Literary theory books

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian...  Read More >>

Delany, Ursula LeGuin, Joanna Russ, and Brian Aldiss, this book provides answers to the question of how science...  Read More >>

Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment...  Read More >>

Speculative Architecture after Minoritarian Futurisms is a work of architectural theory which understands architecture...  Read More >>

This volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood...  Read More >>

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice,...  Read More >>

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The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the Antinomies of Plato's ""Parmenides"" shows how modern philosophers...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee  Read More >>

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

Provides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation...  Read More >>

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At the surface, fantastic storyworlds appear free of the constraints of reality - yet for all their limitless potential,...  Read More >>

Parler de frontières de la littérature aujourd'hui revient à examiner à la fois la dynamique des contraintes formelles...  Read More >>

First published in 1949, Kafka: His Mind and Art presents an extended analysis of the Kafka literature, with emphasis...  Read More >>

The main question confronted in this book is why James Joyce’s characters so often repeat the words of other characters....  Read More >>

This is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines the overlooked cross-pollination between Fin-de-siècle...  Read More >>

The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Nabokov’s self-translated poetry, examining texts from...  Read More >>

Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

An examination of the way in which small presses expanded authorship to include publishing practices as forms of...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical and historical perspectives...  Read More >>

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

Family and Artistic Relations in Polish Women’s Autobiographical Literature examines women’s autobiographical works...  Read More >>