Literary theory books

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

This book introduces scholars and students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. It focuses on representative...  Read More >>

The volume features the work of leading scholars from the US, UK, Germany, China, Spain, and Russia and presents...  Read More >>

Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1986, this book subverts an attitude towards the moral dimension of life which the author...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1986, this book explores the animating qualities of human character and moral thought and...  Read More >>

In explaining the nature and importance of these thinking skills and the ability of literary study to develop them,...  Read More >>

Contains an interview with Alain Badiou, held June 18, 2019 in Paris and two lectures: ""Philosophy between mathematics...  Read More >>

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What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence staged by Kerouac and by Ginsberg is underpinned,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Form rejects claims that the legacy of high theory has been superseded by New Historicism, post-colonial...  Read More >>

In explaining the nature and importance of these thinking skills and the ability of literary study to develop them,...  Read More >>

Locating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social class in British fiction through the lens of...  Read More >>

This book poses the question of contemporary historical consciousness across a wide spectrum of cultural phenomena...  Read More >>

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Contains an interview with Alain Badiou, held June 18, 2019 in Paris and two lectures: ""Philosophy between mathematics...  Read More >>

This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the ""wordless novels"" of American woodcut artist and...  Read More >>

While Faulkner’s Ethics does not claim that Faulkner read Sidgwick’s work, this book traces Faulkner’s moral sensitivity....  Read More >>

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This volume documents the triple-series Austrian-American Podium Dialog held at Lafayette College in 2013, 2015,...  Read More >>

Das Buch präsentiert eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der zeitgenössischen westlichen Literaturtheorie, beschreibt...  Read More >>

Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

An introduction to Ezra Pound's work. Alexander shows how he contributed to the modernist movement through his own...  Read More >>

An investigation of the >borderlands of narrativity  Read More >>