Literary theory books

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

Einerseits geht es um präzise Erfassung von Einzelphänomenen wie Unzuverlässigkeit (Darstellung imaginärer Entitäten,...  Read More >>

Erinnern stiftet Identität, sowohl für Einzelne als auch für Gruppen und Kulturen, denn es stellt über eine gemeinsam...  Read More >>

Realism has been disparaged for over a hundred years as an outmoded form, and, more recently, as a pernicious illusion,...  Read More >>

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the...  Read More >>

Umberto Eco is popularly known for his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose. This was a quintessential postmodernist...  Read More >>

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

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

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

Provides a comprehensive overview of the essay, with a focus on current debates about the form.  Read More >>

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

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Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

Examines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in works by two of the most influential Italian cultural...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores the representation of human-wildlife conflict in Indian literary texts, and offers a...  Read More >>

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media...  Read More >>

First Published in 1972, The Scholar-Critic argues that it's a mistake to consider literary criticism and literary...  Read More >>

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