Literary theory books

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

A writer-activist explores the hidden dynamics between planet, politics, and stories as literature bears witness...  Read More >>

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  Read More >>

Brings together Maggie Humm's pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures....  Read More >>

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In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  Read More >>

Reading David Foster Wallace's short stories through the lens of spatiality, this book examines segmentation, zones,...  Read More >>

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

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An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.   Henry James’s...  Read More >>

A Psychoanalysis Influenced by Dissidence, Decoloniality, and Feminism analyzes the intersection of psychoanalysis...  Read More >>

Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style....  Read More >>

Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states...  Read More >>

Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style....  Read More >>

A Psychoanalysis Influenced by Dissidence, Decoloniality, and Feminism analyzes the intersection of psychoanalysis...  Read More >>

This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining...  Read More >>

Examines the development of Thomas Pynchon's foundational novel, V., bringing the author back into the frame of...  Read More >>

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous, building on recent...  Read More >>

It is a collection of essays analysing works of contemporary fiction concerned with innovative models of the mind,...  Read More >>

This book on translation borrows from the introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. It will interest...  Read More >>

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Milton’s epic...  Read More >>