Literary theory books

Drawing from five decades of experience, this exploration reveals teaching as not merely a career, but a vocation....  Read More >>

Is a play meant to be read or performed? A provocative essay arguing that the true power of drama lies in its literary...  Read More >>

This book rethinks the relation between philosophy and literature as an agonic relation, not privileging either...  Read More >>

Explores modernism's complex relationship with contemporary theatre  Read More >>

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The series ""QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE"" (Sources and Research in the History...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

Brings together Maggie Humm's pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures....  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

Was zeichnet preisgekröntes Storytelling in Videospielen aus? Dieses essential analysiert 50 ausgezeichnete Titel...  Read More >>

An ideal introduction to Igigaray's whole corpus, which includes previously untranslated texts.  Read More >>

Translation Studies struggled with Derrida's radical questioning. This book reveals his hidden obsession with translation,...  Read More >>

This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood...  Read More >>

Dante’s Paradiso delivers an accessible reader’s guide to the third canticle of The Divine Comedy, while providing...  Read More >>

Translation Studies struggled with Derrida's radical questioning. This book reveals his hidden obsession with translation,...  Read More >>

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This cross-disciplinary study combines postcolonial, mountain, and tourism studies to explore how meaning about...  Read More >>

This study traces the editorial journey of Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy work from Poland to the world, focusing on...  Read More >>

American popular culture wields tremendous power as a cultural force both domestically and abroad but is rarely...  Read More >>

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An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.   Henry James’s...  Read More >>

This open access book sets out to investigate how contemporary African women writers are challenging traditional...  Read More >>

This book argues that metafiction should not be understood as a self-contained textual technique but as an active...  Read More >>