Literary theory books

19023 books were found.

Losing the Plot: Crime, reality and fiction in postapartheid South African writing

Losing the Plot: Crime, reality and fiction in postapartheid...

Author: Leon Kock
ISBN: 9781868149643
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of post-apartheid South African writing...  Read More >>

Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts

Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts...

Author: Elena Semino
ISBN: 9781138151567
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Introduces an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds: the contexts, scenarios...  Read More >>

Metafiction

Metafiction

Author: Mark Currie
ISBN: 9781138149724
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This text covers the definition of metafiction, historiographic metafiction and the writer and critic. It includes...  Read More >>

Shame and the Aging Woman: Confronting and Resisting Ageism in Contemporary Women's Writings

Shame and the Aging Woman: Confronting and Resisting...

Author: J. Brooks Bouson
ISBN: 9783319317106
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book brings together the research findings of contemporary feminist age studies scholars, shame theorists,...  Read More >>

Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion

Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife...

Author: Sarah Hammerschlag
ISBN: 9780231170598
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Over thirty years, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida conversed across texts about the interrelation of philosophy,...  Read More >>

Kafka’s Nonhuman Form: Troubling the Boundaries of the Kafkaesque

Kafka’s Nonhuman Form: Troubling the Boundaries of the...

Author: Ted Geier
ISBN: 9783319403939
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book is a compact study of Kafka’s inimitable literary style, animals, and ecological thought—his nonhuman...  Read More >>

Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures

Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures...

Author: Bethany Wiggin ,  Catriona MacLeod
ISBN: 9780810133440
Format: Hardback
$316.80

The essays collected in Un/Translatables unite two inescapable interventions in contemporary translation discourses:...  Read More >>

Routledge Library Editions: Language and Literature of the Middle East

Routledge Library Editions: Language and Literature...

Author: Various
ISBN: 9781138682979
Format: Mixed media product
$525.00

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Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England

Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance...

Author: J. K. Barret
ISBN: 9781501702365
Format: Hardback
$155.63

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Inter-tech(s): Colonialism and the Question of Technology in Francophone Literature

Inter-tech(s): Colonialism and the Question of Technology...

Author: Roxanna Nydia Curto
ISBN: 9780813939223
Format: Hardback
$143.00

Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over...  Read More >>

Inter-tech(s): Colonialism and the Question of Technology in Francophone Literature

Inter-tech(s): Colonialism and the Question of Technology...

Author: Roxanna Nydia Curto
ISBN: 9780813939230
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over...  Read More >>

Backwoodsmen as Ecocritical Motif in French Canadian Literature: Connecting Worlds in the Wilds

Backwoodsmen as Ecocritical Motif in French Canadian...

Author: Anne Rehill
ISBN: 9781498531108
Format: Hardback
$201.00

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J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face-to-face with Time

J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face-to-face...

Author: David Attwell
ISBN: 9780143128816
Format: Paperback
$44.88

An insightful literary biography of the Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee’s, illuminating the creation of his extraordinary...  Read More >>

Pariah in the Desert: The Heroic and the Monstrous in Horacio Quiroga

Pariah in the Desert: The Heroic and the Monstrous in...

Author: Todd S. Garth
ISBN: 9781611487671
Format: Hardback
$212.00

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Reading the Way of Things – Towards a New Technology of Making Sense

Reading the Way of Things – Towards a New Technology...

Author: Daniel Coffeen
ISBN: 9781785354144
Format: Paperback
$31.02

A guide to making new sense of the world, critically and generously. A techne for the postmodern world.  Read More >>

Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction

Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction...

Author: Andreá N. Williams
ISBN: 9780472036745
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Provides fresh insights on the intersection of race and class in black fiction from the 1880s to 1900s  Read More >>

Active Perception

Active Perception

Author: Yiannis Aloimonos
ISBN: 9781138988255
Format: Paperback
$105.00

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now: Reading with Hindsight

Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now:...

Author: Simon Dentith
ISBN: 9781138248731
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770

The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770

Author: Ashley Marshall (Professor and Chair, University of Nevada, Reno)
ISBN: 9781421419855
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.  Read More >>

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