Literary theory books

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Nancy’s book offers nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense...  Read More >>

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In this first book in the new series Žižek’s Essays, Slavoj Žižek asks readers to disrupt fake notions of progress...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, A. E. Housman brings together significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman...  Read More >>

Die Bildlinguistik liefert zahlreiche Anregungen dazu, wie ein Close Reading dieser bimodalen Kunstformen auszusehen...  Read More >>

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

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Explores queer reading as a disruptive and generative practice  Read More >>

Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought  Read More >>

Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks's diverse critical work.  Read More >>

Looks at cultures of deterrence and 'war-ending' weapons and suggests their longer role within the development and...  Read More >>

The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration...  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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A major new account of Victorian poetry and its place in the field of literary studies. The Burden of Rhyme shows...  Read More >>

Bringing together scholarship on film, narrative identity, and the philosophy of meaning in life, this book is a...  Read More >>

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An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle, Edward Said and the power of narrative FROM THE WOMEN'S...  Read More >>

Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic...  Read More >>

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

The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how...  Read More >>

This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian...  Read More >>