Literary theory books

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 >>

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 >>

This book on translation borrows from the introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. It will interest...  Read More >>

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

Since ancient times, land has had a defining influence on human culture, from the political and the social to the...  Read More >>

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Masculinities and Mental Health explores literary texts, images, and performances which engage with the under-explored...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on the East African coast, particularly Kenya, examining cross-generic texts—historical novels,...  Read More >>

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Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents...  Read More >>