Literary theory books

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If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in...
Author: Daniel Hahn ISBN: 9781805301622 Format: Hardback	$55.00
A fascinating study into the world of translation and Shakespeare from the award-winning translator Daniel Hahn... Read More >>

Literature in the Light of Philosophy: The Interpretive Imagination

Literature in the Light of Philosophy: The Interpretive...
Author: Garry L. Hagberg ISBN: 9783032092564 Format: Hardback	$284.60
This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the... Read More >>

Pollution and Poverty: Environmental Casteism and Dalit Literature

Pollution and Poverty: Environmental Casteism and Dalit...
Author: Shubhanku Kochar , Rananjayaa Singh ISBN: 9789819568758 Format: Hardback	$336.35
This book offers a critical exploration of the intersections of poverty, pollution, and caste in India through the... Read More >>

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories
Author: Richard Barlow (Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University) , Paul Fagan (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University) ISBN: 9781399529440 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake Read More >>

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture
Author: Benjamin A. Saltzman ISBN: 9780226847221 Format: Paperback	$49.95
A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look... Read More >>

The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of Romantic Literary Criticism

The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of...
Author: Joel Childers ISBN: 9781503636682 Format: Hardback	$173.00
The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story... Read More >>

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives,...
Author: Louise Benson James (Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium) ISBN: 9781399523080 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature. Read More >>

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture
Author: Benjamin A. Saltzman ISBN: 9780226847214 Format: Hardback	$190.95
A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look... Read More >>

Silence: A Literary History

Silence: A Literary History
Author: Kate McLoughlin (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780192855626 Format: Hardback	$70.95
Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states... Read More >>

Making Common Sense: On the Construction of the Obvious from Antiquity to AI

Making Common Sense: On the Construction of the Obvious...
Author: Michael North ISBN: 9781503646186 Format: Hardback	$277.00
Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly... Read More >>

Adaptation in Musical Theatre

Adaptation in Musical Theatre
Author: Adam Rush (University of Winchester, UK) ISBN: 9781350381797 Format: Paperback	$21.99
A concise and readable study into the role of adaptation in the form of musical theatre, drawing on contemporary... Read More >>

Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis

Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis...
Author: Jeffrey Berman (University of Albany, USA) ISBN: 9781350471870 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction: Redefining the Philosopher in Multi-cultural Contexts

Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction: Redefining the...
Author: Professor Anway Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) , Professor Saptarshi Mallick (University of Graz, Austria and Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, India) ISBN: 9798765100929 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind
Author: Dr. David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA) ISBN: 9798765111086 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson, Flaubert, and Melville

Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson,...
Author: Dr. John Park (New College of Florida, USA) ISBN: 9798765108710 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical

British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
Author: Megan Peiser (Oakland University) ISBN: 9781421454078 Format: Paperback	$135.00
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The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification

The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification...
Author: Hector Amaya ISBN: 9781503645813 Format: Paperback	$80.99
We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities.... Read More >>

The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification

The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification...
Author: Hector Amaya ISBN: 9781503645554 Format: Hardback	$323.00
We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities.... Read More >>

Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960

Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African...
Author: W. Lawrence Hogue ISBN: 9781839997945 Format: Hardback	$160.00
Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African... Read More >>

Autofiction: Narrating the Sensitive

Autofiction: Narrating the Sensitive
Author: Larissa Muraveva ISBN: 9783112228517 Format: Hardback	$71.47
Challenging the view of autofiction as a hybrid of autobiography and the novel, this book redefines it as a mode... Read More >>

Unsettling Narratives: Folklore’s Textual Geographies

Unsettling Narratives: Folklore’s Textual Geographies...
Author: James Thurgill ISBN: 9781837723638 Format: Hardback	$185.00
This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between... Read More >>

Religion in Irish Literature and Culture

Religion in Irish Literature and Culture
Author: Willa Murphy (Ulster University) , Chris Murray (Monash University) ISBN: 9781009191623 Format: Hardback	$232.88
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Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of...
Author: Umasankar Patra ISBN: 9781032909103 Format: Hardback	$401.06
Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belongingargues that this negotiation takes place in and through... Read More >>

Vicious Circles: Disclosing a History of Critique

Vicious Circles: Disclosing a History of Critique
Author: Arvi Särkelä ISBN: 9781503645721 Format: Paperback	$80.99
How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique... Read More >>

Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times

Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian...
Author: Joe P. L. Davidson ISBN: 9780262554046 Format: Paperback	$95.00
""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a... Read More >>

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