Literary theory books

This volume puts stories and theory about prison in conversation, following five metaphors through mass incarceration:...  Read More >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  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 >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>