Literary theory books

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The Life-Death Instinct: Feeling Through Creative-Clinical Moments

The Life-Death Instinct: Feeling Through Creative-Clinical...

Author: Neil Maizels
ISBN: 9781032428932
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is a multi-layered presentation of the clinical and theoretical work of Neil Maizels as it has evolved...  Read More >>

Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing

Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing

Author: Dr. Tasha Haines (Independent Scholar, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781501394508
Format: Hardback
$150.00

"""From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' - a new way of reading texts full...  Read More >>

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction: Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction: Race,...

Author: Prof Nicole Simek (Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies, Whitman College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501377655
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century...  Read More >>

The """German Illusion""": Germany and Jewish-German Motifs in Hélène Cixous’s Late Work

The """German Illusion""": Germany and Jewish-German...

Author: Professor or Dr. Olivier Morel ,  Prof Imke Meyer
ISBN: 9798765107379
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""Examines Jewish-German ""tropes"" in Hâeláene Cixous's oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist,...  Read More >>

Faulkner’s Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing

Faulkner’s Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing...

Author: Professor Christopher Rieger
ISBN: 9798765103944
Format: Hardback
$150.00

"""The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkner's novels and short stories""--"  Read More >>

Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime

Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime

Author: Odile Ferly ,  Tegan Zimmerman
ISBN: 9783031321108
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical...  Read More >>

For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics

For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics...

Author: Rachel Jane Carroll
ISBN: 9781479826735
Format: Paperback
$68.99

"""For Pleasure argues that aesthetic pleasure and formal experimentalism hold the twinned capacity to maintain...  Read More >>

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference

Author: Jennifer Yusin
ISBN: 9781032431659
Format: Paperback
$62.99

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyses the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference...  Read More >>

Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII

Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII...

Author: Nadia T. van Pelt (Lecturer, Lecturer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780192863454
Format: Paperback
$40.95

In this new addition to the Oxford Textual Perspectives series, Nadia van Pelt takes the reader along to the dazzling...  Read More >>

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference

Author: Jennifer Yusin
ISBN: 9781032431932
Format: Hardback
$273.00

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyses the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference...  Read More >>

Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond Roland Barthes

Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text:...

Author: Hugues Azérad ,  Marion Schmid
ISBN: 9781803740331
Format: Paperback
$116.44

This collection argues that Roland Barthes has much to teach us about intermediality. Analysing works by Breton,...  Read More >>

For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics

For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics...

Author: Rachel Jane Carroll
ISBN: 9781479826728
Format: Hardback
$203.00

"""For Pleasure argues that aesthetic pleasure and formal experimentalism hold the twinned capacity to maintain...  Read More >>

Modern Character: 1888-1905

Modern Character: 1888-1905

Author: Julian Murphet (Jury Chair of English Language and Literature, Jury Chair of English Language and Literature, University of Adelaide)
ISBN: 9780192863126
Format: Hardback
$188.95

In this groundbreaking and comprehensive study, Julian Murphet examines how dramatists and prose writers at the...  Read More >>

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition:...

Author: Aleida Auld
ISBN: 9781032344546
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative...  Read More >>

The German Model in Romanian Culture / Das deutsche Vorbild in der rumaenischen Kultur

The German Model in Romanian Culture / Das deutsche...

Author: Maria Sass ,  Ovio Olaru
ISBN: 9783631910313
Format: Hardback
$129.38

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Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond

Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond...

Author: Matthew Omelsky
ISBN: 9781478025382
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black art to outline...  Read More >>

Animals in Detective Fiction

Animals in Detective Fiction

Author: Ruth Hawthorn ,  John Miller
ISBN: 9783031092435
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond

Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond...

Author: Matthew Omelsky
ISBN: 9781478020615
Format: Hardback
$277.07

Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black art to outline...  Read More >>

FANTASY,REALITY OR DELUSION?: A COLLECTION OF SHORT AND POEMS

FANTASY,REALITY OR DELUSION?: A COLLECTION OF SHORT...

Author: JYOTSNA PATHAK
ISBN: 9789357029278
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Jyotsna Pathak piercingly shows the realities people can’t accept, the fantasies they give in to and the resulting...  Read More >>

Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion

Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion

Author: Kent L. Brintnall ,  Rhiannon Graybill
ISBN: 9780367313494
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book takes the ground-breaking work of Lee Edelman in queer theory and for the first time demonstrates its...  Read More >>

Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies

Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies

Author: Professor Jonathan Kramnick
ISBN: 9780226830537
Format: Paperback
$32.95

A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice—close reading....  Read More >>

Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies

Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies

Author: Professor Jonathan Kramnick
ISBN: 9780226830520
Format: Hardback
$163.95

A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice—close reading....  Read More >>

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