Literary theory books

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores the representation of human-wildlife conflict in Indian literary texts, and offers a...  Read More >>

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First Published in 1972, The Scholar-Critic argues that it's a mistake to consider literary criticism and literary...  Read More >>

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The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

In this illuminating book, Clint Burnham invites the reader to consider humanity's relationship with the world around...  Read More >>

This collection of essays builds on recent scholarship on German philosophies of nature (Naturphilosophie) to argue...  Read More >>

An exciting topological foray into Romantic textuality, Fantastic Shapes shows how poetic form participates in a...  Read More >>

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""This book offers a new system of speculative theory and philosophy that proposes the manner in which Black people...  Read More >>

This volume traces the evolution of serial forms from antiquity to the digital age, exploring their role in literature,...  Read More >>

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

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 >>

The book introduces the concept of anarchetype, as opposed to the archetype, in order to reevaluate literary genres...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings offers a psychoanalytical perspective on The Lord of the Rings, informed...  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 >>