Literary theory books

Deviant Space: Abjection, Failure, and Appropriation as Architectural Practice frames architecture as a fragile...  Read More >>

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who...  Read More >>

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Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction is the first sustained critical analysis of the representation...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive...  Read More >>

For more than two hundred years, Frankenstein has refused to die. It survives every generation, every cultural shift,...  Read More >>

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), the philosopher of pessimism, shocked even his contemporaries with his uncompromising...  Read More >>

Reiseliteratur erfährt im digitalen Zeitalter eine neue gesellschaftliche Relevanz, gibt es doch eine Vielzahl an...  Read More >>

The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during...  Read More >>

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The first full-length study of gender performance in East and Southeast Asian Shakespeare productions, this book...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences...  Read More >>

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

First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book...  Read More >>

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

Although 1660 to some extent marks a turning point, this comprehensive book (originally published in 1992) demonstrates...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, Texts and Contexts identifies those classics of Roman literature which deserve to survive...  Read More >>

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

First published in 1972, Goethe presents a biography looking at one of the few great Europeans to be universally...  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 >>

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

Originally published in 1956, this study of Spenser’s poetry shows how the conceptions of his earlier work in visions...  Read More >>

First published in 1989, Living Space in Fact and Fiction explores the house both in the ‘real’ world of the architect...  Read More >>

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