Literary theory books

Drawing from five decades of experience, this exploration reveals teaching as not merely a career, but a vocation....  Read More >>

Encompassing hegemonic, nonhegemonic, and pidgin languages, this compilation explores the state of literary translation...  Read More >>

Drawing from five decades of experience, this exploration reveals teaching as not merely a career, but a vocation....  Read More >>

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What does a single recurring image reveal about the hidden architecture of a novelist's entire body of work? Across...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, Landor as Critic examines Walter Savage Landor’s critical writings, showcasing his literary...  Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

A writer-activist explores the hidden dynamics between planet, politics, and stories as literature bears witness...  Read More >>

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  Read More >>

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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  Read More >>

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

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Step into the pioneering field of Afropean Biblical Studies. This book constructs a Nigerian/British women’s hermeneutic...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy...  Read More >>

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

L'articulation entre féminisme et littérature constitue aujourd'hui un champ central de réflexion dans les études...  Read More >>

A Psychoanalysis Influenced by Dissidence, Decoloniality, and Feminism analyzes the intersection of psychoanalysis...  Read More >>

Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style....  Read More >>

Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states...  Read More >>

Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style....  Read More >>

A Psychoanalysis Influenced by Dissidence, Decoloniality, and Feminism analyzes the intersection of psychoanalysis...  Read More >>

Explores how digital epitexts surrounding contemporary novels by Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Lacey,...  Read More >>