Literary theory books

This book traces the journeys at the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin's (1929-2018) Hainish Cycle-across planets, across...  Read More >>

From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played...  Read More >>

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut provides timely cultural criticism of both fiction...  Read More >>

The book traces the author’s intellectual history from his encounter with literature to his critique of the philosophy...  Read More >>

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Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

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

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

Early Modern expansionism and its aftermaths constitute a biopolitical laboratory, measuring social and individual...  Read More >>

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and...  Read More >>

Introduction to the Attribution of Literature describes the first unbiased and accessible authorship attribution...  Read More >>

Eliot’s career was influenced by concrete historical and biographical circumstances who played a decisive role as...  Read More >>

Puts major theories of narrative in dialogue with post-postmodernist theory to present a new pluralist narratological...  Read More >>

At the surface, fantastic storyworlds appear free of the constraints of reality - yet for all their limitless potential,...  Read More >>

This compilation brings together seminal essays by Almut Suerbaum with critical responses from colleagues, providing...  Read More >>

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How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and...  Read More >>

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Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House brings...  Read More >>

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A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose...  Read More >>

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The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the Antinomies of Plato's ""Parmenides"" shows how modern philosophers...  Read More >>

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

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