Literary theory books

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

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

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  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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Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and '70s reconfigured...  Read More >>

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Investigates how experimental uses of fictionality on digital platforms transform public storytelling, playing with...  Read More >>

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

""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 >>