Literary theory books

Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the...  Read More >>

Testing the relationship between feminist psychoanalytic theory and feminist retellings of fairy tales and myths...  Read More >>

Combining biographical and textual methods of analysis with historically specific discussions of related cultural...  Read More >>

The next introduction in the Ideas in Profile series: a snappy but serious introduction to criticism.  Read More >>

As lyrical and precise as Fowles' novels, The Tree is a provocative meditation on the connection between the natural...  Read More >>

This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach’s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical...  Read More >>

This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest...  Read More >>

Combining close readings of literature and theory, Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction opens up new ways...  Read More >>

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""There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes.""--a civic...  Read More >>

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First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Since the late-1980s the rise of the Internet and the emergence of the Networked Society have led to a rapid and...  Read More >>

Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing...  Read More >>

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Since the late-1980s the rise of the Internet and the emergence of the Networked Society have led to a rapid and...  Read More >>

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This text covers the definition of metafiction, historiographic metafiction and the writer and critic. It includes...  Read More >>

The first collection to address the vexing issue of Nabokov’s moral stances, this book argues that he designed his...  Read More >>

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Serious Fiction explores the novels of J.M. Coetzee, in dialogue with key works of the European literary tradition...  Read More >>

This book brings together the research findings of contemporary feminist age studies scholars, shame theorists,...  Read More >>

This book is a compact study of Kafka’s inimitable literary style, animals, and ecological thought—his nonhuman...  Read More >>

Over thirty years, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida conversed across texts about the interrelation of philosophy,...  Read More >>