Literary theory books

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Imagining Solar Energy: The Power of the Sun in Literature, Science and Culture

Imagining Solar Energy: The Power of the Sun in Literature,...

Author: Dr Gregory Lynall (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781350237469
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Shortlisted for the 2022 ESSE Book Awards How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles...  Read More >>

The Fictional Minds of Modernism: Narrative Cognition from Henry James to Christopher Isherwood

The Fictional Minds of Modernism: Narrative Cognition...

Author: Prof Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
ISBN: 9781501373701
Format: Paperback
$64.99

""Rethinks the ways that modernist narratives may be read as resources for understanding cognition and theory of...  Read More >>

Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel

Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel

Author: Professor Debra Shostak (The College of Wooster, USA)
ISBN: 9781501386008
Format: Paperback
$64.99

""Investigates the unstable construction of white masculinity in the United States through close analysis of father-child...  Read More >>

Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space

Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space

Author: Professor Stephen Prickett (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781501372469
Format: Hardback
$60.00

Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary...  Read More >>

El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías: Los ojos de la mente

El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías:...

Author: Carmen María López López
ISBN: 9789004426634
Format: Hardback
$372.24

El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías: los ojos de la mente ofrece una nueva perspectiva sobre el...  Read More >>

Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884

Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884...

Author: Seth T. Reno
ISBN: 9783030532482
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Situated at the interaction of literary studies, environmental studies, and science studies, Early Anthropocene...  Read More >>

The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism

The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism

Author: Stephan Delbos
ISBN: 9783030773519
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book examines Donald M. Allen’s crucially influential poetry anthology The New American Poetry, 1945–1960 from...  Read More >>

Cruel Optimism

Cruel Optimism

Author: Lauren Berlant ,  Amanda McKibbin
ISBN: 9781713647157
Format: Audio
$79.17

Ties together political economy and affect in a time of decreased expectations.  Read More >>

Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 1, Epic, Historiography, Religion

Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 1, Epic, Historiography,...

Author: Denis Feeney (Princeton University, New Jersey) ,  Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9781108481861
Format: Hardback
$256.16

A collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient...  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: 9781410396211
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 >>

Medialitat Und Materialitat 'Grosser Narrative': Religiose (Re-)Formationen

Medialitat Und Materialitat 'Grosser Narrative': Religiose...

Author: Manfred Kern ,  Thomas Kuhtreiber
ISBN: 9783825347871
Format: Hardback
$182.16

Narrative sind grundlegende Konstituenten sozialer Identitaten, die innerhalb von Gemeinschaften traditionsbildend...  Read More >>

Milton's Poetical Thought: The Literary Agenda

Milton's Poetical Thought: The Literary Agenda

Author: Maggie Kilgour (Molson Professor of English, McGill University)
ISBN: 9780198808824
Format: Paperback
$38.95

At a time when literature is thought to have limited value in a world dominated by scientific thinking, this volume...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Matter: A Meditation

The Philosophy of Matter: A Meditation

Author: Rick Dolphijn (Assistant Professor Department of Media and Culture Studies, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350211902
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The Philosophy of Matter is a journey in thinking through the material fate of the earth itself; its surfaces and...  Read More >>

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Studies in Reception

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Studies in...

Author: Jakub Lipski
ISBN: 9780367716370
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new...  Read More >>

The Future Is Fat: Theorizing Time in Relation to Body Weight and Stigma

The Future Is Fat: Theorizing Time in Relation to Body...

Author: Jen Rinaldi (Ontario Tech University) ,  May Friedman (Ryerson University)
ISBN: 9780367714932
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The Future is Fat reimagines understandings of time to allow for new expressions of fat experience.  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer

The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer

Author: Robert Dostal (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781108816298
Format: Paperback
$75.04

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) is widely recognized as the leading exponent of philosophical hermeneutics. This...  Read More >>

Hyphen

Hyphen

Author: Dr. Pardis Mahdavi (Arizona State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501373909
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and...

Author: Chris Campbell ,  Michael Niblett
ISBN: 9783030761547
Format: Hardback
$310.47

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Matter: A Meditation

The Philosophy of Matter: A Meditation

Author: Rick Dolphijn (Assistant Professor Department of Media and Culture Studies, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350211896
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The Philosophy of Matter is a journey in thinking through the material fate of the earth itself; its surfaces and...  Read More >>

Surrealism

Surrealism

Author: Natalya Lusty (University of Melbourne)
ISBN: 9781108495684
Format: Hardback
$240.64

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