Literary theory books

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Beautiful Numbness: Art, Sedation, and Twenty-Five Centuries of the Standing Ovation

Beautiful Numbness: Art, Sedation, and Twenty-Five Centuries...
Author: David Boles ISBN: 9798247748618 Format: Paperback	$47.49
Every standing ovation is a prescription filled. For twenty-five centuries, from Aristotle's Athens to the infinite... Read More >>

Dostoevsky and Christianity: An Interpretation by Nikolai Berdyaev

Dostoevsky and Christianity: An Interpretation by Nikolai...
Author: Dean Marais , Dean Marais ISBN: 9798900210919 Format: Paperback	$52.80
Dostoevsky and Christianity is Nikolai Berdyaev's classic philosophical and theological interpretation of Fyodor... Read More >>

Text First (or The Literacy of the Soul): Towards a Methodology for Literary Texts

Text First (or The Literacy of the Soul): Towards a...
Author: André Boniatti ISBN: 9798243120234 Format: Paperback	$39.57
How can you read your own soul through the ""skin"" of a text? In Text First (or the Literacy of the Soul), André... Read More >>

Truths Unmasked

Truths Unmasked
Author: Taariq Peerbocus ISBN: 9789994972876 Format: Paperback	$52.77
TRUTHS UNMASKEDBy Taariq Truths Unmasked is a sharp, reflective exploration of human behaviour, modern society,... 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
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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 >>

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
Examines Baudelaire’s multifaceted use of natural, domestic, urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and prose... Read More >>

Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch

Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally...
Author: Luke O'Sullivan (Career Development Fellow in Early Modern French, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781399522977 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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Immersion: The Experience of Literary Reading

Immersion: The Experience of Literary Reading
Author: Naomi Adam , Jessica Norledge (Assistant Professor in Stylistics, University of Nottingham, UK) ISBN: 9781399549561 Format: Hardback	$219.00
Brings together researchers from across the world to explore the creation, effect, craft, and effect of a feeling... Read More >>

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity and the Politics of Space

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity...
Author: Karina Jakubowicz (Adjunct Professor, department of English, Florida State University) ISBN: 9781474494533 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens.... Read More >>

Forms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction

Forms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction
Author: Alberto Tondello (Lecturer in the English Department, University of Edinburgh) ISBN: 9781399547413 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvre. Read More >>

Snack

Snack
Author: Eurie Dahn (Professor of English, Independent Scholar, USA) ISBN: 9798765108840 Format: Paperback	$19.99
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Stock Photo

Stock Photo
Author: Simona Supekar (Assistant Professor of English, Pasadena City College, USA) ISBN: 9798765108901 Format: Paperback	$19.99
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Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...
Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York) ISBN: 9781009584562 Format: Paperback	$72.45
How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding... Read More >>

$Hélène Cixous’s Poetics of Voice: Echo—Subjectivity—Diffraction$

Hélène Cixous’s Poetics of Voice: Echo—Subjectivity—Diffraction...
Author: Dr Birgit M. Kaiser (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics at Utrecht University, Utrecht University, Netherlands) ISBN: 9781350404755 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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Photography and Film in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Photography and Film in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee...
Author: Hermann Wittenberg (University of Western Cape) ISBN: 9781009548342 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Scholars, students and general readers of J. M. Coetzee's novels will find this book a fascinating guide to one... Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...
Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York) ISBN: 9781009584579 Format: Hardback	$232.88
How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding... Read More >>

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature
Author: Stacey McDowell (University of Warwick) ISBN: 9781009380423 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing... Read More >>

William James and Literary Studies

William James and Literary Studies
Author: Kate Stanley (University of Western Ontario) , Kristen Case (The Monson Seminar) ISBN: 9781009688635 Format: Hardback	$232.88
Demonstrates William James's role in the history of Anglo-American literary production and the practice of literary... Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures

The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures...
Author: Xiaofan Amy Li (University College, London) ISBN: 9781009670227 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary... Read More >>

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction...
Author: Amy De'Ath ISBN: 9781503644847 Format: Paperback	$73.99
In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped... Read More >>

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction...
Author: Amy De'Ath ISBN: 9781503643840 Format: Hardback	$300.00
In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped... Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel
Author: Julie A. Buckler (Professor, Professor, Harvard University) , Justin Weir (Professor, Professor, Harvard University) ISBN: 9780197520857 Format: Hardback	$419.95
The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian... Read More >>

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