Literary theory books

The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's...  Read More >>

First Published in 1972, The Scholar-Critic argues that it's a mistake to consider literary criticism and literary...  Read More >>

Offers an interdisciplinary consideration of myriad social, cultural, and aesthetic connections. Drawing on work...  Read More >>

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""Relic explores how a bit of bone, a scrap of rag, a chip of wood - the most prosaic of materials - have often...  Read More >>

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""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

""Castration desire theorizes an alternative form of masculinity in global literature that is less egocentric and...  Read More >>

""Analyses the rich global histories of 20th- and 21st-century politicized writing in order to provoke new debate...  Read More >>

Provides extensions and reconceptions of unnatural narratology, and intervenes in major debates in narratology,...  Read More >>

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Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to...  Read More >>

Serial killers are popular-culture icons, selling books, movies and podcasts in every country in the world. This...  Read More >>

Exploring the metamorphoses of the body as a crucial aspect of the Robinsonade’s ideologies in the eighteenth century...  Read More >>

A stirring and meaningful departure from atomized accounts of neurological difference, Narrating the Many Autisms...  Read More >>

This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics.  Read More >>

The primary purpose of 'Psychedelic Modernism: Literature and Film' is to trace the development of ideas and perspectives...  Read More >>

Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to...  Read More >>

This book looks at Neobaroque Latin American fiction, poetry, essay and performance from the 1970s to the early...  Read More >>

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. Spanning Merwin’s...  Read More >>

This collection of essays explores celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields’s experimentation with the essay genre...  Read More >>

Enacting a dialogue between medieval studies, feminist thought, and queer theory, Medieval Mobilities proposes that...  Read More >>

Dazu sind auch die in der Tradition der Avantgarden stehenden Projekte der generativen Codeliteratur zu zählen,...  Read More >>

Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore...  Read More >>

This is the first volume to reconstruct and examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional...  Read More >>