Literary theory books

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Rethinking Metonymy: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson

Rethinking Metonymy: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice...

Author: Sebastian Matzner (Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780198724285
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Rethinking Metonymy is the first monograph to confront and resolve issues surrounding problematic appropriations...  Read More >>

Power and Class in Political Fiction: Elite Theory and the Post-War Washington Novel

Power and Class in Political Fiction: Elite Theory and...

Author: David Smit
ISBN: 9783030267681
Format: Hardback
$168.16

This book introduces Elite Theory to the literary study of class as a framework for addressing issues of the nature...  Read More >>

Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory

Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory...

Author: Daniel Punday
ISBN: 9780814214084
Format: Hardback
$152.53

Argues that digital media allows us to see unresolved tensions, ambiguities, and gaps in core narrative concepts,...  Read More >>

Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections: Imagological Readings

Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections: Imagological...

Author: Mustafa Kirca ,  Mustafa Kirca
ISBN: 9781527539952
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This volume investigates identity discourses and self-constructions/de-constructions in various texts through imagological...  Read More >>

Email

Email

Author: Professor Randy Malamud (Georgia State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501341908
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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Magnet

Magnet

Author: Eva Barbarossa (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781501348754
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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

Hashtag

Hashtag

Author: Prof Elizabeth Losh (William and Mary, USA)
ISBN: 9781501344275
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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The Critic as Amateur

The Critic as Amateur

Author: Professor Saikat Majumdar (Professor of English and Creative Writing, Ashoka University, India) ,  Prof Aarthi Vadde (Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of English, Duke University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501341410
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur...  Read More >>

Varieties of Musical Irony: From Mozart to Mahler

Varieties of Musical Irony: From Mozart to Mahler

Author: Michael Cherlin (University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9781316506516
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Tracing the development of irony in language and expression, the book contemplates irony's relationship with music...  Read More >>

Cloneliness: On the Reproduction of Loneliness

Cloneliness: On the Reproduction of Loneliness

Author: Prof Michael O'Sullivan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781501344824
Format: Hardback
$220.00

""Examines how loneliness-in an age of social networks, biopolitical capital, the rankings knowledge economy, and...  Read More >>

Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers

Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative...

Author: Dr Janelle Adsit (Assistant Professor, Humboldt State University, USA) ,  Professor Renée M. Byrd (Humboldt State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350065734
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Is it okay to write about people of other genders, races and identities? And how do I do this responsibly? Whether...  Read More >>

The Critic as Amateur

The Critic as Amateur

Author: Professor Saikat Majumdar (Professor of English and Creative Writing, Ashoka University, India) ,  Prof Aarthi Vadde (Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of English, Duke University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501341403
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur...  Read More >>

Reading and Mental Health

Reading and Mental Health

Author: Josie Billington
ISBN: 9783030217617
Format: Hardback
$413.97

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Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction

Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction

Author: Elizabeth Alsop
ISBN: 9780814214077
Format: Hardback
$171.47

Uncovers the diversified role dialogue played in early twentieth-century fiction.  Read More >>

Counterfactual Romanticism

Counterfactual Romanticism

Author: Damian Walford Davies
ISBN: 9781784991418
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism

The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism

Author: Keith Newlin (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Wilmington)
ISBN: 9780190642891
Format: Hardback
$462.00

The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a...  Read More >>

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