Literary theory books

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved...  Read More >>

Comparing Lawrence’s texts to various major and minor contemporary novels, journal articles, political pamphlets...  Read More >>

This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired...  Read More >>

This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and...  Read More >>

Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. This book presents a dedicated study of Bama’s work as a writer...  Read More >>

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing...  Read More >>

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Compellingly written and drawing on examples from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and...  Read More >>

What makes us pensive, feel pleasure and pain at the same time? What are we touched by in (humorous) instances of...  Read More >>

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

This book explores what, if anything, defines women’s writing in Italy’s long 1970s. Through a Deleuzean lens, it...  Read More >>

Parmenides & Translation: Figures of Motion, Figures of Being activates translation in multiple ways to explore...  Read More >>

From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played...  Read More >>

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Exploring the rise of open scholarship in the digital era and its transformational impact on how knowledge is created,...  Read More >>

This book takes up a number of Charles Sanders Peirce’s undeveloped semiotic concepts and highlights their theoretical...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive study available of key postmodern British fiction and its legacy in contemporary British...  Read More >>

Despite unprecedented opportunities to publish content in accessible formats, most books remain inaccessible to...  Read More >>

""Explores a crucial - yet largely neglected - aspect of media thinking, focusing particularly on the 'mediality'...  Read More >>

Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish writers in Europe and the Americas to examine the intersection of Kabbalah,...  Read More >>

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The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between aesthetic innovation in poetry and resistance to political and cultural domination...  Read More >>