Literary theory books

The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers a comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics,...  Read More >>

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action?...  Read More >>

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved...  Read More >>

This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics...  Read More >>

Comparing Lawrence’s texts to various major and minor contemporary novels, journal articles, political pamphlets...  Read More >>

This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired...  Read More >>

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing...  Read More >>

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of...  Read More >>

This book traces the journeys at the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin's (1929-2018) Hainish Cycle-across planets, across...  Read More >>

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The point of departure for this volume is the work of the Austrian Brazilian critic Roberto Schwarz on literature...  Read More >>

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut provides timely cultural criticism of both fiction...  Read More >>

Das Handbuch präsentiert einen Überblick über ein hoch aktuelles Forschungsfeld. Ausgangspunkt dabei ist die Literatur....  Read More >>

This book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist...  Read More >>

Puts major theories of narrative in dialogue with post-postmodernist theory to present a new pluralist narratological...  Read More >>

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

In a trans-bellum public career of over fifty years, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's...  Read More >>

The Jewish Vanguard examines a vibrant cultural moment when Jewish artists and thinkers propelled avant-garde innovation,...  Read More >>

This book throws new light on the question of authorship in Neo- Latin literature and examines the the strategies...  Read More >>

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