Literary theory books

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

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Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for...  Read More >>

This book engages with the life and works of Indira Goswami, the first Assamese woman writer to win the highest...  Read More >>

Der Sammelband widmet sich den Formationen und Diskursen, in denen das Subjekt in der Gegenwart Präsenz gewinnt....  Read More >>

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Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both...  Read More >>

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Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism explores inter-disciplinary connections across Cultural Anthropology, Geography,...  Read More >>

This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical...  Read More >>

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Performing Auto/biography: Narrating a Life as Activism analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed in five authors’...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top...  Read More >>

This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of Robert Greene's canon through...  Read More >>

Reconstructs lost Formalist theories of authorship, of the psychology of narrative structure, and of the social...  Read More >>

Nominated, 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award Indian Science Fiction has evolved over the years and can be seen...  Read More >>

World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India describes the way Marathi literary culture, entrenched...  Read More >>

In Engaging Characters, Smith sets out a comprehensive analysis of character, exploring the role of characters in...  Read More >>

The Late Modernist Novel is primarily for an academic readership, especially scholars and students of modernism,...  Read More >>

This study explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World...  Read More >>

This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around...  Read More >>

The Political Logic of Experience argues that experience and phenomenology are essentially political, with profound...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literatures and criticism...  Read More >>

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