Literary theory books

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William Empson: The Man and His Work

William Empson: The Man and His Work
Author: Roma Gill, OBE ISBN: 9781138683549 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This volume of commemorative and celebratory essays, first published in 1974, concentrates on William Empson – the... Read More >>

The Taming of the Text: Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture

The Taming of the Text: Explorations in Language, Literature...
Author: Willie Van Peer (University of Calgary, Canada) ISBN: 9781138683372 Format: Hardback	$92.99
The contributors of this text provide a dynamic view of the social functioning of texts, taking account of linguistic,... Read More >>

Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts

Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts
Author: J. R. de J. Jackson ISBN: 9781138683440 Format: Hardback	$273.00
In this original and significant contribution to literary controversy, Professor Jackson argues on semantic grounds... Read More >>

Nature and Language: A Semiotic Study of Cucurbits in Literature

Nature and Language: A Semiotic Study of Cucurbits in...
Author: Ralf Norrman , Jon Haarberg (University of Oslo, Norway) ISBN: 9781138683396 Format: Hardback	$305.00
There exists an area of overlap where language and nature meet, and this book, first published in 1980, illuminates... Read More >>

Black Literature and Literary Theory

Black Literature and Literary Theory
Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr ISBN: 9781138683785 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms: Revised and Enlarged Edition

A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms: Revised and Enlarged...
Author: Roger Fowler ISBN: 9781138683891 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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E. M. Forster as Critic

E. M. Forster as Critic
Author: Rukun Advani ISBN: 9781138683952 Format: Hardback	$189.00
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A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning: Linguistics, Semiotics and Discourse Theory

A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning: Linguistics,...
Author: Ronald Schleifer, Ph.D ISBN: 9781138684034 Format: Hardback	$305.00
In this book, first published in 1987, Professor Schleifer sets Greimas’ work in its intellectual context and sets... Read More >>

The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes

The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes
Author: Mary Bittner Wiseman ISBN: 9781138684546 Format: Hardback	$305.00
In this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman interprets Roland Barthes’s experiments as efforts to... Read More >>

The Reader's Construction of Narrative

The Reader's Construction of Narrative
Author: Horst Ruthrof ISBN: 9781138684621 Format: Hardback	$189.00
In this book, first published in 1981, the author argues that narrative is an interaction between ""the presented... Read More >>

Language, Thought and Comprehension: A Study of the Writings of I. A. Richards

Language, Thought and Comprehension: A Study of the...
Author: W. H. N. Hotopf ISBN: 9781138685130 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Essays in Modern Stylistics

Essays in Modern Stylistics
Author: Donald Freeman ISBN: 9781138685659 Format: Hardback	$378.00
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Romancing the Postmodern

Romancing the Postmodern
Author: Diane Elam ISBN: 9781138685444 Format: Hardback	$189.00
"Looks at the great romantic novelists - Scott, Eliot, Conrad - and the postmodern ""romances"" of Calvino, Eco... Read More >>

British Post-Structuralism: Since 1968

British Post-Structuralism: Since 1968
Author: Antony Easthope ISBN: 9781138685352 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Through this exploration of the relation between Marxism, post-structuralism and the theory of the subject, first... Read More >>

The Languages of Literature: Some Linguistic Contributions to Criticism

The Languages of Literature: Some Linguistic Contributions...
Author: Roger Fowler ISBN: 9781138685581 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Gadamer and Hermeneutics: Science, Culture, Literature

Gadamer and Hermeneutics: Science, Culture, Literature...
Author: Hugh J. Silverman ISBN: 9781138685772 Format: Hardback	$326.00
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Wounded Fiction: Modern Poetry and Deconstruction

Wounded Fiction: Modern Poetry and Deconstruction
Author: Joseph Adamson ISBN: 9781138688827 Format: Hardback	$210.00
This book, first published in 1988, does not concern the theory of poetry so much as the poetry of theory: a poetry... Read More >>

Post-Structuralist Classics

Post-Structuralist Classics
Author: Andrew Benjamin ISBN: 9781138689510 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis,... Read More >>

Speech Acts and Literary Theory

Speech Acts and Literary Theory
Author: Sandy Petrey ISBN: 9781138689732 Format: Hardback	$242.00
This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with... Read More >>

Genetic Codes of Culture?: The Deconstruction of Tradition by Kuhn, Bloom, and Derrida

Genetic Codes of Culture?: The Deconstruction of Tradition...
Author: William R. Schultz ISBN: 9781138689763 Format: Hardback	$131.00
In this text, first published in 1994, the author examines the interdisciplinary significance of the theory of science,... Read More >>

Literature as Communication and Cognition in Bakhtin and Lotman

Literature as Communication and Cognition in Bakhtin...
Author: Allan Reid ISBN: 9781138693586 Format: Hardback	$189.00
This title, first published in 1990, argues for the existence of a significant connection between the theories of... Read More >>

Unfolding the Mind: The Unconscious in American Romanticism and Literary Theory

Unfolding the Mind: The Unconscious in American Romanticism...
Author: Jeffrey Steele ISBN: 9781138693661 Format: Hardback	$189.00
American writers in the 1830s and 1840s felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception... Read More >>

Reconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, History, and Politics in the Humanities

Reconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies:...
Author: William E. Cain , William E. Cain ISBN: 9781138984745 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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Human Rights in Children's Literature: Imagination and the Narrative of Law

Human Rights in Children's Literature: Imagination and...
Author: Jonathan Todres (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law) , Sarah Higinbotham (A Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, A Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology) ISBN: 9780190493189 Format: Paperback	$82.95
How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others? In this book, authors Jonathan... Read More >>

Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism

Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism
Author: Sibel Irzik ISBN: 9781138684973 Format: Hardback	$147.00
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