Literary theory books

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively...  Read More >>

This book explores writers and artists from 20th-century Bengal as  Read More >>

Moving beyond the normative frames of terrorism and counter-terrorism, this book shows how world literatures from...  Read More >>

The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce’s Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the “Hades” episode. This volume...  Read More >>

Taking advantage of the broad applicability of notions of work and labor to human lives at every rung of Roman society,...  Read More >>

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Der Sammelband arbeitet mehr als zehn Jahre nach dem Tod der Dichterin die fortwährende Brisanz und Aktualität ihres...  Read More >>

Clear mirrors and scripture in English, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy....  Read More >>

Unpacking the popularity and metaphor of the multiverse in media and popular culture, this book explores how the...  Read More >>

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Providing an unprecedented exploration of key moments in queer literary history, Never By Itself Alone changes our...  Read More >>

In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention...  Read More >>

Unpacking the popularity and metaphor of the multiverse in media and popular culture, this book explores how the...  Read More >>

Why do people wear shirts with the Shakespeare quote “to be or not be?” or a portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek?...  Read More >>

The studies in this volume shed light on phenomena of competition from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages from...  Read More >>

Theology and the Mythic Sensibility will be attractive to anyone with an interest in stories and how they reveal...  Read More >>

Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis expands postcolonial precarity studies by addressing the current...  Read More >>

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Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines...  Read More >>

Ambiguity, increasingly studied in interdisciplinary research, lacks focus on its role in storytelling. This volume...  Read More >>

""Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents...  Read More >>

The Poetry Circuit examines the creative impact that public reading had on twentieth-century poetry. Peter Howarth...  Read More >>

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines...  Read More >>