Literary theory books

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter Cacaphonies takes fecal matter and its...  Read More >>

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W. B. Yeats’s A Vision is notoriously dense. This book provides an authoritative, clear and straightforward guide...  Read More >>

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"Beyond Collective Memory investigates the elisions of ""memory,"" and invites an exploration of the African pasts...  Read More >>

Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves...  Read More >>

HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

Through its examination of the nexus between the history of emotions and the social and cultural uses of colour...  Read More >>

Elements of Criticism (1762) is a philosophical work by Henry Home, Lord Kames. Published at the height of his career...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value...  Read More >>

Die Abhandlung erläutert Roman Ingardens (1893-1970) Konzept von Fiktionalität in Hinblick auf die Möglichkeiten...  Read More >>

Nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in...  Read More >>

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Mit der Analyse fiktionaler Darstellungen, genauer Erzählungen, der Finanzkrise 2008 und des Gründerkrachs 1873...  Read More >>

Drawing on Husserlian resources and existentialist and hermeneutical approaches, this book argues that critique...  Read More >>

This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the...  Read More >>

As one of the first studies exploring Morrison’s archived drafts, notes, and manuscripts together with her published...  Read More >>

Janiform Texts and Covert Plots postulates hidden plots in works by Shakespeare, Wells, Kipling, Conrad, Forster,...  Read More >>

The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in this work. Addressing sexuality...  Read More >>

Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, the author merges personal history and scholarship to...  Read More >>

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The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority...  Read More >>

The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in this work. Addressing sexuality...  Read More >>