Literary theory books

How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?...  Read More >>

We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities....  Read More >>

Challenging the view of autofiction as a hybrid of autobiography and the novel, this book redefines it as a mode...  Read More >>

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Wynter’s Queer Revolution answers the question, What’s the point of teaching humanities in the interregnum? This...  Read More >>

The Romance of Real Life, a common title in nineteenth-century European and American fiction, identifies the basic...  Read More >>

This volume provides the first comprehensive account of the Italian reception of Eliot's masterpiece Four Quartets....  Read More >>

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First published in 1984, John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination is informed not only by an enthusiasm for Bunyan...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

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

Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures focuses on how spatiality has been used been used as a theme,...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

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

Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880-1940 examines shifting discourses on gender and sexuality across...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the representation of gay men in Egyptian cinema. It will be of...  Read More >>

Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880-1940 examines shifting discourses on gender and sexuality across...  Read More >>

By providing the first comprehensive study of the culturally and historically significant field of American gay...  Read More >>

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

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Fragmented Forms in African American Women’s Memoir examines fragment as formal praxis in autobiographical works...  Read More >>