompassing hegemonic, nonhegemonic, and pidgin languages, this compilation explores the state of literary translation...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, Dante the Maker examines the great Italian poet’s creative processes and presents a wider...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, Novel and Society in Elizabethan England presents a whole range of English fiction of the...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1973, this is foremost a study of Dryden as a writer, but, the author maintains, his ideas...  Read More >>

The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively ‘modern’...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1971, this book elucidates Beckett’s work in the light of his concern with literary form....  Read More >>

Drawing from five decades of experience, this exploration reveals teaching as not merely a career, but a vocation....  Read More >>

Is a play meant to be read or performed? A provocative essay arguing that the true power of drama lies in its literary...  Read More >>

This book rethinks the relation between philosophy and literature as an agonic relation, not privileging either...  Read More >>

Explores modernism's complex relationship with contemporary theatre  Read More >>

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The series ""QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE"" (Sources and Research in the History...  Read More >>

Examines the importance of expression to the production of meaning in the philosophy of Bergson.  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

Brings together Maggie Humm's pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures....  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

Was zeichnet preisgekröntes Storytelling in Videospielen aus? Dieses essential analysiert 50 ausgezeichnete Titel...  Read More >>