Literary theory books

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The standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the prototypical “absurdist” thinker. Such a reading...  Read More >>

A fictional manual to help disrupt today’s all-too-real energy and climate emergencies The Energy Emergency Repair...  Read More >>

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

Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida’s thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s...  Read More >>

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

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

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

The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards...  Read More >>

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

"The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals reveals how much of what has been called ""climate fiction"" casts...  Read More >>

This reader presents the latest and most cutting-edge work in Sinophone studies, bringing together both senior and...  Read More >>

The anthology, which is the result of an interdisciplinary conference in Munich, looks at medieval lyric poetry...  Read More >>

An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that...  Read More >>

Tabish Khair makes the provocative argument that literature is an agnostic mode of thinking about language, reality,...  Read More >>

Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games investigates the potential of queer conceptions of time...  Read More >>

This reader presents the latest and most cutting-edge work in Sinophone studies, bringing together both senior and...  Read More >>

This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukacs through the...  Read More >>

Re-reading intra-war modernist poetics through war poetry  Read More >>

The first book-length treatment of Joyce and hospitality  Read More >>

Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time reveals the fundamental, constitutive role of the temporal dimensions of...  Read More >>

Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practices  Read More >>

Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection,...  Read More >>

Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection,...  Read More >>