Literary theory books

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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
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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 >>

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
This book investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of modern Persian narratives. 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
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 >>

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
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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 >>

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 >>

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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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
Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents... Read More >>

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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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 >>

Freud Explained: Psychoanalysis from Vienna to Exile

Freud Explained: Psychoanalysis from Vienna to Exile...
Author: Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck, University of London) , Esther Rashkin (University of Utah USA) ISBN: 9798216371991 Format: Paperback	$36.99
An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing his theoretical development within the vibrant... Read More >>

Freud Explained: Psychoanalysis from Vienna to Exile

Freud Explained: Psychoanalysis from Vienna to Exile...
Author: Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck, University of London) , Esther Rashkin (University of Utah USA) ISBN: 9798216372004 Format: Hardback	$120.00
An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing his theoretical development within the vibrant... Read More >>

Queer Psychoanalysis: Minor Clinic and Deconstruction of Gender

Queer Psychoanalysis: Minor Clinic and Deconstruction...
Author: Fabrice Bourlez ISBN: 9781041010296 Format: Paperback	$90.54
Queer Psychoanalysis offers a detailed study of the tensions and contiguities between the field of queer theory... 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 >>

Sugarcoated Ethics: Children's Literature and Atlantic Enslavement

Sugarcoated Ethics: Children's Literature and Atlantic...
Author: Courtney Weikle-Mills (University of Pittsburgh) ISBN: 9781421454450 Format: Paperback	$125.00
Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy. What ethical lessons... Read More >>

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