Literary theory

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field.

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut examines how comics reveal evolving perspectives on gender, sex and sexuality in the United States.

Originally published in 1972, Restoration Literature is a landmark in the study of seventeenth-century English literature.

Originally published in 1972, Restoration Literature is a landmark in the study of seventeenth-century English literature.

Dr Samuel Johnson's literary works are full of variety and interest.

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut examines how comics reveal evolving perspectives on gender, sex and sexuality in the United States.

First published in 1969, Comparative Literature explores an area of interest rather than a special discipline.

This book is in honour of the late sociologist Ken Plummer - a remarkable scholar whose work transformed several fields, from his early writing on symbolic interactionism, stigma, and sexualities, through methodological innovations that have underpinned the 'narrative turn', to his explorations of citizenship and humanism.

This book is in honour of the late sociologist Ken Plummer - a remarkable scholar whose work transformed several fields, from his early writing on symbolic interactionism, stigma, and sexualities, through methodological innovations that have underpinned the 'narrative turn', to his explorations of citizenship and humanism.

Moving beyond a cisgender, heteronormative framework, this book investigates Shakespeare's queer legacy on Emily Dickinson's work, particularly how this legacy has inflected Dickinson's queer world-making and her conception not only of gender and sexuality, but also of the lyric itself.

This book introduces a new methodology for understanding videogames, with particular attention to three types of videogames: toy-games, storybook games, and ludonarratives.

Moving beyond a cisgender, heteronormative framework, this book investigates Shakespeare's queer legacy on Emily Dickinson's work, particularly how this legacy has inflected Dickinson's queer world-making and her conception not only of gender and sexuality, but also of the lyric itself.

First published in 1969, Comparative Literature explores an area of interest rather than a special discipline.

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women's writing in the global context.

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women's writing in the global context.

Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi: Writing Home explores how contemporary British poets navigate the complex and often contested concept of 'home'.

This book introduces a new methodology for understanding videogames, with particular attention to three types of videogames: toy-games, storybook games, and ludonarratives.

The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's 'O' pays homage to Wilfred Bion's lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating profound levels of emotional experience.

Fairytales form a cornerstone of children's and YA literature studies, and the tale of 'Hansel and Gretel' has been translated, adapted and retold across the years.

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science fiction from all over the world who were at the vanguard of the genre from 1872-1942.

When Damon Galgut won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise in 2021, he was already an established writer.

Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction is the first sustained critical analysis of the representation of sapphic adolescent protagonists in contemporary Irish Young Adult (YA) literature.

This volume is the first extended investigation of the classicism of Jose Rizal (1861-1896), the de facto national hero of the Philippines, and explores how Greco-Roman antiquity was harnessed by Rizal and other Philippine artists and thinkers at the end of the Spanish colonial period.

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science fiction from all over the world who were at the vanguard of the genre from 1872-1942.

When Damon Galgut won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise in 2021, he was already an established writer.

Fairytales form a cornerstone of children's and YA literature studies, and the tale of 'Hansel and Gretel' has been translated, adapted and retold across the years.

Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction is the first sustained critical analysis of the representation of sapphic adolescent protagonists in contemporary Irish Young Adult (YA) literature.

Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium.

Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture offers a fresh and thought-provoking exploration of transnationalism, focusing on the mobility of populations who may not physically leave their national borders, but whose potential for movement subtly challenges the power and authority of the state.

The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's 'O' pays homage to Wilfred Bion's lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating profound levels of emotional experience.

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field.

Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi: Writing Home explores how contemporary British poets navigate the complex and often contested concept of 'home'.

This book emerges from "e;Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces"e;, an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary project uniting social scientists, postcolonial scholars, and artists worldwide to raise critical issues related to the death of migrants.

Published shortly after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet regime, Specters of Marx is one of Derrida's most interesting and prophetic books.

Introduction to the Attribution of Literature describes the first unbiased and accessible authorship attribution method, and uses it to present the first accurate re-attribution of 311 canonical texts from the 18th century to only 10 ghostwriters, and 323 texts from the 19th century to 11 ghostwriters.

The first comprehensive review of all extant "e;Italian"e; chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes "e;Filipino"e; Otherness with the unique condition of "e;Italian"e; ambivalence and alterity within Europe.

The first comprehensive review of all extant "e;Italian"e; chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes "e;Filipino"e; Otherness with the unique condition of "e;Italian"e; ambivalence and alterity within Europe.

This volume is the first extended investigation of the classicism of Jose Rizal (1861-1896), the de facto national hero of the Philippines, and explores how Greco-Roman antiquity was harnessed by Rizal and other Philippine artists and thinkers at the end of the Spanish colonial period.

This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials as both subject and medium to reimagine human relationships with the natural world.

This edited collection of essays analyses the contributions that presentist theory and criticism have made to the field of Shakespeare studies in recent years while simultaneously highlighting the contributions of Hugh Grady to that intellectual endeavour.

The book examines the links between literature and film in Latin America by using queer theory and a series of recent cultural productions whose arguments destabilize traditional gender roles and heteronormative masculinity.