Literary theory books

A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The...  Read More >>

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This book ranges across historical periods to offer a comprehensive and much-needed critical prehistory of contemporary...  Read More >>

The whole project has deep connections with games and rules, partly via the notion of constraint in experimental...  Read More >>

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In this book, originally published in 1974, Cecily Mackworth writes about four outstanding French poets who came...  Read More >>

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  Read More >>

This book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist...  Read More >>

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Das von der Forschung vernachlässigte und kontrovers diskutierte späte Gedicht Hölderlins ist eine elegische Hymne,...  Read More >>

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This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice,...  Read More >>

Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting...  Read More >>

This Element explores the landscape of anglophone trade bookselling in India, aiming to identify some key factors...  Read More >>

In this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie,...  Read More >>

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This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice,...  Read More >>

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Major Russian...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary...  Read More >>

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