Literary theory books

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Pascale Casanova’s World of Letters and Its Legacies

Pascale Casanova’s World of Letters and Its Legacies...

Author: Gisèle Sapiro ,  Delia Ungureanu
ISBN: 9789004522862
Format: Paperback
$163.68

A wide-ranging appraisal of the work, influence and intellectual profile of Pascale Casanova, a major figure in...  Read More >>

A Crime Fiction Reader: Craft and Criticism

A Crime Fiction Reader: Craft and Criticism

Author: David Schmid
ISBN: 9781501316289
Format: Hardback
$316.80

The first anthology of its kind, A Crime Fiction Reader: Craft and Criticism brings together classic and contemporary...  Read More >>

Translating the Monster: Volter Kilpi in Orbit Beyond (Un)translatability

Translating the Monster: Volter Kilpi in Orbit Beyond...

Author: Douglas Robinson
ISBN: 9789004519923
Format: Hardback
$330.00

What can Finland’s greatest and supposedly least translatable novel tell us about translation and world literature?...  Read More >>

Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience: Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grünbein

Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience: Klopstock, Nietzsche,...

Author: Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge (Associate Professor of German, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
ISBN: 9780192859211
Format: Hardback
$235.46

Shows that analyzing meter as it is discussed and deployed in different historical moments offers crucial insights...  Read More >>

Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative

Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical...

Author: Devon Healey
ISBN: 9783030808136
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative engages with the cultural meanings and...  Read More >>

The Politics of Vibration: Music As a Cosmopolitical Practice

The Politics of Vibration: Music As a Cosmopolitical...

Author: Marcus Boon
ISBN: 9781478018391
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration...  Read More >>

A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women: Fictions, Histories, Myths

A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women: Fictions, Histories,...

Author: Leanne Bibby
ISBN: 9783031086700
Format: Hardback
$232.85

The book will be the first study of Byatt’s work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women...  Read More >>

The Politics of Vibration: Music As a Cosmopolitical Practice

The Politics of Vibration: Music As a Cosmopolitical...

Author: Marcus Boon
ISBN: 9781478015765
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration...  Read More >>

The Poetic of Reason: Introducing Rational Poetic Experimentalism

The Poetic of Reason: Introducing Rational Poetic Experimentalism...

Author: Stefán Snævarr
ISBN: 9789004523807
Format: Hardback
$586.08

This book introduces and explores Rational Poetic Experimentalism (RPE). According to RPE, it makes sense to regard...  Read More >>

Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants: Reproduction and the Future in Ibsen’s Late Plays

Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants: Reproduction and the...

Author: Olivia Gunn
ISBN: 9781032400815
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys’ Adventure Novel

Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the...

Author: Michelle Elleray
ISBN: 9781032401027
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Lacan’s Cruelty: Perversion beyond Philosophy, Culture and Clinic

Lacan’s Cruelty: Perversion beyond Philosophy, Culture...

Author: Meera Lee
ISBN: 9783031062377
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, is a unique exploration...  Read More >>

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology...

Author: Erin James ,  Eric Morel
ISBN: 9780814255650
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Collection of essays connecting ecocriticism and narrative theory to encourage constructive discourse about narrative's...  Read More >>

Conrad’s Malaysian Fiction

Conrad’s Malaysian Fiction

Author: Florence Clemens ,  Gene M. Moore
ISBN: 9789004525917
Format: Hardback
$282.48

Long before the issue of colonialism in Joseph Conrad’s works became a prominent topic in Conrad studies, Florence...  Read More >>

The Emotive Theory of Ethics

The Emotive Theory of Ethics

Author: J. O. Urmson
ISBN: 9780367504793
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Originally published in 1968, this book traces the development of the emotive theory of ethics. Attention is paid...  Read More >>

Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives

Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial...

Author: Dr Stuart Cooke (Griffith University, Australia) ,  Dr Peter Denney (Griffith University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350213821
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative...  Read More >>

Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction

Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Catherine Belsey
ISBN: 9780198859963
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This book traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory

The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory

Author: Stuart Sim (Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing, Northumbria University)
ISBN: 9781399508841
Format: Paperback
$99.99

Featuring an international team of specialists on the subject, The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides...  Read More >>

Trench Coat

Trench Coat

Author: Professor Jane Tynan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781501375163
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We think...  Read More >>

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