Literary theory books

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Literature and Truth: Imaginative Writing as a Medium for Ideas

Literature and Truth: Imaginative Writing as a Medium...

Author: Richard Lansdown
ISBN: 9789004356849
Format: Hardback
$403.92

In Literature and Truth Richard Lansdown examines the relation of literature to truth by tracing the presence of...  Read More >>

In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor

In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire...

Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor ,  Deborah Devonshire
ISBN: 9781681371863
Format: Paperback
$50.03

""First published in Great Britain in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers).""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

Economics and Literature: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach

Economics and Literature: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary...

Author: Ҫınla Akdere (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) ,  Christine Baron (University of Poitiers, France)
ISBN: 9781138294356
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Conflicts of economic interest have social, political and moral causes and consequences. This book shows how economic...  Read More >>

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The...

Author: Marc Kalinowski ,  Donald Harper
ISBN: 9789004310193
Format: Hardback
$575.52

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the daybook manuscripts found...  Read More >>

Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times

Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times...

Author: Tobias Menely (University of California, Davis) ,  Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780271078724
Format: Hardback
$217.00

Considers the implications of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which a human “signature” appears...  Read More >>

Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival

Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive...

Author: Katie Gentile (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781138462090
Format: Hardback
$357.00

Hannah wrote 18 diaries between the ages of 14 and 32. This work offers the excerpts that help you watch Hannah...  Read More >>

Scar

Scar

Author: Sara Mesa ,  Adriana Nodal-Tarafa
ISBN: 9781943150274
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Sonia meets Knut in an online literary forum and begins a long-distance relationship with him that turns to obsession....  Read More >>

Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing

Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities...

Author: Peter D. McDonald (Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford and Fellow, St Hugh's College)
ISBN: 9780198725152
Format: Hardback
$101.95

Explores the relationship between literature and international relations and considers how writing resists norms...  Read More >>

Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to the Present

Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust...

Author: Simon Kemp
ISBN: 9781138710269
Format: Hardback
$336.00

""My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking.""...  Read More >>

Reception

Reception

Author: Ika Willis (University of Wollongong, Australia) ,  John Drakakis
ISBN: 9781138955103
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Reception introduces students and academics alike to the study of the way in which texts are received by readers,...  Read More >>

Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance

Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance...

Author: Aaron Hostetter
ISBN: 9780814254424
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Eating is fundamental to human survival, obtained by and resulting in much social struggle. Political Appetites...  Read More >>

Homer Und Die Frühen Griechen

Homer Und Die Frühen Griechen

Author: Barbara Patzek
ISBN: 9783110468762
Format: Paperback
$76.53

Barbara Patzek offers students a concise overview of a central theme in Greek history while introducing historiographical...  Read More >>

Reception

Reception

Author: Ika Willis (University of Wollongong, Australia) ,  John Drakakis
ISBN: 9781138955097
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Reception introduces students and academics alike to the study of the way in which texts are received by readers,...  Read More >>

Die ""Carmina profana"" des Dracontius: Prolegomena und kritischer Kommentar zur Editio Teubneriana. Mit einem Anhang: Dracontius und die 'Aegritudo Perdicae'

Die ""Carmina profana"" des Dracontius: Prolegomena...

Author: Otto Zwierlein
ISBN: 9783110522372
Format: Hardback
$231.57

In this companion volume to the new Editio Teubneriana of Carmina Profana by Dracontius (ca. 480-510 CE), the first...  Read More >>

Schiller und die Philosophische Anthropologie des 20. Jahrhunderts: Ein ideengeschichtlicher Brückenschlag

Schiller und die Philosophische Anthropologie des 20....

Author: Carina Middel
ISBN: 9783110521467
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Seen from the perspective of philosophical anthropology, Schiller's philosophy is a modern anthropology of crisis,...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Nineteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781410330451
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-Century authors of all...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Nineteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781410330468
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-Century authors of all...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Nineteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781410330475
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-Century authors of all...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410331212
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

A convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on classical and medieval literatures.  Read More >>

Dramaturgy and Architecture: Theatre, Utopia and the Built Environment

Dramaturgy and Architecture: Theatre, Utopia and the...

Author: Cathy Turner
ISBN: 9781349559046
Format: Paperback
$194.04

Dramaturgy and Architecture approaches modern and postmodern theatre's contribution to the way we think about the...  Read More >>

Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to the Present

Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust...

Author: Simon Kemp
ISBN: 9781138717053
Format: Paperback
$83.99

""My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking.""...  Read More >>

Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature

Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature...

Author: Christopher González
ISBN: 9780814254417
Format: Paperback
$97.55

In Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature, Christopher González explores the ways in which Latina/o...  Read More >>

An Analysis of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

An Analysis of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

Author: Nicola Davis ,  Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9781912302376
Format: Hardback
$51.72

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