Literary theory books

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Jackie Kay: Critical Essays

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays

Author: Tasha Alden ,  Fiona Tolan
ISBN: 9781032757278
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays offers the first full-length critical study of Jackie Kay’s work. It brings together...  Read More >>

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of...

Author: Umasankar Patra
ISBN: 9781032909103
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belongingargues that this negotiation takes place in and through...  Read More >>

Unmasking (New) Maternal Realities: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum in Global Literature, Cinema, and Media

Unmasking (New) Maternal Realities: Pregnancy, Childbirth,...

Author: Laura Lazzari ,  Giulia Po DeLisle
ISBN: 9783031736735
Format: Paperback
$527.97

This book aims to shed light on artistic works centered on mothering and reproductive experiences, ones which defy...  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 >>

John the Baptist and Composite Intertextuality in the Fourth Gospel: The Evangelist's Archetypal Witness

John the Baptist and Composite Intertextuality in the...

Author: Amber M. Dillon
ISBN: 9789004755000
Format: Hardback
$311.52

This book examines intertextuality in the Gospel of John as it is woven into John the Baptist's characterization...  Read More >>

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays

Author: Tasha Alden ,  Fiona Tolan
ISBN: 9781032757285
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays offers the first full-length critical study of Jackie Kay’s work. It brings together...  Read More >>

Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Narratives

Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian...

Author: Chitra Sankaran
ISBN: 9781032597713
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This volume provides a timely contribution to the ongoing conversation on the agency of matter in environmental...  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

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

Innocence, Desire, and the Architecture of the Fall: The Grape and Its Counter-Symbols in the Fiction of John Hawkes

Innocence, Desire, and the Architecture of the Fall:...

Author: Jason Carroll Holloway
ISBN: 9798295778247
Format: Paperback
$39.55

What does a single recurring image reveal about the hidden architecture of a novelist's entire body of work? Across...  Read More >>

Landor as Critic

Landor as Critic

Author: Charles L. Proudfit
ISBN: 9781041249818
Format: Hardback
$297.56

First published in 1979, Landor as Critic examines Walter Savage Landor’s critical writings, showcasing his literary...  Read More >>

Hitchcock and Hospitality

Hitchcock and Hospitality

Author: Ned Schantz (McGill University)
ISBN: 9798855806762
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Unfolds the central importance of broken hospitality in the director's work.  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the Holocaust

Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the...

Author: Rina Dudai
ISBN: 9781032517452
Format: Paperback
$90.54

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  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 >>

Verraetselt, verdunkelt, verklaert: Theoretische Aspekte der deutschsprachigen Rezeption Baudelaires, Rimbauds und Mallarmés (1857-1956)

Verraetselt, verdunkelt, verklaert: Theoretische Aspekte...

Author: Françoise Lartillot ,  Leo Pinke
ISBN: 9783034362191
Format: Paperback
$160.43

Baudelaire, Rimbaud und Mallarmé sind zu Eigennamen der Modernität geworden. Zugleich wurden sie im Laufe des 19....  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the Holocaust

Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the...

Author: Rina Dudai
ISBN: 9781032517469
Format: Hardback
$388.12

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  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 >>

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 >>

Afropean Biblical Studies: Constructing a Nigerian/British Women's Hermeneutic

Afropean Biblical Studies: Constructing a Nigerian/British...

Author: Olabisi Obamakin
ISBN: 9789004754522
Format: Hardback
$282.48

Step into the pioneering field of Afropean Biblical Studies. This book constructs a Nigerian/British women’s hermeneutic...  Read More >>

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature...

Author: Julia C. Obert
ISBN: 9781805966852
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy...  Read More >>

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