Literary theory books

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains—art included. In this major contribution to the study...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures refutes the Anglocentrism of much literary criticism of the global...  Read More >>

""Examines works by Sheila Heti, Chris Kraus, Salvador Plascencia, Percival Everett, Jonathan Foer, and Rachel Kushner...  Read More >>

Proposes that we can best understand literature's relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In...  Read More >>

This volume explores the historical, socio-political, transcultural, and intertextual connections between East Central...  Read More >>

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Darwin...  Read More >>

Proposes that we can best understand literature's relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In...  Read More >>

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows...  Read More >>

A cross-cultural study that explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through...  Read More >>

Critical posthumanism is a by now established theory paradigm that challenges us to rethink, unlearn and relearn...  Read More >>

This book interrogates the relationship between the material conditions of Woolf's writing practices and her work...  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 >>

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

Originally published in 1956, this study of Spenser’s poetry shows how the conceptions of his earlier work in visions...  Read More >>

The volume draws together literary scholars working across the fields of poetry and poetics, decadence, modernism,...  Read More >>

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

Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences...  Read More >>

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Woods and forests have long been seen as places of both beauty and danger, of both charm and threat. This volume...  Read More >>

Um 1800 wird die Nachahmung aus dem Zentrum der schönen Künste in deren Peripherie verbannt. Der theoretische Paradigmenwechsel...  Read More >>

The Creative Writing Compass presents a dynamic navigational instrument for creative writers, providing a method...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, Texts and Contexts identifies those classics of Roman literature which deserve to survive...  Read More >>

This book brings together essays that ask how one may chart more productive engagements with the methodological...  Read More >>

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