Literary theory books

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study...  Read More >>

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In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality?...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut provides timely cultural criticism of both fiction...  Read More >>

How does contemporary US-American literature reimagines narrative forms to confront humanity's impact in the Anthropocene?...  Read More >>

line-height: 115%;"">This book reframes trauma as not just a response to violence but a structural condition of...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

The book's chapters each work through a theoretical construct that has been applied to and derived from African...  Read More >>

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and...  Read More >>

Introduction to the Attribution of Literature describes the first unbiased and accessible authorship attribution...  Read More >>

Eliot’s career was influenced by concrete historical and biographical circumstances who played a decisive role as...  Read More >>

Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House brings...  Read More >>

""The Novel Experience makes a plea and offers a methodology for reclaiming and recentering the reading experience...  Read More >>

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This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy,...  Read More >>

This study is a comprehensive overview of the literature produced in Canada during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901)....  Read More >>

Thomas Ogden: A Contemporary Introduction is the first book to gather and analyse Ogden’s significant contributions...  Read More >>

Guohua Zhu unveils the last two decades of Chinese literary theory and research, offering a glimpse into the evolving...  Read More >>

""The Novel Experience makes a plea and offers a methodology for reclaiming and recentering the reading experience...  Read More >>

The point of departure for this volume is the work of the Austrian Brazilian critic Roberto Schwarz on literature...  Read More >>

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This study is a comprehensive overview of the literature produced in Canada during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901)....  Read More >>