Literary theory books

A reader may be in"" a text as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought--both possessing...  Read More >>

As a classic of the French Enlightenment, L'Homme Machine has in the past been of equal interest to students of...  Read More >>

What exactly is the fantastic? In the twentieth-century world, our notions of what is impossible are assaulted every...  Read More >>

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Volume 5 of the Princeton Oriental Texts. Originally published in 1939. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...  Read More >>

Confrontations brings, together in one volume six essays by the distinguished critic Rene Wellek. Five have been...  Read More >>

A collection of some of Pearce's best-known essays on historical criticism in which he suggests a way of going beyond...  Read More >>

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The fifteen essays in this volume explore the extraordinary range and diversity of the autobiographical mode in...  Read More >>

In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary...  Read More >>

This is the first translation of a classic work (Bahth fi nnsh' at 'ilm al ta' rikh 'inda l-'Arab) by the eminent...  Read More >>

Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding,...  Read More >>

The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by...  Read More >>

The Joy and Excitement of a New Baby!Khahari Discovers the Joy of Family is a wholesome story about a family eagerly...  Read More >>

Are you tired of living the same life day after day with no progression? Are you feeling stagnate in life and can't...  Read More >>

Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare?  Read More >>

This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first...  Read More >>

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

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In his fourth book of essays, acclaimed cultural critic Arthur Krystal surveys the world of letters in its academic,...  Read More >>

From a modernist/postmodernist perspective, this title addresses questions of literary and cultural nationalism....  Read More >>

Timothy Morton explores the foundations of the ecological crisis to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and...  Read More >>