Literary theory books

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Island Indias, Archipelagic Memory

Island Indias, Archipelagic Memory

Author: Ananya Jahanara Kabir ,  Luca Raimondi
ISBN: 9789004751002
Format: Hardback
$340.56

This volume is a groundbreaking reorientation of India's cultural history that explores postcolonial cultural memory...  Read More >>

A Global History of Literature and the Environment

A Global History of Literature and the Environment

Author: John Parham (University of Worcester) ,  Louise Westling (University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9781107500648
Format: Paperback
$82.77

This book is for an international audience concerned about environmental crisis. It shows how writers across the...  Read More >>

Lists and the Poetics of Reckoning in Middle English Culture

Lists and the Poetics of Reckoning in Middle English...

Author: Stephen G. Nichols ,  Martha Rust
ISBN: 9781433167270
Format: Hardback
$250.67

This book argues that written lists signify at once as words, images, and things. As such, they call upon skills...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Criticism: An Introduction

Aesthetic Criticism: An Introduction

Author: James Dowthwaite
ISBN: 9781032943534
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Aesthetic Criticism offers an account of aesthetic criticism as a far more rigorous approach to art, literature,...  Read More >>

Verbo & Esencia: Palabra, Pensamiento y Poesía

Verbo & Esencia: Palabra, Pensamiento y Poesía

Author: Bruno Theilig
ISBN: 9786583444165
Format: Paperback
$31.20

El autor parte de la hipótesis de Heidegger de que la palabra es ""la casa del ser"" para explorar cómo, desde el...  Read More >>

A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory

A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory

Author: Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9781350534070
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

Parasitical Logic in Culture and Society

Parasitical Logic in Culture and Society

Author: Professor Peter Hitchcock (Graduate Center and Baruch College, City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9798765138311
Format: Hardback
$180.00

In essays on film, literature, capitalism, and the university, this book illuminates and deepens the understanding...  Read More >>

Short Story as World Literature: The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure Genre

Short Story as World Literature: The Deep History and...

Author: Prof Delia Ungureanu (Harvard University, USA) ,  Dr. Amândio Reis (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
ISBN: 9798765126738
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an ""impure"" genre by challenging...  Read More >>

Wise Women for Loving Nature: Or, Femopolitical Ecology

Wise Women for Loving Nature: Or, Femopolitical Ecology...

Author: Dr Rod Giblett (Deakin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9798765142097
Format: Hardback
$180.00

From Rachel Carson and Julia Kristeva to Rebecca Solnit and Nandi Chinna, the writers and artists featured here...  Read More >>

Rethinking Feeling: On the Renegotiation of Emotions in German Novels at the Fin de Siècle

Rethinking Feeling: On the Renegotiation of Emotions...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Holly A. Yanacek (James Madison University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765158395
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

Grief Work as Autotheory: Sisterhood, Suicide and Art

Grief Work as Autotheory: Sisterhood, Suicide and Art...

Author: Meg Jensen
ISBN: 9783032121516
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non-fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental...  Read More >>

How and Why Do Courts Cite?: Intertextual References in the Decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the Supreme Court of Canada

How and Why Do Courts Cite?: Intertextual References...

Author: Joy Steigler-Herms
ISBN: 9783662719336
Format: Paperback
$263.97

Court decisions can neither be made nor drafted without references to other texts; citations are omnipresent in...  Read More >>

Hemispheric Ecological Citizenship: Sustainable Alternative Societies in Recent Utopian Fiction from the Americas

Hemispheric Ecological Citizenship: Sustainable Alternative...

Author: Claudia Pereira de Jesus
ISBN: 9783662729380
Format: Paperback
$290.37

In times of global crisis and uncertainty, narrative literary works serve not only as sources of pleasure but also...  Read More >>

Literatur – Geltung – Recht: Rhetorische Perspektiven auf Streit um die Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert

Literatur – Geltung – Recht: Rhetorische Perspektiven...

Author: Gesine Heger
ISBN: 9783662729885
Format: Paperback
$211.17

Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über rhetorische Strategien, in zentralen literarischen Streitigkeiten des 18....  Read More >>

Hegel's Relationship to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth

Hegel's Relationship to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth...

Author: Michael Geoffrey Salter
ISBN: 9783032094452
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>

Sonic Poetry: Technological Methods as Creative Practice

Sonic Poetry: Technological Methods as Creative Practice...

Author: Marc Matter
ISBN: 9783112225523
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This interdisciplinary study focuses on sonic poetry, an experimental artistic practice in the post-digital era....  Read More >>

Vers und Prosa: DFG-Symposium 2024

Vers und Prosa: DFG-Symposium 2024

Author: Judith Kasper ,  Cornelia Zumbusch
ISBN: 9783662718414
Format: Hardback
$395.97

Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Untersuchung von Mischungs- und Kontrastverhältnissen, durch die eine vermeintlich...  Read More >>

Ästhetik Der Distanz Bei Ornela Vorpsi Und Bessa Myftiu

Ästhetik Der Distanz Bei Ornela Vorpsi Und Bessa Myftiu...

Author: Julia Görtz
ISBN: 9783119144759
Format: Hardback
$348.45

The book series (Re)visionen aims at a revision of the literary canon analyzing Italian and Romance literary and...  Read More >>

Rachel Bowlby – Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories

Rachel Bowlby – Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood,...

Author: Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, University College London)
ISBN: 9781399528412
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader

The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader...

Author: Peter D McDonald (Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford, St Hugh’s College)
ISBN: 9781399524414
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

The Reader in Modernist Fiction

The Reader in Modernist Fiction

Author: Brian Richardson (Professor in the English Department, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9781399528375
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

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