Literary theory books

Texting the Nation analyzes rhetorical and grammatical patterns of agency in the Declaration's text and three-part...  Read More >>

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Argues that 18th-century British literary writers deployed melancholic feeling to draw a complex web of relations...  Read More >>

Examines the connection between auditory perception and the formation of subjectivity and identity in 20th-century...  Read More >>

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  Read More >>

In this book, originally published in 1974, Cecily Mackworth writes about four outstanding French poets who came...  Read More >>

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing...  Read More >>

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  Read More >>

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and...  Read More >>

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The book covers Polish literature from Romanticism to the present day to thoroughly rethink the Polish literary...  Read More >>

Close reading is an essential skill that literature students develop across the full length of their studies. This...  Read More >>

A smart, funny, loving defence and celebration of romantic fiction! For the romance fans and romance-curious readers...  Read More >>

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and...  Read More >>

Provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of literary criticism from antiquity to the present Spanning...  Read More >>

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Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth.  Read More >>

This Element explores the landscape of anglophone trade bookselling in India, aiming to identify some key factors...  Read More >>

In this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature...  Read More >>

Why do people wear shirts with the Shakespeare quote “to be or not be?” or a portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek?...  Read More >>

This book defines nature writing as the creative practice of tracing the bodily and sensory enjoyment of nature—in...  Read More >>