Literary theory books

This interdisciplinary collection examines literature, philosophy, and political theory through twenty-five essays...  Read More >>

Written for literary and animal studies scholars, this book shows how animal illnesses influence our cultures and...  Read More >>

Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women’s Novels examines a genre of ethnic American women’s literature,...  Read More >>

This volume addresses Gaskell’s works, networks, contexts, and legacies. Contributors draw on ecocriticism, queer...  Read More >>

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Wynter’s Queer Revolution answers the question, What’s the point of teaching humanities in the interregnum? This...  Read More >>

Organizing Relation investigates how attachment theory can shift major conversations in literary criticism about...  Read More >>

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Via German and American case studies, analyzes uses of narrative and scripting to appeal to stakeholders in urban...  Read More >>

This collection of new essays devoted to Oscar Wilde's classic novel presents new critical work by prominent scholars...  Read More >>

Some stories don't end when the screen goes dark - they keep unfolding inside us. Hoppers is one of those stories....  Read More >>

Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880-1940 examines shifting discourses on gender and sexuality across...  Read More >>

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to...  Read More >>

Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880-1940 examines shifting discourses on gender and sexuality across...  Read More >>

This book ranges across historical periods to offer a comprehensive and much-needed critical prehistory of contemporary...  Read More >>

¿Cómo leer la propia alma a través de la ""piel"" del texto? En Text-First (o de la alfabetización del alma), André...  Read More >>

Como ler a própria alma através da pele do texto? Em Text First (ou da Alfabetização da Alma), André Boniatti apresenta...  Read More >>

Challenges prevailing accounts of the novel's rise to reveal how changing concepts of fictionality have shaped the...  Read More >>

This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to “All-in-Allness”....  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection shows how transformative the study of rhythm can be across the humanities...  Read More >>

The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary...  Read More >>

A one-of-a-kind overview of the lasting impact of mimetic theory and the extent of its interdisciplinary applications,...  Read More >>

Narrative Architecture(TM) is a discipline for understanding how meaning survives pressure. This book does not...  Read More >>

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A final work by one of our major critics, contemplating how acts of distant witnessing can continue in future generations....  Read More >>