Literary theory books

This book argues that written lists signify at once as words, images, and things. As such, they call upon skills...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Criticism offers an account of aesthetic criticism as a far more rigorous approach to art, literature,...  Read More >>

El autor parte de la hipótesis de Heidegger de que la palabra es ""la casa del ser"" para explorar cómo, desde el...  Read More >>

This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

In essays on film, literature, capitalism, and the university, this book illuminates and deepens the understanding...  Read More >>

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an ""impure"" genre by challenging...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

From Rachel Carson and Julia Kristeva to Rebecca Solnit and Nandi Chinna, the writers and artists featured here...  Read More >>

Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non-fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental...  Read More >>

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Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Untersuchung von Mischungs- und Kontrastverhältnissen, durch die eine vermeintlich...  Read More >>

You've read the book. You've hidden the cover. And you've recommended it to three people anyway. Dark Romance Explained...  Read More >>

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

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Investigates how experimental uses of fictionality on digital platforms transform public storytelling, playing with...  Read More >>

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This book provides an important exploration of empathetic practices and approaches in and to creative writing –...  Read More >>