Literary theory books

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

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy...  Read More >>

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

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This volume traces the evolution of serial forms from antiquity to the digital age, exploring their role in literature,...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings offers a psychoanalytical perspective on The Lord of the Rings, informed...  Read More >>

Moving beyond a cisgender, heteronormative framework, this book investigates Shakespeare’s queer legacy on Emily...  Read More >>

Capital, like capital, is a self-begetting production machine whose fungibility as a form is one and the same with...  Read More >>

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The Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics provides a clear and comprehensible understanding of the changing...  Read More >>

Explores how digital epitexts surrounding contemporary novels by Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Lacey,...  Read More >>

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This volume is a groundbreaking reorientation of India's cultural history that explores postcolonial cultural memory...  Read More >>

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A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about...  Read More >>

Since ancient times, land has had a defining influence on human culture, from the political and the social to the...  Read More >>

This timely monograph explores the critical, yet often overlooked, role of genre in non-traditional authorship attribution...  Read More >>

This book reveals the essential elements of critical and creative thinking that drive achievement in academic, professional,...  Read More >>

This book considers the significance of the filial relationship to the graphic narrative oeuvres of Art Spiegelman...  Read More >>

Weaving together personal narrative and cultural history, Snack examines how this seemingly trivial food category...  Read More >>

Brochures, billboards, websites, menus, and memes. We are immersed every day in the imagery of carefully-curated...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped...  Read More >>

Humor and the novel both belong, in important ways, to the nineteenth century. It is in the nineteenth-century that...  Read More >>