Literary theory books

This book explains how and why our brains think in stories. Angus Fletcher, an expert in neuroscientific approaches...  Read More >>

This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance. Moore’s Common...  Read More >>

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Winner of the Literary Encyclopedia 2024 Book Prize, in the category of literatures originally written in English....  Read More >>

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This autotheoretical Element, written in the tense space between feminist and trans theory, argues that movement...  Read More >>

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Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism offers a fresh analysis of the nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>

Only a highly comparative study of medieval literature can help us to comprehend how much fundamental ideas and...  Read More >>

By adopting a historical perspective on Western reading philosophies and a geographical perspective on literature’s...  Read More >>

This book explores how Romantic-era England conceptualized its relation to its constituent parts and the larger...  Read More >>

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Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in...  Read More >>

Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: ‘biofiction,’ ‘bioimagination,’ and ‘biodiscourse’ to talk about intersections...  Read More >>

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new...  Read More >>

This book eclectically brings together a wide gamut of cognitive concepts and literary genres at the intersection...  Read More >>

This collection explores the consequences of accentism in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures,...  Read More >>

This book reflects on the ‘literary’ in literature. Whether oral expression, Nobel laureates, or the rupturing event,...  Read More >>

Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature,...  Read More >>

Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses to what extent transnational concepts of identity...  Read More >>

This volume presents a close-reading of instances of Shakespearean quotations, allusions, imagery, and rhetoric...  Read More >>

Winner of the Literary Encyclopedia 2024 Book Prize, in the category of literatures originally written in English....  Read More >>

Examines trans-Pacific poets and writers to suggest a different way of understanding Oceanic literature and its...  Read More >>

This volume by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances...  Read More >>