Literary theory books

Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting...  Read More >>

New essays on early Greek natural philosopher Parmenides, who is perhaps the originator of metaphysics.  Read More >>

Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting...  Read More >>

Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive study of biography, to summarize the standard forms as well as a range of peripheral...  Read More >>

Explores a full spectrum of Gothic works broadly understood as queer, from the eighteenth century to today  Read More >>

Reassesses Scottish textual practice in the context of the natural and post-natural landscapes  Read More >>

A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland...  Read More >>

""Umstände erzählen"" untersucht das Verhältnis kasuistischer und poetischer Verfahren in der Frühen Neuzeit. Anhand...  Read More >>

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This volume focuses on narrative engagement within the theory of storyworld possible selves, a framework for the...  Read More >>

First published in 1974, Fact in Fiction states that literature does not ‘reflect’ or ‘arise from’ society but is...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, Virginia Woolf is an original critical study of where the author considers Virginia Woolf’s...  Read More >>

The nineteenth century saw the growth of several major magazines devoted to the reviewing of contemporary literature....  Read More >>

First published in 1949, New Light on Pope is a collection of new poems by one of the greatest poets; new facts...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, English Literature in History examines how an economic theory of society was developed...  Read More >>

This book examines both the productive and counterproductive dimensions of the increasing orientation towards digital...  Read More >>

Offers new perspectives on two key figures of modernity: James Joyce and Jacques Derrida.  Read More >>

Explores the role of violence in relation to Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte's literary productions, receptions...  Read More >>

Researching Stylistics: A Student Guide explores key topics in literary and non-literary stylistics, examining the...  Read More >>

The ideas of these authors, as well as Paul de Man’s and Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s analyses of subject-constitution,...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and...  Read More >>

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Comprised of leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural,...  Read More >>