Literary theory books

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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

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

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 >>

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

This book rethinks the relation between philosophy and literature as an agonic relation, not privileging either...  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 >>

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 >>

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

This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the...  Read More >>

Affective Intermediality: Moving Images Between Media, Sensation and Reality

Affective Intermediality: Moving Images Between Media,...

Author: Ágnes Pethő
ISBN: 9783032017482
Format: Hardback
$336.35

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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 >>

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: 9781350415300
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The definitive introduction to Queer Theory for anyone looking to understand its key terms, concepts, debates, and...  Read More >>

Thomas Gray: His life and Works

Thomas Gray: His life and Works

Author: A.L. Lytton Sells
ISBN: 9781041322313
Format: Hardback
$388.12

First published in 1980, Thomas Gray is a comprehensive biography of Thomas Gray together with a selection of his...  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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Translating

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach...

Author: Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9798765112809
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation,...  Read More >>

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