Literary theory books

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Criticism offers an account of aesthetic criticism as a far more rigorous approach to art, literature,...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Criticism offers an account of aesthetic criticism as a far more rigorous approach to art, literature,...  Read More >>

Court decisions can neither be made nor drafted without references to other texts; citations are omnipresent in...  Read More >>

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Examines Baudelaire’s multifaceted use of natural, domestic, urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and prose...  Read More >>

This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new...  Read More >>

In times of global crisis and uncertainty, narrative literary works serve not only as sources of pleasure but also...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary study focuses on sonic poetry, an experimental artistic practice in the post-digital era....  Read More >>

Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Untersuchung von Mischungs- und Kontrastverhältnissen, durch die eine vermeintlich...  Read More >>

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Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

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