Literary theory books

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

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

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

Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and '70s reconfigured...  Read More >>

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belongingargues that this negotiation takes place in and through...  Read More >>

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This book provides an important exploration of empathetic practices and approaches in and to creative writing –...  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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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 >>

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

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