Literary theory books

In this book, Victor MacGill uses the science of systems theory to explore the hidden meanings of fairy tales and...  Read More >>

Establishes Elizabeth von Arnim as an important figure in literary modernism.  Read More >>

This groundbreaking volume challenges conventional scholarship by illuminating a critical blind spot in modernist...  Read More >>

Paranoid Knowledge reveals how Lacan’s theorisations of the sinthome, the universal condition of psychosis and the...  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to Feminisms in Canadian Literature introduces readers to the shifting historical contexts,...  Read More >>

Unfolds the central importance of broken hospitality in the director's work.  Read More >>

In this book, Victor MacGill uses the science of systems theory to explore the hidden meanings of fairy tales and...  Read More >>

Engages with the life and ideas of the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu.  Read More >>

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century (1984) discusses 6 authors whom Dr Green saw as the most interesting...  Read More >>

Informed by semiotic theory, this comparative literary study reads the Gospel of John with Callirhoe to observe...  Read More >>

Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and '70s reconfigured...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores the representation of human-wildlife conflict in Indian literary texts, and offers a...  Read More >>

Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

Explore Ambrose Bierce's supernatural horror stories, a collection that showcases his mastery of the genre and influence...  Read More >>

Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvre.  Read More >>

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This volume traces the evolution of serial forms from antiquity to the digital age, exploring their role in literature,...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings offers a psychoanalytical perspective on The Lord of the Rings, informed...  Read More >>

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

This book throws new light on the question of authorship in Neo- Latin literature and examines the the strategies...  Read More >>

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