Literary theory books

Moving beyond a cisgender, heteronormative framework, this book investigates Shakespeare’s queer legacy on Emily...  Read More >>

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

The Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics provides a clear and comprehensible understanding of the changing...  Read More >>

Explores how digital epitexts surrounding contemporary novels by Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Lacey,...  Read More >>

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

A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about...  Read More >>

Since ancient times, land has had a defining influence on human culture, from the political and the social to the...  Read More >>

The book covers Polish literature from Romanticism to the present day to thoroughly rethink the Polish literary...  Read More >>

Weaving together personal narrative and cultural history, Snack examines how this seemingly trivial food category...  Read More >>

Brochures, billboards, websites, menus, and memes. We are immersed every day in the imagery of carefully-curated...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped...  Read More >>

Humor and the novel both belong, in important ways, to the nineteenth century. It is in the nineteenth-century that...  Read More >>

Published after the fall of Communism, this is one of Derrida's most prophetic books. This Routledge Classics edition...  Read More >>

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Published after the fall of Communism, this is one of Derrida's most prophetic books. This Routledge Classics edition...  Read More >>

Reading the Racial Encounter engages constructions of race through the analysis of scenes of meeting or encounter...  Read More >>

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian...  Read More >>

It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial...  Read More >>

Dieter Forte, dieser Auffassung sind nicht nur zahlreiche Kritikerinnen und Kritiker, gehört zu den bedeutendsten...  Read More >>

Urban Informality and Narrative Form brings together literary analysis and spatial planning theory in an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

A bold, dialectic engagement with Fredric Jameson's thought Fredric Jameson (19342024) is widely regarded as the...  Read More >>

This book is a compelling exploration of Ernest Hemingway's unique brand of primitivism, which was rooted in realism...  Read More >>

Urban Informality and Narrative Form brings together literary analysis and spatial planning theory in an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

A bold, dialectic engagement with Fredric Jameson's thought Fredric Jameson (19342024) is widely regarded as the...  Read More >>