Literary theory books

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Reading T. S. Eliot: The Rose Garden and After (1930s–1950s)

Reading T. S. Eliot: The Rose Garden and After (1930s–1950s)...
Author: Dídac Llorens-Cubedo , Viorica Patea ISBN: 9781032696782 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Eliot’s career was influenced by concrete historical and biographical circumstances who played a decisive role as... Read More >>

Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology

Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding...
Author: Katherine J Weese ISBN: 9780814215999 Format: Hardback	$237.47
Puts major theories of narrative in dialogue with post-postmodernist theory to present a new pluralist narratological... Read More >>

Gendered Magic: How Cultural Models Shape Fantasy Worlds

Gendered Magic: How Cultural Models Shape Fantasy Worlds...
Author: Anna Köhler ISBN: 9783119149662 Format: Hardback	$319.41
At the surface, fantastic storyworlds appear free of the constraints of reality - yet for all their limitless potential,... Read More >>

Multivocality and Responsiveness. Medieval Literature in Dialogue: Essays by Almut Suerbaum in Context

Multivocality and Responsiveness. Medieval Literature...
Author: Racha Kirakosian , Linus Ubl ISBN: 9781501523441 Format: Hardback	$348.45
This compilation brings together seminal essays by Almut Suerbaum with critical responses from colleagues, providing... Read More >>

Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism
Author: Professor Paola Marrati (Johns Hopkins University, USA) ISBN: 9781501313639 Format: Hardback	$190.00
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Degraded Heartland: Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature

Degraded Heartland: Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the...
Author: Maria Farland ISBN: 9781421452418 Format: Hardback	$248.00
How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and... Read More >>

A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny

A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny...
Author: Fredric V. Bogel ISBN: 9781032909004 Format: Paperback	$83.99
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Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House

Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread...
Author: Mette Lindahl-Wise , Harry Oulton ISBN: 9781032907260 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House brings... Read More >>

A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny

A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny...
Author: Fredric V. Bogel ISBN: 9781032908403 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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The Constellational Novel

The Constellational Novel
Author: Louis Klee (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9780198956303 Format: Hardback	$182.95
A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose... Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life Without Meaning

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life Without Meaning...
Author: Benjamin Paloff ISBN: 9780810148635 Format: Hardback	$264.00
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The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the Antinomies of Plato's ""Parmenides""

The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the...
Author: Andrew Cutrofello ISBN: 9780810149380 Format: Hardback	$145.20
The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the Antinomies of Plato's ""Parmenides"" shows how modern philosophers... Read More >>

$Closer Reading: Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction$

Closer Reading: Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction...
Author: Professor or Dr. Garrett Stewart (James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of Iowa, USA) , Dr. David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA) ISBN: 9798765140260 Format: Paperback	$36.99
Perhaps the most prolific and exacting reader of his generation, Garrett Stewart's first book of essays — on close... Read More >>

$Closer Reading: Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction$

Closer Reading: Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction...
Author: Professor or Dr. Garrett Stewart (James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of Iowa, USA) , Dr. David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA) ISBN: 9798765140277 Format: Hardback	$120.00
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Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature: Rethinking Relations Between Fiction and Reality

Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature: Rethinking...
Author: Dr Elise Kraatila (Tampere University, Finland) , Senior Lecturer Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow UK) ISBN: 9781350521438 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Positioning fantasy fiction as a response to the ongoing crisis of representation in Western fiction, this book... Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and Migration: Critical and Creative Voices (1946-2016)

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and...
Author: Professor or Dr. Nicoletta Vallorani (Associate Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Milan, Italy) , Professor or Dr. Simona Bertacco (Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities, University of Louisville, USA) ISBN: 9798765103524 Format: Hardback	$280.00
Focusing on a significant 70-year period as a climactic phase of displacement, the book investigates the role of... Read More >>

The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy and the Dynamics of Language

The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy...
Author: Rein Raud ISBN: 9781793646606 Format: Hardback	$160.00
Discusses the relations between linguistic structures and the practice of philosophizing—with examples from across... Read More >>

Film as World Literature

Film as World Literature
Author: Professor Robin Truth Goodman (Professor, Florida State University, USA) , Professor Thomas Oliver Beebee (Penn State University, USA) ISBN: 9798765113400 Format: Hardback	$190.00
Redefines the theoretical and thematic contents of world literature by considering it in connection with film. Read More >>

African Literature in Transition: Volume 1: The Archive of African Literature, 1800–2000

African Literature in Transition: Volume 1: The Archive...
Author: James Ogude (University of Pretoria) , Neil ten Kortenaar (University of Toronto) ISBN: 9781009662321 Format: Hardback	$232.88
Offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as a collective memory built over the years by generations... Read More >>

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts...
Author: Puspa Damai (Marshall University, USA) ISBN: 9781032993775 Format: Paperback	$83.99
This volume introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is an... Read More >>

Writing, Dancing and Performing Death Across Late Medieval Europe: Texts and Contexts

Writing, Dancing and Performing Death Across Late Medieval...
Author: Catherine Léglu , Sophie Oosterwijk ISBN: 9789004734647 Format: Hardback	$359.04
A collection of edited texts with translations and critical essays that explores the impact of the Dance of Death... Read More >>

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts...
Author: Puspa Damai (Marshall University, USA) ISBN: 9781032993782 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This volume introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is an... Read More >>

Virginia Woolf’s Microgenesis: Mental States and Conceptual Worlds

Virginia Woolf’s Microgenesis: Mental States and Conceptual...
Author: James Kearns ISBN: 9781032616919 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Not Sex Work: Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental Encounters in the Digital Era

Not Sex Work: Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental...
Author: Max Morris (Oxford Brookes University, UK) ISBN: 9781032384320 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Tennessee Williams’s America: Homes, Families, Exiles

Tennessee Williams’s America: Homes, Families, Exiles...
Author: Ahmed Honeini ISBN: 9781032612331 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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