Literary theory books

Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels: A Study in Continuity and Change explores the use and context...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary...  Read More >>

How is it possible, after four centuries, that a major episode in Rabelais's novels remains systematically misread?...  Read More >>

Untimely Democracy offers an exploration of how one of the bleakest periods in American racial history provided...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on debates and controversies around the Arabian Nights, which made significant cultural inroads...  Read More >>

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How is it possible, after four centuries, that a major episode in Rabelais's novels remains systematically misread?...  Read More >>

In nine interrelated chapters, the book highlights both the flaws and the strengths of Lacan’s ideas, in areas of...  Read More >>

This book reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and...  Read More >>

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Underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery....  Read More >>

Tobias O. Meißner zeigt mit seinen Romanen, wie sich die vermeintlich engen Grenzen der Genreliteratur dehnen lassen....  Read More >>

In nine interrelated chapters, the book highlights both the flaws and the strengths of Lacan’s ideas, in areas of...  Read More >>

What is tragedy? What does the term imply? The word had outgrown its original context of literature and art and...  Read More >>

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"First published in 1988, the 19 original essays (and three ""Sylvia"" cartoons) included in this volume deal with...  Read More >>

In this brief study, originally published in 1984, David Hirst examines the meaning of the term ‘tragicomedy’ by...  Read More >>

First published in 1939, the original blurb begins: We have learned much lately concerning theories of laughter,...  Read More >>

Ever since comedies were first performed, the definition of the term ‘comedy’ has been debated by both playwrights...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1973, the history of French tragedy and tragicomedy from their origins in the sixteenth...  Read More >>

Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which...  Read More >>

Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical...  Read More >>

Deutsche Literatur wird nicht ausschließlich in deutscher Sprache geschrieben und gelesen. Er eröffnet eine Methodendiskussion...  Read More >>

Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime...  Read More >>