Literary theory books

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English Criticism in Japan: Essays by Younger Japanese Scholars on English and American Literature

English Criticism in Japan: Essays by Younger Japanese...
Author: Earl Miner ISBN: 9780691646534 Format: Hardback	$220.00
This collection of essays has been compiled in the hope of making scholars in the rest of the world more familiar... Read More >>

Discovering the Comic

Discovering the Comic
Author: George McFadden ISBN: 9780691642253 Format: Hardback	$175.00
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Chinese Approaches to Literature from Confucius to Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao

Chinese Approaches to Literature from Confucius to Liang...
Author: Adele Austin Rickett ISBN: 9780691630748 Format: Hardback	$180.00
""Essays ... originally presented at a conference on Chinese literary criticism held in St. Croix, Virgin Islands... Read More >>

Epigram in the English Renaissance

Epigram in the English Renaissance
Author: Hoyt Hopewell Hudson ISBN: 9780691653556 Format: Hardback	$135.00
Favorite Renaissance condiment at ""the great feast of language,"" the epigram is here presented full-flavored and... Read More >>

Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention

Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention...
Author: Paul John Eakin ISBN: 9780691631530 Format: Hardback	$185.00
Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine... Read More >>

Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach

Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach
Author: Alfred Owen Aldridge ISBN: 9780691641805 Format: Hardback	$210.00
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Italian Literary Icons

Italian Literary Icons
Author: Gian-Paolo Biasin ISBN: 9780691639758 Format: Hardback	$135.00
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Faulkner: Myth and Motion

Faulkner: Myth and Motion
Author: Richard Perrill Adams ISBN: 9780691649177 Format: Hardback	$175.00
Faulkner said that ""Life is motion"" and that ""The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by... Read More >>

Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society

Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society
Author: Antonio Candido , Howard S. Becker ISBN: 9780691635903 Format: Hardback	$150.00
Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio... Read More >>

The Imposition of Form: Studies in Narrative Representation and Knowledge

The Imposition of Form: Studies in Narrative Representation...
Author: Claudia J. Brodsky ISBN: 9780691637426 Format: Hardback	$215.00
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Divine and Poetic Freedom in the Renaissance: Nominalist Theology and Literature in France and Italy

Divine and Poetic Freedom in the Renaissance: Nominalist...
Author: Ullrich Langer ISBN: 9780691632155 Format: Hardback	$145.00
The closely related problems of creativity and freedom have long been seen as emblematic of the Renaissance. Ullrich... Read More >>

Esthetics as Nightmare: Russian Literary Theory, 1855-1870

Esthetics as Nightmare: Russian Literary Theory, 1855-1870...
Author: Charles A. Moser ISBN: 9780691632742 Format: Hardback	$200.00
As an epoch of ""censorship terror"" drew to a close with the death of Nicholas I and the end of the Crimean War,... Read More >>

The Fate of Meaning: Charles Peirce, Structuralism, and Literature

The Fate of Meaning: Charles Peirce, Structuralism,...
Author: John K. Sheriff ISBN: 9780691631035 Format: Hardback	$135.00
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Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle

Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle...
Author: Michelle Zerba ISBN: 9780691632612 Format: Hardback	$195.00
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Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865

Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American...
Author: Mark R. Patterson ISBN: 9780691631455 Format: Hardback	$175.00
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Literature and the Continuances of Virtue

Literature and the Continuances of Virtue
Author: Warner Berthoff ISBN: 9780691638256 Format: Hardback	$190.00
Virtue, as used here, connotes integrity--that living force that issues from persons, societies, or texts in consequence... Read More >>

Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition

Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition...
Author: Kathy Eden ISBN: 9780691638461 Format: Hardback	$135.00
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Interpretation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literary Criticism

Interpretation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literary...
Author: Peter D. Juhl ISBN: 9780691638645 Format: Hardback	$215.00
This book provides and defends an analysis of our concept of the meaning of a literary work. P. D. Juhl challenges... Read More >>

Changing Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, 1650-1820

Changing Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts,...
Author: Murray Roston ISBN: 9780691632483 Format: Hardback	$290.00
Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Murray Roston... Read More >>

Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siecle

Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siecle...
Author: Linda C. Dowling ISBN: 9780691631028 Format: Hardback	$190.00
As Dr. Dowling demonstrates, literary Decadence in this linguistic and cultural context was to reveal itself as... Read More >>

Fictions of the Self, 1550-1800

Fictions of the Self, 1550-1800
Author: Arnold Weinstein ISBN: 9780691642741 Format: Hardback	$195.00
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Augustus Caesar in Augustan England: The Decline of a Classical Norm

Augustus Caesar in Augustan England: The Decline of...
Author: Howard D. Weinbrot ISBN: 9780691643809 Format: Hardback	$180.00
Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the view that the period 1660-1800 is correctly regarded as the ""Augustan"" age of... Read More >>

Durrenmatt: A Study in Plays, Prose, Theory

Durrenmatt: A Study in Plays, Prose, Theory
Author: Timo Tiusanen ISBN: 9780691636689 Format: Hardback	$310.00
Durrenmatt's apparently conflicting statements about his central concerns have baffled scholars attempting to interpret... Read More >>

Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox

Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox...
Author: Rosalie Littell Colie ISBN: 9780691650487 Format: Hardback	$350.00
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Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets

Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th...
Author: Marjorie Hope Nicolson ISBN: 9780691650623 Format: Hardback	$135.00
In this book the author express more completely than in her earlier studies what were the implications for the poet... Read More >>

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