Literary theory books

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature...  Read More >>

Why do people wear shirts with the Shakespeare quote “to be or not be?” or a portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek?...  Read More >>

This volume offers a concise yet comprehensive machine-generated literature review of the multifaceted landscape...  Read More >>

This book defines nature writing as the creative practice of tracing the bodily and sensory enjoyment of nature—in...  Read More >>

Based on the long-established American law and literature movement, the interdisciplinary research field of 'law...  Read More >>

Provides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee  Read More >>

Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment...  Read More >>

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

Examines how women's experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness.  Read More >>

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Explores Virginia Woolf as a transnational figure, her composite legacy and her impact in various cultural and political...  Read More >>

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An examination of the way in which small presses expanded authorship to include publishing practices as forms of...  Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures....  Read More >>

This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective...  Read More >>

Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and...  Read More >>

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these...  Read More >>

This book documents the findings of a one-year research project engaging the children’s publishing sector for feedback...  Read More >>