Literary theory books

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Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-air Performance

Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-air Performance...

Author: Dr Evelyn O'Malley (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350078062
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Winner of the ASLE-UKI 2022 Book Prize From The Pastoral Players’ 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary...  Read More >>

Reading

Reading

Author: Vincent Quinn (University of Sussex, UK) ,  Vincent Quinn
ISBN: 9780415426411
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Reading is literary criticism's fundamental tool. More significantly, our identities and intelligences are formed...  Read More >>

Ulysses by Numbers

Ulysses by Numbers

Author: Eric Jon Bulson
ISBN: 9780231186056
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Ulysses has been read obsessively for a century. What if instead of focusing on the words to understand the structure,...  Read More >>

To the Victor, the Potatoes!

To the Victor, the Potatoes!

Author: Roberto Schwarz
ISBN: 9781642593440
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Newly available in English, a magisterial work by one of the world's most esteemed Marxist literary critics.  Read More >>

Nietzsche’s Circles and Cycles: The Symbolic Structure of Eternal Recurrence in Thus Spoke Zarathustra""

Nietzsche’s Circles and Cycles: The Symbolic Structure...

Author: Ivan Zhavoronkov
ISBN: 9781433180149
Format: Hardback
$313.50

This book argues that Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra employs circular and cyclical symbols to communicate both...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

Author: Jessica Gildersleeve
ISBN: 9780367643560
Format: Hardback
$462.00

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Literature Goes to the Movies

Literature Goes to the Movies

Author: Karin Littau (University of Essex, UK)
ISBN: 9780415680912
Format: Hardback
$168.00

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Introducing Electronic Literature

Introducing Electronic Literature

Author: Charles Baldwin (West Virginia University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138806566
Format: Hardback
$179.00

Electronic Literature is rapidly emerging as an exciting field which is changing the way that contemporary literature...  Read More >>

Ulysses by Numbers

Ulysses by Numbers

Author: Eric Jon Bulson
ISBN: 9780231186049
Format: Hardback
$182.95

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Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary...

Author: Justyna Poray-Wybranowska
ISBN: 9780367528966
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel displaces conventional ways of thinking about...  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: 9781410396112
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

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

The Nietzschean Mind

The Nietzschean Mind

Author: Paul Katsafanas
ISBN: 9780367735227
Format: Paperback
$98.99

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Kipling and Yeats at 150: Retrospectives/Perspectives

Kipling and Yeats at 150: Retrospectives/Perspectives...

Author: Promodini Varma ,  Anubhav Pradhan
ISBN: 9780367728328
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and...  Read More >>

Gaming Empire in Children's British Board Games, 1836-1860

Gaming Empire in Children's British Board Games, 1836-1860...

Author: Megan A. Norcia
ISBN: 9780367731298
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and...  Read More >>

Annotating Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial

Annotating Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial...

Author: Vijay Mishra
ISBN: 9780367734428
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book looks at ways of reading, uncovering and recovering meanings in postcolonial writing in English through...  Read More >>

Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature

Author: Henry Gifford
ISBN: 9780367550691
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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Kristeva in America: Re-Imagining the Exceptional

Kristeva in America: Re-Imagining the Exceptional

Author: Carol Mastrangelo Bové
ISBN: 9783030599119
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva’s work on American literary and film studies.  Chapters consider...  Read More >>

Parnell and his Times

Parnell and his Times

Author: Joep Leerssen (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781108495264
Format: Hardback
$93.15

Marked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 1910–1920 was a period of revolutionary...  Read More >>

Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure': Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle

Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure': Positive...

Author: Anne Stiles (Saint Louis University, Missouri)
ISBN: 9781108830942
Format: Hardback
$214.76

Positive thinking is good for you. Analysing nineteenth-century literature through the pervading lens of New Thought,...  Read More >>

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