Literary theory books

19521 books were found.

Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life

Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life

Author: Aleksandr Prigozhin
ISBN: 9781421452234
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  Read More >>

The Cinema of Converging Lives: Complex Films and Intersecting Stories in an Isolated World

The Cinema of Converging Lives: Complex Films and Intersecting...

Author: Lucy Fischer (Distinguished Professor, Emerita, Film and Media Studies, Distinguished Professor, Emerita, Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9780197768655
Format: Hardback
$183.95

What happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important...  Read More >>

Monty Python and the Holy Godal: Comedy, Quirk and Quotation. Reading a German Postmodern Author with a British Comedy Troupe

Monty Python and the Holy Godal: Comedy, Quirk and Quotation....

Author: Zac Van Groll
ISBN: 9798277182017
Format: Paperback
$85.88

This study discloses an oblique canon of modernity in which comedy and gravitas shadow each other like wary twins,...  Read More >>

Die Vielschichtigkeit des Erinnerns: Literatur- und medienwissenschaftliche Analysen

Die Vielschichtigkeit des Erinnerns: Literatur- und...

Author: Anna Braun-Beneke ,  Nicolai Glasenapp
ISBN: 9783662723029
Format: Paperback
$237.57

Erinnern stiftet Identität, sowohl für Einzelne als auch für Gruppen und Kulturen, denn es stellt über eine gemeinsam...  Read More >>

Twilight: ...the in-between

Twilight: ...the in-between

Author: Linda L Flynn
ISBN: 9781732186453
Format: Paperback
$33.00

Twilight ...the in-between is Linda's debut poetry book. Allow the mystique of twilight to draw you in and then...  Read More >>

Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices

Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices...

Author: Elham Bahmanteymouri ,  Jean Hillier (RMIT University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032741536
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice,...  Read More >>

Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: 'Prism, Mirror, Lens'

Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction:...

Author: Amanda Dillon
ISBN: 9781836244868
Format: Hardback
$271.69

Delany, Ursula LeGuin, Joanna Russ, and Brian Aldiss, this book provides answers to the question of how science...  Read More >>

The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary and the Form of Environment

The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description,...

Author: David Rodriguez (Adjunct Assistant Professor in English, Hofstra University)
ISBN: 9781399522939
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment...  Read More >>

Modernism’s Queer Parents: Parenthood in Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust

Modernism’s Queer Parents: Parenthood in Thomas Mann,...

Author: Anchit Sathi
ISBN: 9781041121855
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood...  Read More >>

Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices

Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices...

Author: Elham Bahmanteymouri ,  Jean Hillier (RMIT University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032743462
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice,...  Read More >>

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction...

Author: Paweł Wojtas (Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw)
ISBN: 9781399522588
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee  Read More >>

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality and Imagination

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality...

Author: Niall Oddy (Associate Lecturer, The Open University)
ISBN: 9781399522625
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855–1901

Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems...

Author: Ayendy Bonifacio (Assistant Professor of English, University of Toledo)
ISBN: 9781399523509
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Provides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation...  Read More >>

The Misfortunes of Arthur: A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition

The Misfortunes of Arthur: A Critical, Old-Spelling...

Author: Thomas Hughes ,  Brian J. Corrigan
ISBN: 9781032700724
Format: Paperback
$58.99

The Misfortunes of Arthur, written by Thomas Hughes is one of the earliest printed plays from the English Renaissance...  Read More >>

Ascetic Images: Anna Maria Ortese and Roberto Rossellini in the Underworld

Ascetic Images: Anna Maria Ortese and Roberto Rossellini...

Author: Achille Castaldo (Emory University and)
ISBN: 9798855805000
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Examines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in works by two of the most influential Italian cultural...  Read More >>

Gendered Magic: How Cultural Models Shape Fantasy Worlds

Gendered Magic: How Cultural Models Shape Fantasy Worlds...

Author: Anna Köhler
ISBN: 9783119149662
Format: Hardback
$319.41

At the surface, fantastic storyworlds appear free of the constraints of reality - yet for all their limitless potential,...  Read More >>

Les Frontières de la Littérature Aujourd'hui: Préface de PARE DAOUDA

Les Frontières de la Littérature Aujourd'hui: Préface...

Author: Mathieu Altiné ,  Paul Dezombé
ISBN: 9798899660856
Format: Paperback
$139.92

Parler de frontières de la littérature aujourd'hui revient à examiner à la fois la dynamique des contraintes formelles...  Read More >>

Resonant Utterances: James Joyce and the Transmission of Voices

Resonant Utterances: James Joyce and the Transmission...

Author: Joshua Elwer
ISBN: 9783119142083
Format: Hardback
$71.47

The main question confronted in this book is why James Joyce’s characters so often repeat the words of other characters....  Read More >>

Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde Writing

Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde...

Author: Craig J. Saper (Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9781474454728
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An examination of the way in which small presses expanded authorship to include publishing practices as forms of...  Read More >>

Mari Ruti and Climate Change: From Grief to Creativity

Mari Ruti and Climate Change: From Grief to Creativity...

Author: Clint Burnham
ISBN: 9781032807034
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Author: Marion Thain (Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh) ,  Ewan Jones (Associate Professor of English, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781399521116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins...

Author: Bill Gillard
ISBN: 9781041010494
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

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