Literary Theory
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.
Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Powers of Horror
You Can't Joke About That
The Western Canon
Meander, Spiral, Explode
In the Dust of This Planet
Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Beginning Theory
The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses
Immediacy
S/z
Where I'm Reading From
The Book of Promethea
Language, Counter-memory, Practice
The Jewel-hinged Jaw
Distant Reading
Imperial Eyes
Secular Scripture
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Understanding David Foster Wallace
The Gothic
The Antinomies of Realism
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Roberto Bolaño's Fiction
Omnicide
The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
Allegory and Ideology
Monstrous Intimacies
Thiefing Sugar
Ricoeur on Time and Narrative
Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings
Creation and Recreation
Allegories of the Anthropocene
Topophrenia
The Black Feminist Reader
Latinx Literature Unbound
The Lyric Theory Reader
The Politics of Style
Translating Empire
Inhuman Citizenship
African Literature
Crisis and Criticism
Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman
The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China
Visions of Dystopia in China’s New Historical Novels
Reading Character After Calvin
Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory
Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination
Walter Benjamin
Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature
Gothic and Modernism
Theory As Practice
Narratives of Nothing in 20th-century Literature
A Fictional Commons
Things With a History
Writing in the Margin
African Fiction and Joseph Conrad
Contradictory Subjects
Textual Exposures
Imagining India in Modern China