Literary Theory

John Stuart Mills 1861 Utilitarianism remains one of the most widely known and influential works of moral philosophy ever written. It is also a mod...

There are few better examples of analysis the critical thinking skill of understanding how an argument is built than Robert Dahls Democracy and i...

C.S. Lewiss Mere Christianity is a perfect example of one of the most effective aspects of critical thinking skills: the use of reasoning to build ...

The work of memory researchers Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch is a prime example of the ways in which good critical thinkers approach questions and...

Hamid Dabashis 1997 work Theology of Discontent reveals a creative thinker capable not only of understanding how an argument is built, but also of ...

David Humes 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that helped reshape epistemology the philosophy of knowl...

In Translation and Rewriting in the Age of Post-Translation Studies, Edwin Gentzler argues that rewritings of literary works have taken translation...

The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the la...

Jane Austen was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but one would probably never guess that...

The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material biographical, literary ...

Through a series of radical and innovative chapters, Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition...

This book places Benjamins writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any a...

A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrells The Alexandria Quartet: Exile and Return focuses on the dialogue created by literature and psychoanalys...

Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural product...

This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the...

This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed referen...

This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed referen...

The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has...

An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contr...