Literary theory books

How does contemporary US-American literature reimagines narrative forms to confront humanity's impact in the Anthropocene?...  Read More >>

line-height: 115%;"">This book reframes trauma as not just a response to violence but a structural condition of...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

Das Handbuch präsentiert einen Überblick über ein hoch aktuelles Forschungsfeld. Ausgangspunkt dabei ist die Literatur....  Read More >>

The book's chapters each work through a theoretical construct that has been applied to and derived from African...  Read More >>

Published after the fall of Communism, this is one of Derrida's most prophetic books. This Routledge Classics edition...  Read More >>

Basic Writing in the 21st Century is a comprehensive, cutting-edge survey of basic writing, developmental writing,...  Read More >>

Published after the fall of Communism, this is one of Derrida's most prophetic books. This Routledge Classics edition...  Read More >>

A practical and essential resource for instructors of undergraduate and graduate creative writing courses, this...  Read More >>

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This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy,...  Read More >>

This study is a comprehensive overview of the literature produced in Canada during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901)....  Read More >>

Thomas Ogden: A Contemporary Introduction is the first book to gather and analyse Ogden’s significant contributions...  Read More >>

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within...  Read More >>

Urban Informality and Narrative Form brings together literary analysis and spatial planning theory in an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The point of departure for this volume is the work of the Austrian Brazilian critic Roberto Schwarz on literature...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the...  Read More >>

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within...  Read More >>

Dante’s Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development...  Read More >>

Urban Informality and Narrative Form brings together literary analysis and spatial planning theory in an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Willa Cather's novels do not behave like other novels. Indeed, her art is famously uncategorizable. She is not much...  Read More >>

Tells the story of the metronome and our strong reactions to its relentless tick.  Read More >>

Perhaps the most prolific and exacting reader of his generation, Garrett Stewart's first book of essays — on close...  Read More >>

This book explores the intricate and dynamic role of readers as witnesses, with a specific focus on Kurdish literature...  Read More >>