Literary theory books

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Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft

Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries...

Author: Ellen Pinsky ,  Michael Slevin
ISBN: 9781032850115
Format: Paperback
$37.99

In this book of essays, over 40 successful writers in varied fields —poetry, science, the performing and visual...  Read More >>

Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft

Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries...

Author: Ellen Pinsky ,  Michael Slevin
ISBN: 9781032850092
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this book of essays, over 40 successful writers in varied fields —poetry, science, the performing and visual...  Read More >>

Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature: Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson

Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle...

Author: Zsolt Bojti
ISBN: 9781032772080
Format: Hardback
$305.00

It scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century....  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English

The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in...

Author: Matthew Stratton
ISBN: 9781032430232
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early Modern Feminism: ReSisters

Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early...

Author: Barbara Abrams
ISBN: 9781032632728
Format: Paperback
$46.99

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Mapping the Posthuman

Mapping the Posthuman

Author: Grant Hamilton ,  Carolyn Lau
ISBN: 9781032345239
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Writing, Retelling, and Critically Reading Children's and Young Adult Tales

Writing, Retelling, and Critically Reading Children's...

Author: Bernard Montoneri
ISBN: 9783031897665
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult...  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 (Regensburg University, Germany) ,  Dr. Ivana Perica (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany)
ISBN: 9781501399299
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""Analyses the rich global histories of 20th- and 21st-century politicized writing in order to provoke new debate...  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: 9781350377479
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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 (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
ISBN: 9798765102183
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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

The Invention of Colonialism: Richard Hakluyt and Medieval Travel Writing

The Invention of Colonialism: Richard Hakluyt and Medieval...

Author: Sebastian Sobecki (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781009338479
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element argues that medieval texts conveyed the essence of expansionist mercantilism and colonialism, which...  Read More >>

Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre: Emerging from the Silence

Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre:...

Author: Clara Mallon ,  Salomé Paul
ISBN: 9781032308227
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre critically engages with works of theatre both by and about working-class...  Read More >>

Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants

Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and...

Author: Sharon L. Joffe
ISBN: 9781032516868
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants will interest Shelley–circle researchers, life-writing...  Read More >>

The Invention of Colonialism: Richard Hakluyt and Medieval Travel Writing

The Invention of Colonialism: Richard Hakluyt and Medieval...

Author: Sebastian Sobecki (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781009644099
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element argues that medieval texts conveyed the essence of expansionist mercantilism and colonialism, which...  Read More >>

Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk: A Modernist Bildung at Work

Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk: A Modernist Bildung...

Author: Petru Golban
ISBN: 9781032945996
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk reveals how by embracing the idea that an individual subject and history mutually...  Read More >>

Metaphors of Motherhood in Marina Warner’s Fiction and Short Fiction: Her Womb Worn Thin

Metaphors of Motherhood in Marina Warner’s Fiction and...

Author: Souhir Zekri Masson
ISBN: 9781032649993
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume oversees the fluctuating, but close relationship of motherhood studies, maternal theory and feminism...  Read More >>

Landscape Poetics: Scottish Textual Practice 1928 Present

Landscape Poetics: Scottish Textual Practice 1928 Present...

Author: Monika Szuba
ISBN: 9781474484213
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Reassesses Scottish textual practice in the context of the natural and post-natural landscapes  Read More >>

A Phenomenology of the Alien: Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other

A Phenomenology of the Alien: Encounters with the Weird...

Author: Aaron B. Daniels
ISBN: 9781032856278
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan

The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan

Author: Todd McGowan (University of Vermont) ,  Mari Ruti (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781009300759
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The book provides a jargon-free introduction to the thought of Jacques Lacan. Readers will come away with an understanding...  Read More >>

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