Literary theory books

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Literature and Medicine

Literature and Medicine

Author: Anna M. Elsner (Universität St Gallen, Switzerland) ,  Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Universität Wien, Austria)
ISBN: 9781009300063
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Literature and Medicine considers how these two dynamic fields have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside...  Read More >>

The Grounds of the Novel

The Grounds of the Novel

Author: Daniel Wright
ISBN: 9781503637559
Format: Paperback
$50.99

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement...  Read More >>

The Moving Finger: Writers On Writing

The Moving Finger: Writers On Writing

Author: Hilda David ,  Francis Jarman
ISBN: 9789353769796
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Though there is no one way of writing—a vocation individualistic and idiosyncratic like no other—and each writer...  Read More >>

The Grounds of the Novel

The Grounds of the Novel

Author: Daniel Wright
ISBN: 9781503636835
Format: Hardback
$174.99

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017

The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature,...

Author: Hayden White ,  Robert Doran
ISBN: 9781501773594
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture

Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture

Author: Jonathan Najarian
ISBN: 9781496849588
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Offers an interdisciplinary consideration of myriad social, cultural, and aesthetic connections. Drawing on work...  Read More >>

The Scholar-Critic: An Introduction to Literary Research

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

Author: F. W. Bateson
ISBN: 9781032642710
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First Published in 1972, The Scholar-Critic argues that it's a mistake to consider literary criticism and literary...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017

The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature,...

Author: Hayden White ,  Robert Doran
ISBN: 9781501773587
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture

Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture

Author: Jonathan Najarian
ISBN: 9781496849571
Format: Hardback
$168.30

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Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Author: Sorcha Ni Fhlainn ,  Bernice M. Murphy
ISBN: 9781474490139
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The most extensive and up-to-date volume of essays on the Gothic mode in twentieth century culture.  Read More >>

Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place

Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place

Author: Neal Alexander
ISBN: 9781474484411
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The first book-length literary-geographical study of late modernist poetry.  Read More >>

The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes

The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary...

Author: Peter Adkins
ISBN: 9781474481977
Format: Paperback
$51.72

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Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature

Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature...

Author: Zoe Roth
ISBN: 9781474497510
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.  Read More >>

Relic

Relic

Author: Ed Simon (Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765102282
Format: Paperback
$19.99

""Relic explores how a bit of bone, a scrap of rag, a chip of wood - the most prosaic of materials - have often...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth

Author: Dr. Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State University, USA) ,  Dr. Maren Scheurer (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
ISBN: 9781501380242
Format: Hardback
$300.00

"""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical

Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries...

Author: Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago, USA) ,  Professor Mario Telò (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ISBN: 9781350377431
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The term ""radical formalism"" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes...  Read More >>

Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone Fiction

Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone...

Author: Prof. or Dr. Robinson Murphy
ISBN: 9798765102176
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""Castration desire theorizes an alternative form of masculinity in global literature that is less egocentric and...  Read More >>

The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020

The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives...

Author: Prof. or Dr. Benjamin Kohlmann ,  Dr. Ivana Perica (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany)
ISBN: 9781501399336
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""Analyses the rich global histories of 20th- and 21st-century politicized writing in order to provoke new debate...  Read More >>

Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family

Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and...

Author: Kristin Mahoney (Michigan State University)
ISBN: 9781009011501
Format: Paperback
$49.14

This book draws on archival materials, such as diaries, correspondence, and photo albums, to tell the stories of...  Read More >>

White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages

White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages

Author: Wan-Chuan Kao (Assistant Professor of English)
ISBN: 9781526145802
Format: Hardback
$125.99

This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across...  Read More >>

Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday

Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday

Author: Lyn Hejinian
ISBN: 9780819580856
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to...  Read More >>

Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth–Century English Robinsonade

Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth–Century English Robinsonade...

Author: Jakub Lipski
ISBN: 9789004690455
Format: Paperback
$163.68

Exploring the metamorphoses of the body as a crucial aspect of the Robinsonade’s ideologies in the eighteenth century...  Read More >>

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