Literary theory books

A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs...  Read More >>

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

This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

What happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important...  Read More >>

The book explores Williams’s cross-cultural landscape poetics by situating his oscillations between the landscape...  Read More >>

Henrik Ibsen’s plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. By reading...  Read More >>

At a time when visual media otherwise seem to have captured the imagination, Modern Fiction, Disability, and the...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and Narrative analyzes narrative in literary fiction, film, and autobiography, through different...  Read More >>

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential...  Read More >>

Understanding Sublimation in Freudian Theory and Modernist Writing resituates sublimation as an unfinished Freudian...  Read More >>

Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis that will serve as a reference work on cultural...  Read More >>

Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have...  Read More >>

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study...  Read More >>

Reading Words into Worlds asks: how can reading a novel make us feel as if we are living in a world? The book argues...  Read More >>

In the desolate heart of Veridian, where ancient grudges cast long shadows and secrets fester like unhealed wounds,...  Read More >>

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De Renan au Sillon. Joseph Malègue: horizons intellectuels de l'oeuvre permet de cerner les horizons intellectuels...  Read More >>

Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality?...  Read More >>

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut provides timely cultural criticism of both fiction...  Read More >>

line-height: 115%;"">This book reframes trauma as not just a response to violence but a structural condition of...  Read More >>

Angela Carter Translator and Translated situates the British writer Angela Carter within a global framework by documenting...  Read More >>

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Published after the fall of Communism, this is one of Derrida's most prophetic books. This Routledge Classics edition...  Read More >>

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