Literary theory books

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Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of ""Homo Economicus""

Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History...

Author: Sarah Comyn
ISBN: 9783030068349
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of ‘Homo Economicus’ provides a transhistorical account of homo...  Read More >>

The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers

The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from...

Author: Michael Herren (, Lecturer at York University and the University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780190936723
Format: Paperback
$78.95

The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the methods of interpreting authoritative myths from the Presocratic...  Read More >>

Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives

Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural,...

Author: Dominik Ohrem ,  Matthew Calarco
ISBN: 9783030064464
Format: Paperback
$263.97

This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural,...  Read More >>

Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England

Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England

Author: Jane Partner
ISBN: 9783030100063
Format: Paperback
$316.77

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Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara

Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature:...

Author: Sara L. Crosby
ISBN: 9783030071974
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist...  Read More >>

The Gestalt Shift in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories

The Gestalt Shift in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories...

Author: Michael J. Crowe
ISBN: 9783030074784
Format: Paperback
$171.57

This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Introduction to Satire

The Cambridge Introduction to Satire

Author: Jonathan Greenberg (Montclair State University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781107682054
Format: Paperback
$72.45

A new history of satire that brings foundational scholarship up to date with the theoretical and historical insights...  Read More >>

Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts

Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature...

Author: George M. Johnson ,  G Johnson
ISBN: 9781349673476
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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The Cambridge Introduction to Satire

The Cambridge Introduction to Satire

Author: Jonathan Greenberg (Montclair State University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781107030183
Format: Hardback
$238.05

A new history of satire that brings foundational scholarship up to date with the theoretical and historical insights...  Read More >>

Cheiron's Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy

Cheiron's Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy...

Author: Justina Gregory (Sophia Smith Professor Emerita of Classical Languages and Literatures, Sophia Smith Professor Emerita of Classical Languages and Literatures, Smith College)
ISBN: 9780190857882
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful characters in Greek epic and tragedy. It investigates...  Read More >>

Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery

Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery...

Author: Keith Williams ,  Sophie Aymes
ISBN: 9789004361102
Format: Hardback
$427.68

Art and Science in Word and Image explores how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently across...  Read More >>

Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story

Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the...

Author: Reuven Snir
ISBN: 9789004390676
Format: Hardback
$831.60

Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story offers an account of the development of the...  Read More >>

Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite

Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman...

Author: Ruben Borg
ISBN: 9789004390348
Format: Hardback
$364.32

Focusing on a recurring theme in twentieth-century film and literature, the fantasy of surviving one’s own death,...  Read More >>

Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms

Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms...

Author: Jeffrey Bilbro
ISBN: 9780813176406
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Return to the Church of England

The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s...

Author: Christopher Corbin
ISBN: 9780367141431
Format: Hardback
$305.00

When Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church of England, he did...  Read More >>

Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference

Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference...

Author: Tanja Dreher ,  Anshuman A. Mondal
ISBN: 9783030067557
Format: Paperback
$237.57

This edited collection focuses on the ethics, politics and practices of responsiveness in the context of racism,...  Read More >>

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