Literary theory books

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Devised Truths and the Transmedial Construction of Worlds

Devised Truths and the Transmedial Construction of Worlds...

Author: Vasso Giannakopoulou ,  Elin Sütiste
ISBN: 9783031930829
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the...  Read More >>

The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader

The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader...

Author: Peter D McDonald (Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford, St Hugh’s College)
ISBN: 9781399524414
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality and Imagination

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality...

Author: Niall Oddy (Associate Lecturer, The Open University)
ISBN: 9781399522625
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855–1901

Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems...

Author: Ayendy Bonifacio (Assistant Professor of English, University of Toledo)
ISBN: 9781399523509
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Provides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation...  Read More >>

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Author: Stacey McDowell (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781009380423
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures

The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures...

Author: Xiaofan Amy Li (University College, London)
ISBN: 9781009670227
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

Ascetic Images: Anna Maria Ortese and Roberto Rossellini in the Underworld

Ascetic Images: Anna Maria Ortese and Roberto Rossellini...

Author: Achille Castaldo (Emory University and)
ISBN: 9798855805000
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Examines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in works by two of the most influential Italian cultural...  Read More >>

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and...

Author: Tony Fabijančić
ISBN: 9781041123002
Format: Hardback
$375.19

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The Scholar-Critic: An Introduction to Literary Research

The Scholar-Critic: An Introduction to Literary Research...

Author: F. W. Bateson
ISBN: 9781032642734
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life Without Meaning

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life Without Meaning...

Author: Benjamin Paloff
ISBN: 9780810148635
Format: Hardback
$264.00

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The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the Antinomies of Plato's ""Parmenides""

The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the...

Author: Andrew Cutrofello
ISBN: 9780810149380
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Author: Marion Thain (Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh) ,  Ewan Jones (Associate Professor of English, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781399521116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

Mari Ruti and Climate Change: From Grief to Creativity

Mari Ruti and Climate Change: From Grief to Creativity...

Author: Clint Burnham
ISBN: 9781032807034
Format: Paperback
$59.49

In this illuminating book, Clint Burnham invites the reader to consider humanity's relationship with the world around...  Read More >>

Mari Ruti and Climate Change: From Grief to Creativity

Mari Ruti and Climate Change: From Grief to Creativity...

Author: Clint Burnham
ISBN: 9781032855943
Format: Hardback
$362.25

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

Author: Margarita Vaysman (Professor, Professor, University of Oxford) ,  Katherine A. Bowers (Professor, Professor, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
ISBN: 9780197610640
Format: Hardback
$419.95

Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across...  Read More >>

How the Irish Became White Supremacists

How the Irish Became White Supremacists

Author: Sean O’ Dubhghaill
ISBN: 9781032947068
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This volume provides a critical analysis of Irish literature and the timely appraisal of contemporary developments...  Read More >>

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