Literary theory books

First published in 1971, this work examines the tradition of the epic and the many forms in which it has presented...  Read More >>

First published in 1972, this work pursues the question ‘what is comedy?’ In doing so, the book demonstrates the...  Read More >>

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This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-Century authors of all...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-Century authors of all...  Read More >>

Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren't really sure what they mean?...  Read More >>

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Affirmations of body, flesh and matter pervade current theology and inevitably echo with the doctrine of the incarnation....  Read More >>

This set of 37 volumes is a revival of the original Critical Idiom series. First published between 1969 and 1979,...  Read More >>

This volume is about literary and cultural circulation, exploring the topic both in the form of case studies, analysing...  Read More >>

In the wake of the Darwin Anniversary celebrations in 2009, this volume reaches beyond the Darwinian legacy and...  Read More >>

Analysis of the mermaid in Japanese and English fairy tales through the framework of pleasure.  Read More >>

This book discusses literary texts from English and French Canada, the US, Spanish America, the Caribbean, and Brazil....  Read More >>

This volume offers new perspectives on dementia from the fields of philosophy, medical humanities, literary studies...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-Century authors of all...  Read More >>

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This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir and Sartre's most influential writings...  Read More >>

The role of the third surveyor often lacks clarity even sometimes to those in the industry. The Role of the Third...  Read More >>

This study provides an interdisciplinary examination of contemporary American writing using the example of New York...  Read More >>

Meat Markets articulates the emergent 'nonhuman thought' developed across literatures of the long nineteenth century...  Read More >>

The articles in this collective volume aim to highlight the various reverberations of aestheticism on literature...  Read More >>

In today’s world, fiction seems to be present everywhere, not only in traditional media such as books or movies,...  Read More >>