Literary Theory

GCSE Literature Boost: A Christmas Carol uses academic criticism and theory to relight your literary passion for this classic text and put a newfou...

GCSE Literature Boost: A Christmas Carol uses academic criticism and theory to relight your literary passion for this classic text and put a newfou...

This edited collection offers an in-depth exploration of the role of landscape and place as literary settings. It examines the multifaceted relatio...

Amartya Sens Inequality Re-Examined is a seminal text setting out a theory to evaluate social arrangements and inequality. By asking the question, ...

Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature Nathan Gorelicks The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between...

The impact of William Jamess 1890 The Principles of Psychology is such that he is commonly known as the father of his subject. Though psychology it...

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...

The politics of literature is not the same as the politics of writers and their commitments, nor does it concern the way writers represent social s...

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...

Sigmund Freuds 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an unknown te...