Literary theory books

This volume provides a critical analysis of Irish literature and the timely appraisal of contemporary developments...  Read More >>

Kim Godal's fiction emerges as a sustained inquiry into how sacred texts are read, repurposed, and weaponized within...  Read More >>

Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and art from classical ekphrasis...  Read More >>

Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy’s seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double...  Read More >>

New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to...  Read More >>

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

This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America’s greatest...  Read More >>

This book discusses Keats’s poetry with regard to post/non-anthropocentric, alternative subject positions and subject-object...  Read More >>

A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs...  Read More >>

This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

What happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important...  Read More >>

The book explores Williams’s cross-cultural landscape poetics by situating his oscillations between the landscape...  Read More >>

Henrik Ibsen’s plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. By reading...  Read More >>

At a time when visual media otherwise seem to have captured the imagination, Modern Fiction, Disability, and the...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and Narrative analyzes narrative in literary fiction, film, and autobiography, through different...  Read More >>

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential...  Read More >>

Understanding Sublimation in Freudian Theory and Modernist Writing resituates sublimation as an unfinished Freudian...  Read More >>

Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis that will serve as a reference work on cultural...  Read More >>

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

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study...  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 >>

In the desolate heart of Veridian, where ancient grudges cast long shadows and secrets fester like unhealed wounds,...  Read More >>

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