Literary theory books

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

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Masculinities and Mental Health explores literary texts, images, and performances which engage with the under-explored...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a rich constellation of scholarly voices that interrogate language not merely as a medium...  Read More >>

This book is the first sustained analysis of travel narratives from one of the most important US writers of the...  Read More >>

Animal Lives through Five Centuries of Art and Science confronts a deep paradox: humanity's greatest achievements...  Read More >>

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, A. E. Housman brings together significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman...  Read More >>

In A Shaping Joy (originally published in 1971), Cleanth Brooks writes about modern literature and the criticism...  Read More >>

In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass’s development and assesses...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1983, begins with an analysis of the patterns of Graham Greene’s mind. It explores...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy’s achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known...  Read More >>

Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is now recognized as one of the major novels of the 20th Century, whose breadth...  Read More >>

When it was originally published in 1986, this book was the first full-length study of Farrell’s fiction. Ronald...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1982, this study examines Orton’s principal plays, but its main concern is to identify his...  Read More >>

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Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>