Literary theory books

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus

Author: Rebecca Kennedy
ISBN: 9789004249325
Format: Hardback
$641.52

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been revisioned...  Read More >>

Better Criticism: Ten Commandments for a Dying Art

Better Criticism: Ten Commandments for a Dying Art

Author: Chris Tookey
ISBN: 9781911593102
Format: Paperback
$46.55

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Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII

Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII...

Author: Jacques Lacan ,  Jacques-Alain Miller
ISBN: 9781509523603
Format: Paperback
$36.95

""Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into...  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression: A Reconsideration of Metalepsis

J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression:...

Author: Alexandra Effe
ISBN: 9783319601007
Format: Hardback
$263.97

This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship,...  Read More >>

Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation

Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation

Author: Peter Mack
ISBN: 9783319601571
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This book aims to help readers interpret, and reflect on, their reading more effectively.  Read More >>

Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition

Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative,...

Author: Mieke Bal
ISBN: 9781442628342
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative texts, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory on Narrative,...  Read More >>

From Brown to Bunter: The Life and Death of the School Story

From Brown to Bunter: The Life and Death of the School...

Author: P. W. Musgrave
ISBN: 9781138953239
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World

Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World

Author: Joseph Bristow (UCLA, USA)
ISBN: 9781138953147
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Originally published in 1991. Focusing on ‘boys' own’ literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct...  Read More >>

Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and Culture

Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and...

Author: Rachael Gilmour (Queen Mary, University of London, UK.) ,  Tamar Steinitz (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138120532
Format: Hardback
$347.00

This book shows how concepts of ‘language’ and ‘multilingualism’ look different when viewed from varied locations,...  Read More >>

The Work of Literature

The Work of Literature

Author: Derek Attridge (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of York)
ISBN: 9780198798903
Format: Paperback
$67.95

The Work of Literature presents a fresh approach to the question of the value of literature, posing and responding...  Read More >>

The Traditional Theory of Literature

The Traditional Theory of Literature

Author: Ray Livingston
ISBN: 9781376189599
Format: Paperback
$30.92

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

British Working-Class Fiction: Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle Against Work

British Working-Class Fiction: Narratives of Refusal...

Author: Roberto del Valle Alcalá (Uppsala University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781350044593
Format: Paperback
$76.99

British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s...  Read More >>

Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism

Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism...

Author: Rosemary Hennessy
ISBN: 9781138283619
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This 2nd edition includes a new introductory essay highlighting the key developments in intersecting scholarship...  Read More >>

Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness

Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness

Author: Professor Sandor Goodhart (Purdue University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501326936
Format: Hardback
$260.00

“I died at Auschwitz,” French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts, “and nobody knows it.” Möbian Nights: Reading Literature...  Read More >>

The Two Lolitas

The Two Lolitas

Author: Michael Maar ,  Perry Anderson
ISBN: 9781786631848
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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