Literary theory books

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 >>

The main question confronted in this book is why James Joyce’s characters so often repeat the words of other characters....  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 >>

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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 >>

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This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

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

This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America’s greatest...  Read More >>

Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema uses health and psychological humanities to explore literary and...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and art from classical ekphrasis...  Read More >>

This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 focuses on fifty-three silent...  Read More >>

This book discusses Keats’s poetry with regard to post/non-anthropocentric, alternative subject positions and subject-object...  Read More >>

Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy’s seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double...  Read More >>

A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs...  Read More >>

New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to...  Read More >>

This book brings together essays that ask how one may chart more productive engagements with the methodological...  Read More >>