Literary Theory

The cultural value of poetry is critically examined in this book, from anthologies and academia to film and the internet. Attention is also given t...

First published in 1945. In this work the author seeks to correct the misinterpretation and incorrect labelling of Shelley’s thought. While not neg...

This groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies. Beginning wi...

Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to...

Through a series of short essays, Readings traces the consideration given to the act of close reading in literary criticism and theory over the las...

This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T. S. Eliot’s writings of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly Four Quar...

Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historica...

Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Bringing together theoretically orientated readin...

This is the first source-book for this cross-disciplinary area. It takes students through a wide range of readings from philosophy, politics, and ...

Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It ...

This Edinburgh Companion seeks to develop a postcolonial framework for addressing the Middle East. The first collection of essays on this subject, ...

Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to...

This is the second of two thematically arranged volumes with papers that were presented at the «World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and thei...

Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Bringing together theoretically orientated readin...

This is not a Derrida Reader. It is the first volume to offer a selection of texts from the field of deconstruction in all its radical diversity. T...

First published in 1992, this book evokes Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse and in doing so, ...

This acclaimed study explores how the common denominators of modernity, neutral time and neutral space, were constructed from the Renaissance to th...

Playing on the frequently used metaphors of the 'turn toward' or 'turn back' in scholarship on religion, The Turn Around Religion in America offers...

Post-Theory brings together some of the most prominent figures and rising stars in the field of Critical Theory. Essays consider such issues as: th...

What does philosophy think about literature? And what does literary theory tell us about philosophy? Find out how philosophy addresses the question...

The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion examines the recurrent figure of the vampire from its folkloric origins, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-c...

This reader brings together selected (complete or self-contained) texts which are not generally anthologised, particularly those which deal with sp...

Jacques Lacan: The Basics provides a clear and succinct introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century...

Thinking Literature across Continents finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and criti...