Literary Theory

Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St ...

Elements of Criticism (1762) is a philosophical work by Henry Home, Lord Kames. Published at the height of his career as a leading legal and cultur...

Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development represents an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of Leon Trotsky's concept of uneven and c...

[Cappello's] excellent new book-length essay, Lecture... at once defends the lecture and calls for holistic and creative improvements to the form.T...

Beyond Marx and Other Entries explores deep areas of semiotics, joined with economics, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and political s...

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In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced hi...

This is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis - both appreciative and interpretive in its 'evaluations' - across dozens of auth...

German sociologist Max Webers 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a masterpiece of political theory and sociology. Its centra...

Our Ecological Footprint presents a powerful model for measuring humanitys impact on the Earth to reduce the harm we are causing the planet before ...

In The Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg does more than introduce his readers to a novel group of supposed witches the Benandanti, from the northern I...

Few works of history have succeeded so completely in forcing their readers to take a fresh look at the evidence as Christopher Hill's The World Tur...

First published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of criticism, and served to introduce the French Symbol...

A beginning, especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intel...

Rural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much - if not more - than urban and suburb...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Sca...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her si...