Literary theory books

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Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture

Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Annie McClanahan
ISBN: 9781503606586
Format: Paperback
$73.92

This book makes sense of the social, political, and conceptual consequences of the 2008 credit crisis by looking...  Read More >>

The Taming of the Text: Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture

The Taming of the Text: Explorations in Language, Literature...

Author: Willie Van Peer (University of Calgary, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138683389
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The contributors of this text provide a dynamic view of the social functioning of texts, taking account of linguistic,...  Read More >>

Black Literature and Literary Theory

Black Literature and Literary Theory

Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr
ISBN: 9781138683808
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Language, Thought and Comprehension: A Study of the Writings of I. A. Richards

Language, Thought and Comprehension: A Study of the...

Author: W. H. N. Hotopf
ISBN: 9781138685147
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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The Languages of Literature: Some Linguistic Contributions to Criticism

The Languages of Literature: Some Linguistic Contributions...

Author: Roger Fowler
ISBN: 9781138685635
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Gadamer and Hermeneutics: Science, Culture, Literature

Gadamer and Hermeneutics: Science, Culture, Literature...

Author: Hugh J. Silverman
ISBN: 9781138685789
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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The Future of Literary Theory

The Future of Literary Theory

Author: Ralph Cohen
ISBN: 9781138689572
Format: Paperback
$79.99

In this book, first published in 1989, twenty-give eminent critics and theorists write about different aspects of...  Read More >>

The Reader's Construction of Narrative

The Reader's Construction of Narrative

Author: Horst Ruthrof
ISBN: 9781138684638
Format: Paperback
$62.99

In this book, first published in 1981, the author argues that narrative is an interaction between ""the presented...  Read More >>

E. M. Forster as Critic

E. M. Forster as Critic

Author: Rukun Advani
ISBN: 9781138683983
Format: Paperback
$56.99

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A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms: Revised and Enlarged Edition

A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms: Revised and Enlarged...

Author: Roger Fowler
ISBN: 9781138683907
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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British Post-Structuralism: Since 1968

British Post-Structuralism: Since 1968

Author: Antony Easthope
ISBN: 9781138685390
Format: Paperback
$35.99

Through this exploration of the relation between Marxism, post-structuralism and the theory of the subject, first...  Read More >>

Essays in Modern Stylistics

Essays in Modern Stylistics

Author: Donald Freeman
ISBN: 9781138685703
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Genetic Codes of Culture?: The Deconstruction of Tradition by Kuhn, Bloom, and Derrida

Genetic Codes of Culture?: The Deconstruction of Tradition...

Author: William R. Schultz
ISBN: 9781138689770
Format: Paperback
$50.99

In this text, first published in 1994, the author examines the interdisciplinary significance of the theory of science,...  Read More >>

Unfolding the Mind: The Unconscious in American Romanticism and Literary Theory

Unfolding the Mind: The Unconscious in American Romanticism...

Author: Jeffrey Steele
ISBN: 9781138693678
Format: Paperback
$56.99

American writers in the 1830s and 1840s felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception...  Read More >>

Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts

Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts

Author: J. R. de J. Jackson
ISBN: 9781138683457
Format: Paperback
$71.99

In this original and significant contribution to literary controversy, Professor Jackson argues on semantic grounds...  Read More >>

Literature as Communication and Cognition in Bakhtin and Lotman

Literature as Communication and Cognition in Bakhtin...

Author: Allan Reid
ISBN: 9781138693593
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This title, first published in 1990, argues for the existence of a significant connection between the theories of...  Read More >>

Nature and Language: A Semiotic Study of Cucurbits in Literature

Nature and Language: A Semiotic Study of Cucurbits in...

Author: Ralf Norrman ,  Jon Haarberg (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781138683419
Format: Paperback
$71.99

There exists an area of overlap where language and nature meet, and this book, first published in 1980, illuminates...  Read More >>

The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes

The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes

Author: Mary Bittner Wiseman
ISBN: 9781138684553
Format: Paperback
$79.99

In this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman interprets Roland Barthes’s experiments as efforts to...  Read More >>

A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning: Linguistics, Semiotics and Discourse Theory

A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning: Linguistics,...

Author: Ronald Schleifer, Ph.D
ISBN: 9781138684058
Format: Paperback
$79.99

In this book, first published in 1987, Professor Schleifer sets Greimas’ work in its intellectual context and sets...  Read More >>

Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism

Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism

Author: Sibel Irzik
ISBN: 9781138685017
Format: Paperback
$52.99

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Speech Acts and Literary Theory

Speech Acts and Literary Theory

Author: Sandy Petrey
ISBN: 9781138689749
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with...  Read More >>

Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience

Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience

Author: Peter Szendy ,  Jan Plug
ISBN: 9780823278114
Format: Hardback
$190.08

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The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh

The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and...

Author: Sneharika Roy
ISBN: 9781138063631
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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