Literary theory books

In this book, Victor MacGill uses the science of systems theory to explore the hidden meanings of fairy tales and...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, Thomas Gray is a comprehensive biography of Thomas Gray together with a selection of his...  Read More >>

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century (1984) discusses 6 authors whom Dr Green saw as the most interesting...  Read More >>

Engages with the life and ideas of the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu.  Read More >>

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Unfolds the central importance of broken hospitality in the director's work.  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to Feminisms in Canadian Literature introduces readers to the shifting historical contexts,...  Read More >>

Informed by semiotic theory, this comparative literary study reads the Gospel of John with Callirhoe to observe...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, Writers and Politics: A Partisan Review Reader explores the intersection of literature...  Read More >>

Im reformierten Gericht des späten Russischen Reichs konnten spannende literarisierte Erzählungen mehr bewirken...  Read More >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

This volume puts stories and theory about prison in conversation, following five metaphors through mass incarceration:...  Read More >>

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The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Warum bleiben manche Bücher bestehen, während andere verschwinden? Und was sagt das über die Gesellschaft aus, in...  Read More >>

This volume puts stories and theory about prison in conversation, following five metaphors through mass incarceration:...  Read More >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty...  Read More >>

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Hay heridas que no aparecen en los mapas. Heridas que no entienden de fronteras, idiomas ni culturas. Heridas que...  Read More >>

Treue – ausgerechnet mit diesem Begriff aus dem Inventar bürgerlicher Ehen und populärer Romanzen wird im Jahrhundert...  Read More >>

Et si tout ce que l'on vous a appris était à repenser ? À travers RIEN NE VA !!!, Dimitri Dong livre une oeuvre...  Read More >>

The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce’s Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the “Hades” episode. This volume...  Read More >>

In Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and...  Read More >>