Literary Theory

Some poems can change our lives; they lead us to look at the world through new eyes. In this book, inspired by Martin Heidegger—who found in poetry...

From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' – a new way of reading texts full of possibility and genre blending ...

This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From ...

Critical Games is about the games we play (whether we know it or not), the ways we play them (for fun, but also to win, and to gain approval from o...

Raymond Williams's work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, explor...

Han Suyin (1916/1917-2012) became a household name when “Love is A Many-splendored Thing”, the Hollywood rendition of her novel won several awards ...

Few public intellectuals have had such a big impact outside the academy as Edward Said.This, the first full-length intellectual biography of the gr...

Virginia Woolf’s Microgenesis analyses Virginia Woolf’s novels through her own methodological approach to mind, to meaning, and to making whole. Th...

Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson's l...

Following Congress’s approval of the creation of Shenandoah National Park in 1926, displaced Virginia mountain families wrote to U.S. government of...

A distinguished poet and essayist and one of the finest writers of short stories in world letters, Jorge Luis Borges deliberately and regularly alt...

Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each ...

This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools, movements and discursive practices in major Sout...

Probing reassessment of the relation between Celan's poetry and Heidegger's thought.The relevance of Martin Heidegger's thinking to Paul Celan's po...

The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities is a guide to the debates, concepts, and theories at the intersect...

First published in 1987, The New Eighteenth Century (now with a new preface by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown) examines eighteenth century Engli...

First published in 1974, New Directions in Literary History is a comprehensive attempt to present approaches to literary studies that have develope...

Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre critically engages with works of theatre both by and about working-class women historically and...

In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the ""self-consc...

The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities is a guide to the debates, concepts, and theories at the intersect...

The Borders of Empathy in Children’s Fiction centres the question of how reading fiction develops our moral imagination and our capacities to think...

In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the ""self-consc...

What is classical culture for? Thinking with Classical Matter brings together leading experts from across the humanities, and as a whole celebrates...