Literary theory books

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Science and Poetry

Science and Poetry
Author: I A (Ivor Armstrong) Richards ISBN: 9781025968339 Format: Paperback	$42.11
""Science and Poetry"" is a foundational work of literary theory that explores the shifting relationship between... Read More >>

Rethinking the Relation between Philosophy and Literature: The Mortal Agony of Thought

Rethinking the Relation between Philosophy and Literature:...
Author: Alex Obrigewitsch ISBN: 9783032197238 Format: Hardback	$284.60
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A General Narratology

A General Narratology
Author: Yiheng Zhao ISBN: 9789819580675 Format: Hardback	$310.47
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Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020...
Author: Professor or Dr. Oliver Haslam (Harlaxton College, University of Evansville, UK) ISBN: 9798765109403 Format: Paperback	$59.99
Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US... Read More >>

On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

On Fiction and Being a Good Animal
Author: David P. Rando (Professor of English, Trinity University, Texas) ISBN: 9781399538060 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for... Read More >>

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence
Author: John Peters (University Distinguished Research Professor, University of North Texas) ISBN: 9781399535861 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence Read More >>

Maggie Humm – Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Writing and the Visual

Maggie Humm – Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf,...
Author: Maggie Humm (Emeritus Professor, University of East London) ISBN: 9781399560979 Format: Hardback	$219.00
Brings together Maggie Humm's pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures.... Read More >>

T. S. Eliot's Drama: Critical Perspectives

T. S. Eliot's Drama: Critical Perspectives
Author: Fabio L. Vericat (Associate Professor in the English Department, Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain) , Dídac Llorens-Cubedo (Teacher of English and US literature, Spanish Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain) ISBN: 9781399541213 Format: Hardback	$219.00
What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,... Read More >>

The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Racialized Affect and the Poetics of Space in Latina Narratives

The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Racialized Affect...
Author: Natalia Villanueva-Nieves ISBN: 9783032194336 Format: Hardback	$284.60
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Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Speculative Fiction: Mothers Out of this World

Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist...
Author: Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen , Sara Martín ISBN: 9783032126320 Format: Hardback	$336.35
This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood... Read More >>

World-Making Narratives: Contemporary African Women's Writing

World-Making Narratives: Contemporary African Women's...
Author: Alessandra Di Pietro ISBN: 9783032144126 Format: Hardback	$116.41
This open access book sets out to investigate how contemporary African women writers are challenging traditional... Read More >>

Narration and Narratology in Modern Persian Literature

Narration and Narratology in Modern Persian Literature...
Author: Alireza Korangy , Sara Khorshidi ISBN: 9789819698325 Format: Hardback	$258.72
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Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology...
Author: Elizabeth D. Gruber ISBN: 9783032181541 Format: Hardback	$369.57
Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology examines five female-authored novelizations of The Tempest,... Read More >>

Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Cultures

Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary...
Author: Oliver Scheiding (University of Mainz, Germany) ISBN: 9781119825166 Format: Paperback	$53.95
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The Heroic Shift: Emergence of the Collective as 21st-Century Hero

The Heroic Shift: Emergence of the Collective as 21st-Century...
Author: Priscilla Hobbs , Rebekah Lovejoy ISBN: 9781666951233 Format: Hardback	$180.00
During the 21st century, the collective hero has emerged as the defining archetype in media, reflecting shifts in... Read More >>

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four...
Author: Natalia I. Petrovskaia ISBN: 9781837723355 Format: Paperback	$57.99
The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi.... 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
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Affective Intermediality: Moving Images Between Media, Sensation and Reality

Affective Intermediality: Moving Images Between Media,...
Author: Ágnes Pethő ISBN: 9783032017482 Format: Hardback	$336.35
Through in-depth case studies, the book examines how intermedial art practices involving moving images can convey... Read More >>

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 >>

The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the Anthropocene

The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the...
Author: Claire Cox ISBN: 9783032165541 Format: Hardback	$284.60
Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book... Read More >>

Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures

Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures
Author: Hannah McCann (University of Melbourne, Australia) , Whitney Monaghan (Monash University, Australia) ISBN: 9781350415317 Format: Paperback	$54.99
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No Place Like Home: Women Philosophers' Struggles with Domesticity

No Place Like Home: Women Philosophers' Struggles with...
Author: Sandrine Bergès (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Bilkent University) ISBN: 9780197687383 Format: Hardback	$92.27
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Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures

Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures
Author: Hannah McCann (University of Melbourne, Australia) , Whitney Monaghan (Monash University, Australia) ISBN: 9781350415300 Format: Hardback	$160.00
The definitive introduction to Queer Theory for anyone looking to understand its key terms, concepts, debates, and... Read More >>

Mere Materialism: Aesthetics of Attrition in Paint, Text, and Paper

Mere Materialism: Aesthetics of Attrition in Paint,...
Author: Steven Goldsmith ISBN: 9781531514167 Format: Paperback	$80.99
Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration.... Read More >>

Vital Moments: Life, Matter, and Time in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Vital Moments: Life, Matter, and Time in Nineteenth-Century...
Author: Thomas Allen (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Ottawa) ISBN: 9780197839300 Format: Hardback	$183.95
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