Literary theory books

In times of global crisis and uncertainty, narrative literary works serve not only as sources of pleasure but also...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary study focuses on sonic poetry, an experimental artistic practice in the post-digital era....  Read More >>

Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Untersuchung von Mischungs- und Kontrastverhältnissen, durch die eine vermeintlich...  Read More >>

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

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Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

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Brings together researchers from across the world to explore the creation, effect, craft, and effect of a feeling...  Read More >>

This is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines the overlooked cross-pollination between Fin-de-siècle...  Read More >>

The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Nabokov’s self-translated poetry, examining texts from...  Read More >>

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Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

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This book will help educators to define videogames in a literary context, gives an overview of their history, and...  Read More >>

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Em um país fictício que se orgulha de suas instituições, o poder deixa de agir pela força e passa a operar pela...  Read More >>

The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the Antinomies of Plato's ""Parmenides"" shows how modern philosophers...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>