Literary theory books

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 >>

Based on the long-established American law and literature movement, the interdisciplinary research field of 'law...  Read More >>

Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s...  Read More >>

Examines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in works by two of the most influential Italian cultural...  Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

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

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media...  Read More >>

First Published in 1972, The Scholar-Critic argues that it's a mistake to consider literary criticism and literary...  Read More >>

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Through up-to-date essays by historians, biographers, and Shakespeare critics, this Companion offers, first, a systematic...  Read More >>

Explores Jacques Derrida's thoughts on what it means to 'remain'.  Read More >>

This book is set to revolutionise understanding of the relationship between Greek philosophy and Christianity in...  Read More >>

Examines real-world crisis narratives as represented in literary texts including nuclear disaster, the 'refugee...  Read More >>

Examines the life and works of Ernest Hemingway through the lens of posthumanism.  Read More >>

Examines the life-affirming and enchanting aspects of Woolf's and Rhys's modernism with feminist, affect and new...  Read More >>

This book explores significant literary and critical thinking achievements that have shaped our world. This slim...  Read More >>