Literary theory books

Schulenberg continues the thought-provoking argument he developed in his previous two monographs by advancing the...  Read More >>

Only a highly comparative study of medieval literature can help us to comprehend how much fundamental ideas and...  Read More >>

This book investigates the origins of figurative language in literary discourse within a cognitive framework. It...  Read More >>

By adopting a historical perspective on Western reading philosophies and a geographical perspective on literature’s...  Read More >>

This book explores how transnational fiction can intervene in discourse surrounding the ‘war on terror’ to advocate...  Read More >>

While speculation has always been crucial to biography, it has often been neglected, denied or misunderstood. This...  Read More >>

A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, this book supplies an original conceptualization of...  Read More >>

Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface, this book presents and examines the...  Read More >>

This book argues that certain works by Michael Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, Penelope Lively, Peter Ackroyd, and J.G....  Read More >>

Trans(in)fusion is a highly original book that tries to radicalize our ways of ‘critical thinking’ across disciplines....  Read More >>

This book explores how Romantic-era England conceptualized its relation to its constituent parts and the larger...  Read More >>

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Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in...  Read More >>

Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: ‘biofiction,’ ‘bioimagination,’ and ‘biodiscourse’ to talk about intersections...  Read More >>

If ‘event’ is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their...  Read More >>

In The New Midlife Self-Writing, Wittman treats recent self-writing by Rachel Cusk, Roxane Gay, Sarah Manguso, and...  Read More >>

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social and mystical objects....  Read More >>

The volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical...  Read More >>

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new...  Read More >>

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"This book addresses a central question in literary studies: how can a case be made for the field's value without...  Read More >>

This volume traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from...  Read More >>

This book eclectically brings together a wide gamut of cognitive concepts and literary genres at the intersection...  Read More >>

In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Widsith, and the Waltharius as...  Read More >>