Literary theory books

19021 books were found.

Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fashioning the Unfashionable

Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and...

Author: Allan Ingram ,  Leigh Wetherall Dickson
ISBN: 9781137597175
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth...  Read More >>

Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature

Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and...

Author: Brenda Deen Schildgen ,  Ralph Hexter
ISBN: 9781137565433
Format: Hardback
$224.37

Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works...  Read More >>

Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism

Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life...

Author: Ron Broglio
ISBN: 9781438465678
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature

Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent...

Author: Jean W. Cash ,  Keith Perry
ISBN: 9781496810526
Format: Paperback
$62.70

Describes and discusses the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first...  Read More >>

The Anti-Oedipus Complex: Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism

The Anti-Oedipus Complex: Lacan, Critical Theory and...

Author: Rob Weatherill
ISBN: 9781138692350
Format: Paperback
$103.00

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The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory

The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory

Author: Peter A. O'Connell
ISBN: 9781477311684
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Using examples from all of the Athenian orators, this innovative book considers forensic speeches as one of the...  Read More >>

Magnús Eiríksson: A Forgotten Contemporary of Kierkegaard

Magnús Eiríksson: A Forgotten Contemporary of Kierkegaard...

Author: Gerhard Schreiber ,  Jon Stewart
ISBN: 9788763543903
Format: Hardback
$147.46

This book is the first anthology of writings to be devoted to Icelandic theologian and religious writer Magnús Eiríksson...  Read More >>

The Anti-Oedipus Complex: Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism

The Anti-Oedipus Complex: Lacan, Critical Theory and...

Author: Rob Weatherill
ISBN: 9781138692343
Format: Hardback
$378.00

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Histories of the Devil: From Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees

Histories of the Devil: From Marlowe to Mann and the...

Author: Jeremy Tambling
ISBN: 9781137518316
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book is about representations of the devil in English and European literature. Tracing the fascination in literature,...  Read More >>

Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches from Antiquity to Early Modern Times: Rearranging the Tesserae

Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches from Antiquity...

Author: Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido ,  Victoria Pineda
ISBN: 9789004321793
Format: Hardback
$475.20

At the intersection of rhetoric, historiography, and the history of reading, Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City

Author: Jeremy Tambling
ISBN: 9781137549105
Format: Hardback
$646.85

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Text and Image in the City: Manuscript, Print and Visual Culture in Urban Space

Text and Image in the City: Manuscript, Print and Visual...

Author: Catherine Armstrong ,  John Hinks
ISBN: 9781443843881
Format: Hardback
$208.43

The essays in this collection discuss how the city is 'textualized', and address many aspects of how texts and images...  Read More >>

Let the Reason Be Love

Let the Reason Be Love

Author: Tuhin A Sinha ,  Shaheen Khan
ISBN: 9781536683370
Format: Audio
$26.37

What makes strangers fall in love? This remains a conundrum - one that neither technological breakthroughs nor the...  Read More >>

The Misinterpellated Subject

The Misinterpellated Subject

Author: James R. Martel
ISBN: 9780822362968
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Gogol

Gogol

Author: Janko Lavrin
ISBN: 9781138941649
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Fiction and Narrative

Fiction and Narrative

Author: Derek Matravers (The Open University)
ISBN: 9780198776604
Format: Paperback
$73.95

Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers...  Read More >>

The Misinterpellated Subject

The Misinterpellated Subject

Author: James R. Martel
ISBN: 9780822362845
Format: Hardback
$369.47

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The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant

The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant

Author: Robert Doran (University of Rochester, New York)
ISBN: 9781107499157
Format: Paperback
$67.27

This is the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, one of the most important concepts in...  Read More >>

On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain

On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain...

Author: Edward Said
ISBN: 9781350016804
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Routledge Revivals: Pandora and Occam (1992): On the Limits of Language and Literature

Routledge Revivals: Pandora and Occam (1992): On the...

Author: Horst Ruthrof
ISBN: 9781138718883
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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