Literary theory books

17174 books were found.

Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool

Author: Dr. Piotr Florczyk (University of Washington, USA)
ISBN: 9781501394874
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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Pencil

Pencil

Author: Carol Beggy (Writer/editor, public relations consultant, Freelance Writer, USA) ,  Ian Bogost
ISBN: 9781501392245
Format: Paperback
$19.99

"""Often overlooked, tucked into a drawer or stuffed into a case, the pencil is a tool whose simplicity belies its...  Read More >>

The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides

The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides

Author: Marco Fantuzzi (Roehampton University, London)
ISBN: 9781107629349
Format: Paperback
$155.22

Full scholarly edition of the only complete poetic text from the fourth century BC, which bridges the classical...  Read More >>

Hyperbolic Realism: A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's Late Maximalist Fiction

Hyperbolic Realism: A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and...

Author: Dr. Samir Sellami (Independent Scholar, Germany)
ISBN: 9781501360497
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""A philosophically grounded exploration of the hyperbolic realism of Pynchon and Bola�no within the broader context...  Read More >>

Kabbalah and Literature

Kabbalah and Literature

Author: Professor Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501359682
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish writers to examine the intersection of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical...  Read More >>

The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal: Fictional Aesthetics and Memory after Postmodernism

The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal: Fictional Aesthetics...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Paulo de Medeiros (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Dr. or Prof. Ana Paula Arnaut (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
ISBN: 9798765100318
Format: Hardback
$150.00

"""The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the...  Read More >>

Open Scholarship in the Humanities

Open Scholarship in the Humanities

Author: Paul Longley Arthur ,  Lydia Hearn
ISBN: 9781350232273
Format: Hardback
$90.00

Exploring the rise of open scholarship in the digital era and its transformational impact on how knowledge is created,...  Read More >>

Poesis in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust

Poesis in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust...

Author: Prof. or Dr. Daniel Feldman ,  Prof. or Dr. Efraim Sicher
ISBN: 9798765100189
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""This innovative study asks how genocide can be witnessed through imaginative literature and affect readers who...  Read More >>

Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction: Moods and Modes of Temporality and Belonging

Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction: Moods and...

Author: Dr. Gero Bauer
ISBN: 9798765104194
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that...  Read More >>

Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction: Case Studies in Novel Reflexivity

Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction:...

Author: Professor or Dr. Christopher Weinberger
ISBN: 9798765105382
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""Discovers innovative methods for coming to terms with urgent questions about the ethics and value of the novel...  Read More >>

The Emerging Contours of the Medium: Literature and Mediality

The Emerging Contours of the Medium: Literature and...

Author: Richard Müller (Institute of Czech Literature, CAS, Czech Republic)
ISBN: 9781501398674
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""Explores a crucial - yet largely neglected - aspect of media thinking, focusing particularly on the 'mediality'...  Read More >>

The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age

The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age

Author: Dr. Ned Curthoys
ISBN: 9798765103890
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Explores influential historical fictions about the Holocaust that deploy narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman...  Read More >>

Criminal Genius in African American and Us Literature, 1793-1845

Criminal Genius in African American and Us Literature,...

Author: Erin Forbes
ISBN: 9781421443768
Format: Paperback
$82.99

"""An investigation on how the development of conceptions of genius relate to struggles over enslavement and carceral...  Read More >>

Juli Zeh: Text und Engagement

Juli Zeh: Text und Engagement

Author: Erik Schilling
ISBN: 9783662680506
Format: Paperback
$224.37

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Psychedelic Modernism: Literature and Film

Psychedelic Modernism: Literature and Film

Author: Raj Chandarlapaty
ISBN: 9781648898235
Format: Hardback
$205.92

The primary purpose of 'Psychedelic Modernism: Literature and Film' is to trace the development of ideas and perspectives...  Read More >>

Women’s Representations from Radical Naturalism to the New Woman Response

Women’s Representations from Radical Naturalism to the...

Author: José F. Rojas-Viana
ISBN: 9781648899416
Format: Paperback
$102.96

In this book, Rojas explores comparatively the representations of deviant and criminal women in the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration

Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration...

Author: Herald Weinrich ,  Jane K. Brown
ISBN: 9781531503338
Format: Hardback
$257.99

Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages...  Read More >>

Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France

Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France

Author: Thomas Wynn (Professor of French, Professor of French, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198895329
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Thomas Wynn explores how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, the mode of closet drama:...  Read More >>

Criminal Genius in African American and Us Literature, 1793-1845

Criminal Genius in African American and Us Literature,...

Author: Erin Forbes
ISBN: 9781421443751
Format: Hardback
$224.00

"""An investigation on how the development of conceptions of genius relate to struggles over enslavement and carceral...  Read More >>

Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre

Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and...

Author: Dara Rossman Regaignon
ISBN: 9780814257890
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Traces the rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety in Victorian literature, bringing uptake and genre ecology into...  Read More >>

Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable

Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable...

Author: Timothy Cleveland
ISBN: 9781793614865
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Beyond Words argues that some works of fiction and poetry are especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding...  Read More >>

A Course in Cyborg Semiotics

A Course in Cyborg Semiotics

Author: Mick Howard
ISBN: 9781793626851
Format: Hardback
$169.00

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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses

Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses

Author: Paula Byrne
ISBN: 9780008322267
Format: Paperback
$37.99

A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He...  Read More >>

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