Literary theory books

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

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

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 >>

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

The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the Antinomies of Plato's ""Parmenides"" shows how modern philosophers...  Read More >>

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The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

In this illuminating book, Clint Burnham invites the reader to consider humanity's relationship with the world around...  Read More >>

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Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across...  Read More >>

This volume provides a critical analysis of Irish literature and the timely appraisal of contemporary developments...  Read More >>