Literary theory books

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 >>

Translation Studies struggled with Derrida's radical questioning. This book reveals his hidden obsession with translation,...  Read More >>

This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood...  Read More >>

Dante’s Paradiso delivers an accessible reader’s guide to the third canticle of The Divine Comedy, while providing...  Read More >>

Translation Studies struggled with Derrida's radical questioning. This book reveals his hidden obsession with translation,...  Read More >>

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This cross-disciplinary study combines postcolonial, mountain, and tourism studies to explore how meaning about...  Read More >>

This study traces the editorial journey of Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy work from Poland to the world, focusing on...  Read More >>

American popular culture wields tremendous power as a cultural force both domestically and abroad but is rarely...  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 open access book sets out to investigate how contemporary African women writers are challenging traditional...  Read More >>

This book argues that metafiction should not be understood as a self-contained textual technique but as an active...  Read More >>

What does a single recurring image reveal about the hidden architecture of a novelist's entire body of work? Across...  Read More >>

Examines the development of Thomas Pynchon's foundational novel, V., bringing the author back into the frame of...  Read More >>

This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining...  Read More >>

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together...  Read More >>

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous, building on recent...  Read More >>

It is a collection of essays analysing works of contemporary fiction concerned with innovative models of the mind,...  Read More >>

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism....  Read More >>

An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that...  Read More >>

This book explores the diverse means by which Shakespeare’s poetry enriches his drama, illustrating how particular...  Read More >>

In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention...  Read More >>

Narratives of Injury redescribes the history of injury from the perspective of those most at risk, rather than medical...  Read More >>