Literary theory books

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Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits

Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits...

Author: Jason Allen-Paisant (Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing, Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780192867223
Format: Hardback
$181.13

In this inventive and thoughtful study, renowned poet Jason Allen-Paisant provides a timely critical reappraisal...  Read More >>

Modernist Waterscapes: Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf

Modernist Waterscapes: Water, Imagination and Materiality...

Author: Marlene Dirschauer
ISBN: 9783031134234
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics.  Read More >>

Dancing an Embodied Sinthome: Beyond Phallic Jouissance

Dancing an Embodied Sinthome: Beyond Phallic Jouissance...

Author: Megan Sherritt
ISBN: 9783031423260
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the art of dance and explores...  Read More >>

Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements

Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements...

Author: Basil Arnould Price ,  Jane Elizabeth Bonsall
ISBN: 9783031126499
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Enacting a dialogue between medieval studies, feminist thought, and queer theory, Medieval Mobilities proposes that...  Read More >>

Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives

Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European...

Author: Cheri Colby Langdell
ISBN: 9783031131592
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. Spanning Merwin’s...  Read More >>

Kollektive Autor:innenschaft – digital/analog

Kollektive Autor:innenschaft – digital/analog

Author: Michael Gamper ,  Anna Luhn
ISBN: 9783662677032
Format: Paperback
$211.17

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World Literature in the Soviet Union

World Literature in the Soviet Union

Author: Galin Tihanov ,  Anne Lounsbery
ISBN: 9798887194158
Format: Hardback
$270.00

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Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction

Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles...

Author: Annika Eisenberg
ISBN: 9783031167362
Format: Paperback
$343.17

Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore...  Read More >>

Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders

Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing...

Author: Nora Foster Stovel
ISBN: 9783031114823
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This collection of essays explores celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields’s experimentation with the essay genre...  Read More >>

The Other Synaesthesia

The Other Synaesthesia

Author: Susan Bernstein
ISBN: 9781438493619
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life

New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis...

Author: Christopher Rovee
ISBN: 9781531505127
Format: Paperback
$64.99

New Critical Nostalgia explores literary study’s nostalgic attachments to its past by recasting an essential episode...  Read More >>

New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life

New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis...

Author: Christopher Rovee
ISBN: 9781531505110
Format: Hardback
$227.99

New Critical Nostalgia explores literary study’s nostalgic attachments to its past by recasting an essential episode...  Read More >>

Gaia-Ästhetiken im zeitgenössischen Spielfilm: Das Wahrnehmbar-Werden der Erde in der filmischen Post/Apokalypse

Gaia-Ästhetiken im zeitgenössischen Spielfilm: Das Wahrnehmbar-Werden...

Author: Friederike Ahrens
ISBN: 9783662681954
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Gaia-Ästhetiken entwerfen Figurationen der Erde und ihrer Lebensformen, welche die Menschen dezentrieren und den...  Read More >>

Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa

Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures...

Author: Petr Kyloušek
ISBN: 9789004691124
Format: Hardback
$227.04

How can center and periphery be recognized by ontological and axiological features? How did these features transform...  Read More >>

Fiction & the Colonial Experience

Fiction & the Colonial Experience

Author: Jeffrey Meyers
ISBN: 9781032190907
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster

Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought...

Author: Jonathan Boulter
ISBN: 9781474499620
Format: Hardback
$219.94

A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies

The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies...

Author: Helen Groth ,  Julian Murphet
ISBN: 9781399502306
Format: Hardback
$388.12

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Materialität und Medialität: Grundbedingungen einer anderen Ästhetik in der Vormoderne

Materialität und Medialität: Grundbedingungen einer...

Author: Jan Stellmann ,  Daniela Wagner
ISBN: 9783110999358
Format: Hardback
$120.03

This volume delves into the semantics and resistances of material and uses mediality to draw out the central aesthetic...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Nineteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535871884
Format: Hardback
$1425.60

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being

Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being

Author: David Marriott
ISBN: 9781503637252
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient...  Read More >>

The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England

The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England

Author: Jade Standing
ISBN: 9781032398150
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book sheds light on the reckoning and judgement of conscience by demonstrating how these concepts are explored...  Read More >>

Rereading Empathy

Rereading Empathy

Author: Professor or Dr. Emily Johansen ,  Professor or Dr. Alissa G. Karl
ISBN: 9781501376894
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines,...  Read More >>

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