Literary theory books

Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy....  Read More >>

Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming...  Read More >>

A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative...  Read More >>

Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance...  Read More >>

Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others...  Read More >>

Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake,...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban...  Read More >>

Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions...  Read More >>

Focusing on piracy in the seventeenth century, filibustering in the nineteenth century, intracolonial migrations...  Read More >>

This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature...  Read More >>

Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered,...  Read More >>

Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting...  Read More >>

Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp...  Read More >>

Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships...  Read More >>

Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current...  Read More >>

The sister of King Arthur goes by many names: sorceress, kingmaker, death-wielder, mother, lover, goddess. The Myth...  Read More >>

Pointing the way toward a revitalized future for the study of literature, Reconstruction in Literary Studies draws...  Read More >>

Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays...  Read More >>

Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana critically examines selected works of writers, from the sixth century to...  Read More >>

Examining a wide range of works, from Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, Representing the Modern Animal in...  Read More >>

Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American...  Read More >>

This volume explores the ways in which the complicated revolution in British newspapers, the New Journalism, influenced...  Read More >>

This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound's work, drawing on new archival,...  Read More >>

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