Literary theory books

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Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror

Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror

Author: Francesca Arnavas
ISBN: 9781032516790
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and...  Read More >>

Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology

Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology

Author: Timothy Morton
ISBN: 9780231214711
Format: Paperback
$44.95

Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity...  Read More >>

Nafssiya, or Edward Said's Affective Phenomenology of Racism

Nafssiya, or Edward Said's Affective Phenomenology of...

Author: Norman Saadi Nikro
ISBN: 9783031517686
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book adapts the Arabic term nafsiyya to trace the phenomenological contours of Edward Said’s analysis of the...  Read More >>

Literature, Education, and Society: Bridging the Gap

Literature, Education, and Society: Bridging the Gap...

Author: Charles F. Altieri
ISBN: 9781032393179
Format: Paperback
$35.99

Literature, Education, and Society argues that we must defend our differences from those practical disciplines by...  Read More >>

Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

Author: Brian Russell Graham
ISBN: 9781032379197
Format: Paperback
$35.99

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on...  Read More >>

Rilke’s Hands: An Essay on Gentleness

Rilke’s Hands: An Essay on Gentleness

Author: Harold Schweizer
ISBN: 9781032385099
Format: Paperback
$35.99

This is a book of meditative reading with an aim to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades...  Read More >>

Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology

Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology

Author: Timothy Morton
ISBN: 9780231214704
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity...  Read More >>

Gezählte Beachtung: Theorien des Populären

Gezählte Beachtung: Theorien des Populären

Author: Thomas Hecken
ISBN: 9783662686942
Format: Paperback
$224.37

Theorien des Populären setzen bisher oftmals bei sozialen Verhältnissen an (z.B. populäre Kultur als Kultur der...  Read More >>

We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump

We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from...

Author: Douglas Dowland
ISBN: 9780813950846
Format: Paperback
$77.88

When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that...  Read More >>

Hyperobject Reading, Scale Variance, and American Fiction in the Anthropocene

Hyperobject Reading, Scale Variance, and American Fiction...

Author: Chingshun J. Sheu
ISBN: 9783031256417
Format: Paperback
$343.17

2024 Ming Chuan University Research Award This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that...  Read More >>

Critical Theory and Dystopia

Critical Theory and Dystopia

Author: Patricia McManus (Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural History)
ISBN: 9781526139757
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both...  Read More >>

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies

Author: Zekiye Antakyalioglu ,  Evrim Dogan Adanur
ISBN: 9781666913897
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies brings to attention the post-theoretical discussions on the changing...  Read More >>

Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature

Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and...

Author: Heiko Wiggers
ISBN: 9781648898976
Format: Hardback
$242.88

The articles featured in this volume will appeal to students and instructors of Germanic Linguistics alike as well...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing

The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing

Author: Maria Joaquina Villaseñor ,  Christine J. Fernández
ISBN: 9781032225746
Format: Hardback
$431.00

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study...  Read More >>

Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis

Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis...

Author: Julia Kristeva
ISBN: 9780231216777
Format: Paperback
$39.95

A thorough examination of the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers—Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes—affirm...  Read More >>

Animals and Science Fiction

Animals and Science Fiction

Author: Nora Castle ,  Giulia Champion
ISBN: 9783031416941
Format: Hardback
$422.37

Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal...  Read More >>

Comic Drama: The European Heritage

Comic Drama: The European Heritage

Author: W. D. Howarth
ISBN: 9781032216775
Format: Paperback
$58.99

Ever since comedies were first performed, the definition of the term ‘comedy’ has been debated by both playwrights...  Read More >>

The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games

The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games

Author: Dr Gabriele Aroni (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Paul Bouissac (University of Toronto Canada)
ISBN: 9781350341722
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds...  Read More >>

Un-Mapping the Global South

Un-Mapping the Global South

Author: Gero Bauer ,  Nicole Hirschfelder
ISBN: 9781032727462
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions...  Read More >>

Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics

Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics...

Author: Dilip M Menon ,  Amir Taha
ISBN: 9781032727479
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation;...  Read More >>

Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics

Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics...

Author: Dilip M Menon ,  Amir Taha
ISBN: 9781032159164
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation;...  Read More >>

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