Literary theory books

19139 books were found.

Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity

Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making...

Author: Xiaoling Yao
ISBN: 9781032383415
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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John McGahern: Ways of Looking

John McGahern: Ways of Looking

Author: John Singleton
ISBN: 9781032285443
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Travel Writing

Travel Writing

Author: Carl Thompson (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367492359
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Travel Writing

Travel Writing

Author: Carl Thompson (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367493059
Format: Hardback
$183.00

The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary...  Read More >>

Translation, Pornography, Performativity: Experimenting with That Dangerous Supplement

Translation, Pornography, Performativity: Experimenting...

Author: Douglas Robinson (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) ,  Xiaorui Sun
ISBN: 9781032981154
Format: Hardback
$112.00

Robinson and Sun’s book explores the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralist...  Read More >>

Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979

Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature,...

Author: Per Esben Svelstad
ISBN: 9783031560323
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex...  Read More >>

Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry

Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry...

Author: Jonathan Eburne
ISBN: 9781517918521
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Idiosyncratic essays use their ""exploded"" forms to examine how inquiry functions Insect galls, time, memory...  Read More >>

Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry

Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry...

Author: Jonathan Eburne
ISBN: 9781517918514
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Idiosyncratic essays use their ""exploded"" forms to examine how inquiry functions Insect galls, time, memory...  Read More >>

Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection

Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics...

Author: Michelle Zerba
ISBN: 9780814257814
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism: The Limits of Imagination

Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism: The Limits of...

Author: Carlo Salzani
ISBN: 9783031880278
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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Rene Girard, Law, Literature, and Cinema: The Legal Drama of the Scapegoat

Rene Girard, Law, Literature, and Cinema: The Legal...

Author: Eric M. Wilson
ISBN: 9789819711581
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This book is the first monograph to critically evaluate the work of the literary scholar René Girard from the perspectives...  Read More >>

The Ecology of American Noir

The Ecology of American Noir

Author: Katrina Younes
ISBN: 9781032931555
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume investigates the relationship between the conventions of noir fiction and film and its sub-types in...  Read More >>

Fundamentals of Literary Theory

Fundamentals of Literary Theory

Author: Klaus W. Hempfer
ISBN: 9783031474101
Format: Paperback
$316.77

Drawing on texts from Classical Antiquity to English, German, French, Spanish and Italian literature, the book brings...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Other Minds: Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction

Jane Austen and Other Minds: Ordinary Language Philosophy...

Author: Eric Reid Lindstrom (University of Vermont)
ISBN: 9781009206952
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Jane Austen and Other Minds offers a lively reintroduction to all six of Austen's finished novels through an ambitious...  Read More >>

The Artistic Object and Its Worlds: Literature and Cinema

The Artistic Object and Its Worlds: Literature and Cinema...

Author: Michael Wood ,  Delia Ungureanu
ISBN: 9789004732780
Format: Paperback
$187.44

This book is a unique collection that reflects critically on the complex, non-unidirectional, and organic relationship...  Read More >>

The Mexican Novel in Times of Rupture: At the Intersection of Globalization and Postmodernism

The Mexican Novel in Times of Rupture: At the Intersection...

Author: Héctor Jaimes
ISBN: 9783031891861
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book offers a close reading analysis of contemporary Mexican authors whose novels, in both form and content,...  Read More >>

The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect: Five Critical Conversations

The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect:...

Author: Fernando G Herrero
ISBN: 9781839991622
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the...  Read More >>

Novel and Society in Elizabethan England

Novel and Society in Elizabethan England

Author: David Margolies
ISBN: 9781032995854
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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Dryden

Dryden

Author: William Myers
ISBN: 9781041009856
Format: Hardback
$147.00

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Restoration and Revolution

Restoration and Revolution

Author: William Myers
ISBN: 9781041016281
Format: Hardback
$147.00

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Author: Francis Doherty
ISBN: 9781041011668
Format: Hardback
$147.00

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The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries in Asia

The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition...

Author: Julian Patrick Ward ,  Kelly Kar Yue Chan
ISBN: 9789819789580
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This collection scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or adaptation of various heroes and...  Read More >>

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