Literary theory books

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The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>

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

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

""This book offers a new system of speculative theory and philosophy that proposes the manner in which Black people...  Read More >>

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This volume traces the evolution of serial forms from antiquity to the digital age, exploring their role in literature,...  Read More >>

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Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings offers a psychoanalytical perspective on The Lord of the Rings, informed...  Read More >>

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Moving beyond a cisgender, heteronormative framework, this book investigates Shakespeare’s queer legacy on Emily...  Read More >>

""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents...  Read More >>

This cross-cultural study explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through the...  Read More >>

A critical assessment by leading scholars on the relationship between music and the life’s work of Stanley Cavell....  Read More >>

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows...  Read More >>

Published after the fall of Communism, this is one of Derrida's most prophetic books. This Routledge Classics edition...  Read More >>