Literary theory books

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„Mythopoesie der Liebe“: Hölderlins später Gesang und sein Werkkontext

„Mythopoesie der Liebe“: Hölderlins später Gesang und...

Author: Eveline Quentmeier
ISBN: 9783662721728
Format: Hardback
$448.77

Das von der Forschung vernachlässigte und kontrovers diskutierte späte Gedicht Hölderlins ist eine elegische Hymne,...  Read More >>

Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography

Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography

Author: John Schad
ISBN: 9781800089693
Format: Paperback
$77.63

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Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices

Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices...

Author: Elham Bahmanteymouri ,  Jean Hillier (RMIT University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032741536
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice,...  Read More >>

Film Adaptation and the Real: Subjectivity and Cinematic Mediation

Film Adaptation and the Real: Subjectivity and Cinematic...

Author: Dr. Hee-seung Irene Lee (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9798765138373
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting...  Read More >>

The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India

The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India...

Author: Nayantara Srinivasan (University of Münster )
ISBN: 9781009591201
Format: Paperback
$36.22

This Element explores the landscape of anglophone trade bookselling in India, aiming to identify some key factors...  Read More >>

Exploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature: Echoes of Laughter in the Capitalocene

Exploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature: Echoes...

Author: Mohammad Rahmatullah ,  Tanu Gupta
ISBN: 9783032017758
Format: Paperback
$181.10

In this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie,...  Read More >>

Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography

Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography

Author: John Schad
ISBN: 9781800089679
Format: Hardback
$129.38

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Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices

Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices...

Author: Elham Bahmanteymouri ,  Jean Hillier (RMIT University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032743462
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice,...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

Author: Julie A. Buckler (Professor, Professor, Harvard University) ,  Justin Weir (Professor, Professor, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780197520857
Format: Hardback
$419.95

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Major Russian...  Read More >>

The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams

The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond...

Author: Lesley Johnson
ISBN: 9781032645438
Format: Paperback
$58.99

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary...  Read More >>

The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature

The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature...

Author: Norman N. Holland
ISBN: 9781032658179
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism

The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism...

Author: Allon White
ISBN: 9781032646015
Format: Paperback
$58.99

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature...  Read More >>

Iconizing of Literature, Art, Humanities, and Science: Intermediality and Value in Popular Culture

Iconizing of Literature, Art, Humanities, and Science:...

Author: Paula Wojcik ,  Sophie Picard
ISBN: 9783031623110
Format: Hardback
$475.17

Why do people wear shirts with the Shakespeare quote “to be or not be?” or a portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek?...  Read More >>

The Politics of Nature and Environmental Writing: Political Ecocriticism

The Politics of Nature and Environmental Writing: Political Ecocriticism...

Author: Rod Giblett
ISBN: 9783032044266
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book defines nature writing as the creative practice of tracing the bodily and sensory enjoyment of nature—in...  Read More >>

Law, Literature and Legal Counterfactuals: A Method of Contrastive Discourse Analysis Using the Example of Contemporary Literature

Law, Literature and Legal Counterfactuals: A Method...

Author: Alexandra Juster
ISBN: 9783032037916
Format: Hardback
$475.17

Based on the long-established American law and literature movement, the interdisciplinary research field of 'law...  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 >>

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction...

Author: Paweł Wojtas (Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw)
ISBN: 9781399522588
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee  Read More >>

The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary and the Form of Environment

The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description,...

Author: David Rodriguez (Adjunct Assistant Professor in English, Hofstra University)
ISBN: 9781399522939
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment...  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 >>

The Misfortunes of Arthur: A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition

The Misfortunes of Arthur: A Critical, Old-Spelling...

Author: Thomas Hughes ,  Brian J. Corrigan
ISBN: 9781032700724
Format: Paperback
$58.99

The Misfortunes of Arthur, written by Thomas Hughes is one of the earliest printed plays from the English Renaissance...  Read More >>

Writing Contested Illness: Experimentation in Contemporary Women's Life Writing

Writing Contested Illness: Experimentation in Contemporary...

Author: Chloe R. Green (Lecturer in English, Australian National University)
ISBN: 9781399534406
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how women's experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness.  Read More >>

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