Literary theory books

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

Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical...  Read More >>

""This book offers a new system of speculative theory and philosophy that proposes the manner in which Black people...  Read More >>

The book introduces the concept of anarchetype, as opposed to the archetype, in order to reevaluate literary genres...  Read More >>

Un'abbazia isolata. Una serie di omicidi. Un libro proibito. E una domanda che attraversa i secoli: cos'è la verità?...  Read More >>

This book will help educators to define videogames in a literary context, gives an overview of their history, and...  Read More >>

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Em um país fictício que se orgulha de suas instituições, o poder deixa de agir pela força e passa a operar pela...  Read More >>

Este ensayo propone una lectura mitocrítica de la poesía de la autora coahuilense, atendiendo a la presencia y transformación...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a rich constellation of scholarly voices that interrogate language not merely as a medium...  Read More >>

This book is the first sustained analysis of travel narratives from one of the most important US writers of the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

Animal Lives through Five Centuries of Art and Science confronts a deep paradox: humanity's greatest achievements...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, A. E. Housman brings together significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman...  Read More >>

In A Shaping Joy (originally published in 1971), Cleanth Brooks writes about modern literature and the criticism...  Read More >>

In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass’s development and assesses...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1983, begins with an analysis of the patterns of Graham Greene’s mind. It explores...  Read More >>