Literary theory books

What does it mean to become a human being? This question was persistently repeated by Kierkegaard scholar Howard...  Read More >>

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This first volume of the collected writings of sociologist Leo Lowenthal contains his classic theoretical and historical...  Read More >>

"There is no way to write or read literature without emotions. Unlike what is implied by today's notion of a contemporary...  Read More >>

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

In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel...  Read More >>

Segal as well as Otto Rank's 1914 essay ""The Play in Hamlet.""  Read More >>

Selected Short Works by Klaus Mann makes available for the first time a number of pieces by the author of Mephisto...  Read More >>

This book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema while championing the literary critical practice...  Read More >>

Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade, including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth,...  Read More >>

Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates race as a defining element of American...  Read More >>

The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere....  Read More >>

White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations...  Read More >>

In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the...  Read More >>

This book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema while championing the literary critical practice...  Read More >>

In this introduction to the life and works of John Keats, originally published in 1981, William Walsh presents a...  Read More >>

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This collected wisdom was originally published in 1986. It contains pieces of commentary from as far back as the...  Read More >>

First published in 1938, this study explores the reception of the mythology of King Arthur by modern poets and playwrights....  Read More >>

Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films,...  Read More >>

This book seeks to change this; based on a rendition of Mikhail Bakhtin’s anthropological concept of polyphony applied...  Read More >>

Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films,...  Read More >>

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Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical...  Read More >>