Literary theory books

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Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters

Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters...

Author: Nicholas R. Helms
ISBN: 9783030035648
Format: Hardback
$181.10

Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science to Shakespeare, applying contemporary...  Read More >>

Queer Aging in North American Fiction

Queer Aging in North American Fiction

Author: Linda M. Hess
ISBN: 9783030034658
Format: Hardback
$194.04

Exploring representations of queer aging in North American fiction, this book illuminates a rich yet previously...  Read More >>

Human Minds and Animal Stories: How Narratives Make Us Care About Other Species

Human Minds and Animal Stories: How Narratives Make...

Author: Wojciech Małecki ,  Piotr Sorokowski
ISBN: 9780367146047
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Combining psychological research with insights from animal studies, ecocriticism and other fields in the environmental...  Read More >>

Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory

Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth,...

Author: Leo Courbot
ISBN: 9789004391642
Format: Hardback
$380.16

With Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory, Leo Courbot offers the first research monograph...  Read More >>

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama,...

Author: Edwin Wong
ISBN: 9781525537561
Format: Paperback
$49.14

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The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama,...

Author: Edwin Wong
ISBN: 9781525537554
Format: Hardback
$53.02

WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly...  Read More >>

Women's Life Writing and the Practice of Reading: She Reads to Write Herself

Women's Life Writing and the Practice of Reading: She...

Author: Valérie Baisnée-Keay ,  Corinne Bigot
ISBN: 9783030091811
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This collection of essays offers a stimulating insight into the practice of reading and the relationship between...  Read More >>

Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies: On Refusing to be Realistic

Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies: On Refusing...

Author: John Storey
ISBN: 9781138706873
Format: Paperback
$81.99

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Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights

Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights...

Author: Paulo Lemos Horta
ISBN: 9780674986596
Format: Paperback
$38.95

Ranging from the coffeehouses of Aleppo to the salons of Paris, from Calcutta to London, Paulo Lemos Horta introduces...  Read More >>

On Replacement: Cultural, Social and Psychological Representations

On Replacement: Cultural, Social and Psychological Representations...

Author: Jean Owen ,  Naomi Segal
ISBN: 9783030093792
Format: Paperback
$211.17

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the human drama of replacement. On Replacement consists of 24 essays...  Read More >>

Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies: On Refusing to be Realistic

Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies: On Refusing...

Author: John Storey
ISBN: 9781138706866
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Literature and Poverty: From the Hebrew Bible to the Second World War

Literature and Poverty: From the Hebrew Bible to the...

Author: David Aberbach (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367132736
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Literature and Poverty offers a historical overview of how the perception of poverty has transformed over time....  Read More >>

New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature: The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft

New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature: The...

Author: Sean Moreland
ISBN: 9783030070427
Format: Paperback
$369.57

These essays investigate the meaning of cosmic horror before and after Lovecraft, explore his critical relevance...  Read More >>

Capturing Mariposas: Reading Cultural Schema in Gay Chicano Literature

Capturing Mariposas: Reading Cultural Schema in Gay...

Author: P Doug Bush
ISBN: 9780814213889
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Examines the role of cultural schema in readers' understanding of and identification with gay Chicano texts.  Read More >>

Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot: A Microsocial Approach

Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton,...

Author: Maya Higashi Wakana
ISBN: 9783030067663
Format: Paperback
$171.57

Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot analyzes literary reproductions of everyday...  Read More >>

Metalepse im Werk von Günter Grass: Eine Analyse der narrativen Struktur in sechs ausgewählten Romanen (1961-2010)

Metalepse im Werk von Günter Grass: Eine Analyse der...

Author: Saartje Gobyn
ISBN: 9783476048325
Format: Paperback
$158.37

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The Epic

The Epic

Author: Paul Merchant
ISBN: 9781138230866
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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Comedy

Comedy

Author: Moelwyn Merchant
ISBN: 9781138231870
Format: Paperback
$71.99

First published in 1972, this work pursues the question ‘what is comedy?’ In doing so, the book demonstrates the...  Read More >>

Revival: Genre and Void (2003): Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

Revival: Genre and Void (2003): Looking Back at Sartre...

Author: Max Deutscher
ISBN: 9781138709577
Format: Paperback
$50.99

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Modernist Time Ecology

Modernist Time Ecology

Author: Jesse Matz (Chair, Department of English, Kenyon College)
ISBN: 9781421426990
Format: Hardback
$124.00

Modernist Time Ecology is a deeply interdisciplinary book that changes what we think literature and the arts can...  Read More >>

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