Literary theory books

Theorizes literature and art produced through experiences of migration, detention, and exile  Read More >>

Here Cohen conceptualizes and develops a compelling, innovative theory of genre that promotes a systematic study...  Read More >>

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Explores the afterlives of one Romantic poem – a poem meant to be sung – across time, cultures, media, and contexts,...  Read More >>

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Focusing on one of Murphy’s central innovations – his experimentation with theatre and everyday space – the book...  Read More >>

This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the work of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, with a particular...  Read More >>

Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of...  Read More >>

This book takes the ground-breaking work of Lee Edelman in queer theory and for the first time demonstrates its...  Read More >>

This title is a thorough introduction to ethical literary criticism, defined as a critical methodology to interpret...  Read More >>

This book puts a creative new reading of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and literary genre theory...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of Vyankatesh Madgulkar’s work by analysing selections from his major...  Read More >>

We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming...  Read More >>

Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of...  Read More >>

This accessible introduction to postcolonial stylistics looks at the shared aims of stylistics and postcolonial...  Read More >>

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A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore provides a wide-ranging survey of the oral traditions of...  Read More >>

This accessible introduction to postcolonial stylistics looks at the shared aims of stylistics and postcolonial...  Read More >>

Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures examines the place of classical music in early 20th century Japanese...  Read More >>

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A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine...  Read More >>

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The Materiality of Narrative Dynamics sits at the intersection of narrative theory, media studies, and rhetoric....  Read More >>