Literary theory books

Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have...  Read More >>

Reading Words into Worlds asks: how can reading a novel make us feel as if we are living in a world? The book argues...  Read More >>

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

This book offers a theory of ekphrasis—the literary description of an artwork—from the perspective of Visual Culture...  Read More >>

Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature: How to Tell a Story lays theoretical and methodological groundwork...  Read More >>

This book provides close historical, theological and cultural analyses of an important, but neglected, Late Antique...  Read More >>

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Este volumen ofrece una serie de 23 trabajos que analizan, desde la Semiótica, el espacio como categoría de construcción...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the philosophical dimensions of fairy tales from cultures all around the world.  Read More >>

This book introduces Chinese creative writing to the English-speaking world, considering various aspects of literary...  Read More >>

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Demonstrates the limits of narratology in understanding ancient texts and forges a new approach that investigates...  Read More >>

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these...  Read More >>

The institutionalization of a literary curriculum was part of the ideological enterprise of British rule in the...  Read More >>

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Recovering Police Legitimacy challenges conventional criminological, political, and public solutions to the problem...  Read More >>

The institutionalization of a literary curriculum was part of the ideological enterprise of British rule in the...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema uses health and psychological humanities to explore literary and...  Read More >>

Souvenirs of Cicero studies the narratives that the letter collections of Cicero unfold and looks closely at the...  Read More >>

Commonly used as a rallying cry for general approaches to literary studies, the imagination has until recently been...  Read More >>

Narratives are informed and shaped by values, and they transmit values themselves. The contributions to this volume...  Read More >>

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There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between ethics and the interpretation of literature,...  Read More >>