Literary theory books

Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvre.  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume asserts the ongoing and changing role of religion in Irish culture. Offering new perspectives...  Read More >>

By providing the first comprehensive study of the culturally and historically significant field of American gay...  Read More >>

This is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines the overlooked cross-pollination between Fin-de-siècle...  Read More >>

The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Nabokov’s self-translated poetry, examining texts from...  Read More >>

Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Explores and illuminates the impact of French theorist, writer, and critic Hélène Cixous on our understanding of...  Read More >>

This book will help educators to define videogames in a literary context, gives an overview of their history, and...  Read More >>

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

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

Weaving together personal narrative and cultural history, Snack examines how this seemingly trivial food category...  Read More >>

Brochures, billboards, websites, menus, and memes. We are immersed every day in the imagery of carefully-curated...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a rich constellation of scholarly voices that interrogate language not merely as a medium...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

This book is the first sustained analysis of travel narratives from one of the most important US writers of the...  Read More >>

Exploring the poetic fictions of prominent French, feminist writer Hélène Cixous, this open access book highlights...  Read More >>

Scholars, students and general readers of J. M. Coetzee's novels will find this book a fascinating guide to one...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, A. E. Housman brings together significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman...  Read More >>

First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book...  Read More >>

In A Shaping Joy (originally published in 1971), Cleanth Brooks writes about modern literature and the criticism...  Read More >>

Although 1660 to some extent marks a turning point, this comprehensive book (originally published in 1992) demonstrates...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, Texts and Contexts identifies those classics of Roman literature which deserve to survive...  Read More >>