Literary theory books

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism and postmodern textual analysis, this book reveals how contemporary...  Read More >>

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Takes aim at two myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is autonomous. The author argues that...  Read More >>

Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil’s Eclogues from the Middle Ages to our own century. She argues that Virgilian...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature. It is useful to academics and students...  Read More >>

How is a poem made? From what constellation of inner and outer worlds does it issue forth? T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic...  Read More >>

Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book...  Read More >>

This book explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new...  Read More >>

A short, staggering collection of essays from 'one of the most remarkable people the Booker Prize has ever celebrated'...  Read More >>

""The first in a two-volume anthology of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life,...  Read More >>

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire re-examines the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri...  Read More >>

""The first in a two-volume anthology of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life,...  Read More >>

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into...  Read More >>

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

Through a close reading of Shakespeare's works, Nigel Wood argues for the power of Shakespeare's dramatic language...  Read More >>

This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth...  Read More >>

This Element sheds a new light on the ubiquitous yet complex notion of mimesis. By systematically comparing the...  Read More >>

Anne Barton's final book uncovers woodland's persistent imaginative power in renaissance drama. Paying close attention...  Read More >>

A major cultural critic rethinks creativity and the cultural imaginary in a lively exploration of literature, cinema...  Read More >>