Literary theory books

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Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism

Author: Professor Peggy Kamuf (University of Southern California, USA)
ISBN: 9798765132036
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores and illuminates the impact of French theorist, writer, and critic Hélène Cixous on our understanding of...  Read More >>

De Renan au Sillon. Joseph Malègue: horizons intellectuels de l'oeuvre

De Renan au Sillon. Joseph Malègue: horizons intellectuels...

Author: Katarzyna Wolowska ,  Zofia Litwinowicz-Krutnik
ISBN: 9783631914359
Format: Hardback
$179.39

De Renan au Sillon. Joseph Malègue: horizons intellectuels de l'oeuvre permet de cerner les horizons intellectuels...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda

Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda...

Author: Mathias Nordvig
ISBN: 9781032672816
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda

Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda...

Author: Mathias Nordvig
ISBN: 9781032672830
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...

Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York)
ISBN: 9781009584562
Format: Paperback
$72.45

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

Photography and Film in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Photography and Film in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee...

Author: Hermann Wittenberg (University of Western Cape)
ISBN: 9781009548342
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Scholars, students and general readers of J. M. Coetzee's novels will find this book a fascinating guide to one...  Read More >>

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Author: Stacey McDowell (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781009380423
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

William James and Literary Studies

William James and Literary Studies

Author: Kate Stanley (University of Western Ontario) ,  Kristen Case (The Monson Seminar)
ISBN: 9781009688635
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Demonstrates William James's role in the history of Anglo-American literary production and the practice of literary...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures

The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures...

Author: Xiaofan Amy Li (University College, London)
ISBN: 9781009670227
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...

Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York)
ISBN: 9781009584579
Format: Hardback
$232.88

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage

A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage

Author: Philip Gardner
ISBN: 9781032888163
Format: Paperback
$82.77

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Beckett: A Study of his Plays

Beckett: A Study of his Plays

Author: John Fletcher ,  John Spurling
ISBN: 9781032747675
Format: Paperback
$77.60

First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book...  Read More >>

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Author: Blake Morrison
ISBN: 9781032872506
Format: Paperback
$69.84

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Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction...

Author: Amy De'Ath
ISBN: 9781503644847
Format: Paperback
$73.99

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the wayour lives are shaped...  Read More >>

At the Margins of Nihilism: Deconstruction and Social Death

At the Margins of Nihilism: Deconstruction and Social...

Author: John E. Drabinski
ISBN: 9781531512378
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

Holocaust and Hope: Literature, Testimony, Media

Holocaust and Hope: Literature, Testimony, Media

Author: Geoffrey Hartman ,  Kevis Goodman
ISBN: 9781531512217
Format: Paperback
$73.99

A final work by one of our major critics, contemplating how acts of distant witnessing can continue in future generations....  Read More >>

Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination: A Cultural History of Animal Disease Management

Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination: A Cultural...

Author: Raymond Malewitz (Oregon State University)
ISBN: 9781009670173
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Written for literary and animal studies scholars, this book shows how animal illnesses influence our cultures and...  Read More >>

Basic Writing in the 21st Century

Basic Writing in the 21st Century

Author: Laura Gray-Rosendale ,  Barbara Gleason
ISBN: 9781433199561
Format: Hardback
$369.47

Basic Writing in the 21st Century is a comprehensive, cutting-edge survey of basic writing, developmental writing,...  Read More >>

Organizing Relation: Attachment Theory and Literary Criticism

Organizing Relation: Attachment Theory and Literary...

Author: Professor and Chair of English Theo Davis (Northeastern University)
ISBN: 9780197805596
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Organizing Relation investigates how attachment theory can shift major conversations in literary criticism about...  Read More >>

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