Literary theory books

First published in 1981, this concordance can afford particular benefits to the critic and textual scholar because...  Read More >>

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Realism seems to be everywhere, both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume...  Read More >>

The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked...  Read More >>

"This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens...  Read More >>

Provides a reflection on the relations between nature and culture as manifested by literary artefacts, and reframes...  Read More >>

Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and...  Read More >>

Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores...  Read More >>

This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic...  Read More >>

Critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead...  Read More >>

A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed....  Read More >>

Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world?...  Read More >>

Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments explores the intersection between...  Read More >>

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Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.  Read More >>

Provides the first book-length analysis of modernism and the Anthropocene.  Read More >>

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Making extensive use of family letters, journals and the unpublished work of the poet's daughter Dora, this study...  Read More >>

Literary Revisionism places Bloom, his ally Geoffrey Hartman, and their contemporary literary situation in a borad...  Read More >>

Compiling and critiquing modern theories and theorists of myth, this book offers an overview of theories around...  Read More >>

This volume examines five of the most influential keywords from Western literary theory as it has impacted on Chinese...  Read More >>

This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, and presents a radical...  Read More >>

This volume considers the highly convoluted relationship between F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot, comparing their ideas...  Read More >>

Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe...  Read More >>