Literary theory books

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

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Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

Learning from Queer and Trans Studies introduces readers to key topics in queer and trans studies and employs a...  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 >>

A writer-activist explores the hidden dynamics between planet, politics, and stories as literature bears witness...  Read More >>

This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Auden’s earlier poetry and poetics. By dividing the poet’s...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch analysiert herausragende Plädoyers der Epoche und zeigt, wie Anwälte mithilfe narrativer Techniken und...  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 >>

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

Shakespeare’s Exiles addresses fundamental ethical, political, and anthropological questions by looking at two of...  Read More >>

This companion is an essential contribution to the study of historical materialism in general and the social history...  Read More >>