Literary theory books

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Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist...

Author: Sianne Ngai
ISBN: 9780674278745
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism....  Read More >>

Animals in Detective Fiction

Animals in Detective Fiction

Author: Ruth Hawthorn ,  John Miller
ISBN: 9783031092404
Format: Hardback
$310.47

Although it is often described as an essentially conservative form, detective fiction can unsettle the binary of...  Read More >>

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

Author: Michael Titlestad
ISBN: 9783030870430
Format: Paperback
$129.35

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks...  Read More >>

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2023

Author: No Contributor
ISBN: 9783110768961
Format: Paperback
$461.60

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Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and...

Author: Laura Lazzari ,  Nathalie Ségeral
ISBN: 9783030774097
Format: Paperback
$310.47

Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of...  Read More >>

Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics

Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics

Author: Eric S. Kos
ISBN: 9783030830571
Format: Paperback
$284.60

An international set of authors engages and expands the analysis of Oakeshott’s writings in often neglected areas...  Read More >>

Uncanny Rest: For Antiphilosophy

Uncanny Rest: For Antiphilosophy

Author: Alberto Moreiras
ISBN: 9781478019022
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Focusing on his personal day to day experiences of the ""shelter-in-place"" period during the first months of the...  Read More >>

Scream

Scream

Author: Michael J. Seidlinger (Writer, editor, and contributor, Freelance Writer, USA) ,  Christopher Schaberg (Loyola University New Orleans USA)
ISBN: 9781501386749
Format: Paperback
$19.99

""An examination of the scream, a universal expression that bridges both language and geography, containing the...  Read More >>

Uncanny Rest: For Antiphilosophy

Uncanny Rest: For Antiphilosophy

Author: Alberto Moreiras
ISBN: 9781478016380
Format: Hardback
$250.67

Focusing on his personal day to day experiences of the ""shelter-in-place"" period during the first months of the...  Read More >>

Religion, Narrative, and the Environmental Humanities: Bridging the Rhetoric Gap

Religion, Narrative, and the Environmental Humanities:...

Author: Matthew Newcomb
ISBN: 9781032331218
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Reading the Vegetarian Vampire

Reading the Vegetarian Vampire

Author: Sophie Dungan
ISBN: 9783031183492
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This Pivot traces the rise of the so-called “vegetarian” vampire in popular culture and contemporary vampire fiction,...  Read More >>

African Literatures as World Literature

African Literatures as World Literature

Author: Alexander Fyfe (University of Georgia) ,  Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781501379956
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""A consideration of the theoretical, conceptual, and material connections between African literatures and ""the...  Read More >>

Feminism as World Literature

Feminism as World Literature

Author: Professor Robin Truth Goodman (Professor, Florida State University, USA) ,  Thomas Oliver Beebee (Penn State University USA)
ISBN: 9781501371189
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""Redefines the thematic contents of world literature in feminist terms as well as rethinking feminist terms, analyses,...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities

Author: Dr. James O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350232112
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings...  Read More >>

American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent

American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent...

Author: Jordan Carson
ISBN: 9780814255940
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Identifies American exceptionalism as an emerging form of religion while exploring alternatives through works by...  Read More >>

Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism

Author: Dr Maria Margaroni
ISBN: 9781501362354
Format: Hardback
$190.00

""Explores and illuminates Kristeva's profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism""--  Read More >>

Media Ecologies of Literature

Media Ecologies of Literature

Author: Dr. Susanne Bayerlipp (Assistant Professor, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) ,  Dr. Ralf Haekel (Professor and Chair of English Literature, Universität Leipzig, Germany)
ISBN: 9781501383878
Format: Hardback
$160.00

""Applies recent theories of media ecology to British and American literature from the late 19th century to the...  Read More >>

Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in America since 1772

Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production...

Author: Stefan L. Brandt
ISBN: 9783031136108
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The book explores the liminal aesthetics of U.S. cultural and literary practice. The study suggests that U.S. literary...  Read More >>

Queer Sharing in the Marketized University

Queer Sharing in the Marketized University

Author: Churnjeet Mahn (University of Strathclyde, UK) ,  Matt Brim (City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781032066585
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This collection contributes to an understanding of queer theory as a ""queer share,"" addressing the urgent need...  Read More >>

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