Literary theory books

The Routledge Companion to Biofiction provides readers with the history, origins, and evolution of this popular...  Read More >>

This book studies gender, sexuality, and representation in The Mahabharata. Drawing on Feminist theory, Queer theory...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde’s major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism...  Read More >>

Working within a global frame, The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature considers postcolonial...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant...  Read More >>

Why do we read literature? Literature enables us to develop our judgment through observation and reflection. We...  Read More >>

Capital, like capital, is a self-begetting production machine whose fungibility as a form is one and the same with...  Read More >>

By tracing Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights...  Read More >>

100,000 Whys Book for Adults A Complete Reference Guide to Life's Most Fascinating QuestionsWhy does the shower...  Read More >>

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Why do we read literature? Literature enables us to develop our judgment through observation and reflection. We...  Read More >>

This volume is a groundbreaking reorientation of India's cultural history that explores postcolonial cultural memory...  Read More >>

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This book reveals the essential elements of critical and creative thinking that drive achievement in academic, professional,...  Read More >>

This book investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of modern Persian narratives.  Read More >>

This timely monograph explores the critical, yet often overlooked, role of genre in non-traditional authorship attribution...  Read More >>

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly...  Read More >>

This book is a sustained engagement with Mahadeva’s work that seeks to fill this lacuna. It includes translations...  Read More >>

Forgetting a war is not an accident. It is a political decision with an expiration date. The War That Was Erased...  Read More >>

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly...  Read More >>

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Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury née Campbell is one of the most influential women’s rights activists of the 19th...  Read More >>

How is literature like a game, and how are games like literature? Engagements with Literary Gaming examines the...  Read More >>