Literary theory books

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays offers the first full-length critical study of Jackie Kay’s work. It brings together...  Read More >>

This volume provides a timely contribution to the ongoing conversation on the agency of matter in environmental...  Read More >>

This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

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

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This book attempts to provide a basic theory for all narratives, in order to shake narratology off its age-long...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, Landor as Critic examines Walter Savage Landor’s critical writings, showcasing his literary...  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 >>

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

A writer-activist explores the hidden dynamics between planet, politics, and stories as literature bears witness...  Read More >>

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  Read More >>

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

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

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In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  Read More >>

Reading David Foster Wallace's short stories through the lens of spatiality, this book examines segmentation, zones,...  Read More >>

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

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An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.   Henry James’s...  Read More >>

This book throws new light on the question of authorship in Neo- Latin literature and examines the the strategies...  Read More >>

A Psychoanalysis Influenced by Dissidence, Decoloniality, and Feminism analyzes the intersection of psychoanalysis...  Read More >>