Literary theory books

Unfolds the central importance of broken hospitality in the director's work.  Read More >>

Telepoetics explores how telephony has shaped and been shaped by literature.  Read More >>

Engages with the life and ideas of the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu.  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to Feminisms in Canadian Literature introduces readers to the shifting historical contexts,...  Read More >>

Informed by semiotic theory, this comparative literary study reads the Gospel of John with Callirhoe to observe...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, Writers and Politics: A Partisan Review Reader explores the intersection of literature...  Read More >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation,...  Read More >>

Studies Taylor Swift's lyrics in relation to the ""literary,"" expanding the critical discourse surrounding Swift...  Read More >>

In recent decades, digital scholarly editions have gained prominence, the shift from print to digital demands not...  Read More >>

It's difficult to name a question more contentious than the question of credentialing for academic librarians. This...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy...  Read More >>

This volume puts stories and theory about prison in conversation, following five metaphors through mass incarceration:...  Read More >>

As writing and language teachers, we recognize the difference immediately; an event has occurred, and a new subject...  Read More >>

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The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Warum bleiben manche Bücher bestehen, während andere verschwinden? Und was sagt das über die Gesellschaft aus, in...  Read More >>

This volume puts stories and theory about prison in conversation, following five metaphors through mass incarceration:...  Read More >>

This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism...  Read More >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty...  Read More >>

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Hay heridas que no aparecen en los mapas. Heridas que no entienden de fronteras, idiomas ni culturas. Heridas que...  Read More >>

Treue – ausgerechnet mit diesem Begriff aus dem Inventar bürgerlicher Ehen und populärer Romanzen wird im Jahrhundert...  Read More >>