Literary theory books

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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 >>

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 >>

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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A History of American Gay Autobiography

A History of American Gay Autobiography
Author: David Bergman (Towson University) , Guy Davidson (University of Wollongong) ISBN: 9781009329255 Format: Hardback	$232.88
By providing the first comprehensive study of the culturally and historically significant field of American gay... 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 >>

Vicious Circles: Disclosing a History of Critique

Vicious Circles: Disclosing a History of Critique
Author: Arvi Särkelä ISBN: 9781503645417 Format: Hardback	$323.00
How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique... Read More >>

The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present

The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present...
Author: Christian R. Gelder (Macquarie University, Sydney) ISBN: 9781009710213 Format: Hardback	$245.81
This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new... Read More >>

Baudelaire's Objects

Baudelaire's Objects
Author: Professor Joseph Acquisto (Chair, Dept. of Romance Languages and Linguistics, University of Vermont, USA) ISBN: 9798765150825 Format: Hardback	$180.00
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Our Prediction

Our Prediction
Author: Daniel Tiffany ISBN: 9781531513139 Format: Paperback	$43.99
An intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates The poems of Our Prediction... Read More >>

A General Narratology

A General Narratology
Author: Yiheng Zhao ISBN: 9789819580675 Format: Hardback	$310.47
This book attempts to provide a basic theory for all narratives, in order to shake narratology off its age-long... Read More >>

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 >>

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