Literary theory books

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Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness

Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness...

Author: Jonathan Kramnick
ISBN: 9780226573014
Format: Hardback
$163.95

A study of the knowledge we can glean about perception and consciousness through the study of literature.  Read More >>

Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry

Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative...

Author: Thorlac Turville-Petre (Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781786941435
Format: Hardback
$396.00

A stylistic and historical study of one of the most celebrated features of Middle English alliterative poetry, the...  Read More >>

The Occidentocentric Fallacy: Turning Literature into a Province

The Occidentocentric Fallacy: Turning Literature into...

Author: Igor Grbić
ISBN: 9781527513068
Format: Hardback
$263.87

What is literature? The question is difficult enough in itself. However, the West has made any hope of a proper...  Read More >>

Women's Writing of the First World War

Women's Writing of the First World War

Author: Emma Liggins ,  Elizabeth Nolan
ISBN: 9781138599451
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Excursion and Wordsworth’s Iconography

The Excursion and Wordsworth’s Iconography

Author: Brandon C. Yen
ISBN: 9781786941336
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities: The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics

A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry...

Author: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
ISBN: 9783319872834
Format: Paperback
$263.97

This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges...  Read More >>

Nancy, Blanchot: A Serious Controversy

Nancy, Blanchot: A Serious Controversy

Author: Leslie Hill
ISBN: 9781786608888
Format: Paperback
$115.00

This book offers the first fully documented and historically contextualised account of the origins and implications...  Read More >>

Stolen Life

Stolen Life

Author: Fred Moten
ISBN: 9780822370437
Format: Hardback
$284.99

In Stolen Life--the second volume in his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being--Fred Moten engages with...  Read More >>

Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature

Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature...

Author: Margaret R. Higonnet
ISBN: 9781501727948
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Criticism

The Ethics of Criticism

Author: Tobin Siebers
ISBN: 9781501728112
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Author: Laurie A. Finke
ISBN: 9781501727818
Format: Paperback
$44.75

In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie...  Read More >>

Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship

Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship

Author: Peggy Kamuf
ISBN: 9781501726361
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Nancy, Blanchot: A Serious Controversy

Nancy, Blanchot: A Serious Controversy

Author: Leslie Hill
ISBN: 9781786608871
Format: Hardback
$341.00

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Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies

Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America:...

Author: James E. Dobson
ISBN: 9783319884127
Format: Paperback
$158.37

This book examines temporal and formal disruptions found in American autobiographical narratives produced during...  Read More >>

Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture: Studies in Erotic Epistemology

Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture: Studies...

Author: James D. Bloom
ISBN: 9783319867403
Format: Paperback
$316.77

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Creative Writing with Critical Theory: Inhabitation

Creative Writing with Critical Theory: Inhabitation...

Author: Dominique Hecq ,  Julian Novitz
ISBN: 9781780240688
Format: Paperback
$110.04

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Fashioning England and the English: Literature, Nation, Gender

Fashioning England and the English: Literature, Nation,...

Author: Rahel Orgis ,  Matthias Heim
ISBN: 9783319921259
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book explores how literary texts envision England and respond to discourses and conceptions of Englishness...  Read More >>

Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health

Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental...

Author: Elizabeth J. Donaldson
ISBN: 9783319926650
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies,...  Read More >>

Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University

Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University...

Author: Jeff Rice ,  Brian McNely
ISBN: 9781643170176
Format: Paperback
$67.27

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Revision and the Superhero Genre

Revision and the Superhero Genre

Author: David Hyman
ISBN: 9783319878645
Format: Paperback
$158.37

This book argues that superhero revision offers new perspectives on the theory and practice of revision in broader...  Read More >>

Stolen Life

Stolen Life

Author: Fred Moten
ISBN: 9780822370581
Format: Paperback
$76.43

In Stolen Life--the second volume in his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being--Fred Moten engages with...  Read More >>

Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University

Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University...

Author: Jeff Rice ,  Brian McNely
ISBN: 9781643170183
Format: Hardback
$131.96

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The Law of Desire: On Lacan’s 'Kant with Sade’

The Law of Desire: On Lacan’s 'Kant with Sade’

Author: Dany Nobus
ISBN: 9783319856148
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan’s Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one...  Read More >>

Romantic Shades and Shadows

Romantic Shades and Shadows

Author: Susan J. Wolfson (Professor of English, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9781421425542
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Romantic Shades and Shadows is written with a lucidity, wit, and accessibility that will appeal to general readers,...  Read More >>

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