Literary theory books

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Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction...

Author: Amy De'Ath
ISBN: 9781503643840
Format: Hardback
$300.00

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the wayour lives are shaped...  Read More >>

On Human Excellence: Its Nature…Its Invitation…Its Pursuit…Its Acquisition…Its Challenges…Its Rewards…Its Promise…

On Human Excellence: Its Nature…Its Invitation…Its Pursuit…Its...

Author: S Rutherford McDill Jr.
ISBN: 9781035845606
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Everyone uses the word, usually somewhat in awe, certainly with respect; Alfred Nobel by means of his will left...  Read More >>

Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century

Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century

Author: Mark William Roche ,  Kirill Saveliev
ISBN: 9798901271025
Format: Paperback
$81.84

Это не просто очередная ламентация по поводу «измов» и канонов. Книга исследует взаимодействие литературы с этикой:...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World

Author: Kristin M.S. Bezio (University of Richmond, USA)
ISBN: 9781032230931
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World examines some of the most pressing issues about identity and so-called...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire...

Author: Auritro Majumder (University of Houston)
ISBN: 9781009554404
Format: Paperback
$72.45

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

Fiktionsstufen: Von Sinn und Chance ihrer Nivellierung

Fiktionsstufen: Von Sinn und Chance ihrer Nivellierung...

Author: Tomasz Waszak
ISBN: 9783662720059
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Einerseits geht es um präzise Erfassung von Einzelphänomenen wie Unzuverlässigkeit (Darstellung imaginärer Entitäten,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World

Author: Kristin M.S. Bezio (University of Richmond, USA)
ISBN: 9781032230955
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World examines some of the most pressing issues about identity and so-called...  Read More >>

American Narrative Realism: The Novel, Film, Television, and Theater

American Narrative Realism: The Novel, Film, Television,...

Author: David R. Shumway (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009660099
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Realism has been disparaged for over a hundred years as an outmoded form, and, more recently, as a pernicious illusion,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire...

Author: Auritro Majumder (University of Houston)
ISBN: 9781009554381
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

Devised Truths and the Transmedial Construction of Worlds

Devised Truths and the Transmedial Construction of Worlds...

Author: Vasso Giannakopoulou ,  Elin Sütiste
ISBN: 9783031930829
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the...  Read More >>

Love, Despair, and Modernism in Literature

Love, Despair, and Modernism in Literature

Author: Alberto Castelli
ISBN: 9781041196594
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This groundbreaking volume challenges conventional scholarship by illuminating a critical blind spot in modernist...  Read More >>

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological Study

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological...

Author: Ármann Jakobsson
ISBN: 9783032111869
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt

Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics...

Author: Jean Walton (Professor Emerita in the Department of English, University of Rhode Island)
ISBN: 9781399532938
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524292
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

Disrupting Narrative Rhetoric: Experimental Fictionality on Digital Platforms

Disrupting Narrative Rhetoric: Experimental Fictionality...

Author: Stefan Iversen
ISBN: 9780814216071
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Investigates how experimental uses of fictionality on digital platforms transform public storytelling, playing with...  Read More >>

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and...

Author: Tony Fabijančić
ISBN: 9781041123002
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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The Scholar-Critic: An Introduction to Literary Research

The Scholar-Critic: An Introduction to Literary Research...

Author: F. W. Bateson
ISBN: 9781032642734
Format: Paperback
$77.60

First Published in 1972, The Scholar-Critic argues that it's a mistake to consider literary criticism and literary...  Read More >>

Rama Rasa: Transcendence and Worldliness in the Ramayana Tradition

Rama Rasa: Transcendence and Worldliness in the Ramayana...

Author: Nikhil Govind (Head of the Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India.)
ISBN: 9789361313097
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Given the enormous interest in the religious and cultural figure of Rama, this book analyzes key classical texts...  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

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black

The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black

Author: Michael E. Sawyer
ISBN: 9781439925577
Format: Paperback
$86.99

""This book offers a new system of speculative theory and philosophy that proposes the manner in which Black people...  Read More >>

The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black

The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black

Author: Michael E. Sawyer
ISBN: 9781439925560
Format: Hardback
$291.72

""This book offers a new system of speculative theory and philosophy that proposes the manner in which Black people...  Read More >>

Neo-Victorian Decadence: Media, Genres, Eras

Neo-Victorian Decadence: Media, Genres, Eras

Author: Kostas Boyiopoulos ,  Joseph Thorne
ISBN: 9789004747302
Format: Hardback
$364.32

This is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines the overlooked cross-pollination between Fin-de-siècle...  Read More >>

Serial Fiction in the Western World: History and Theory

Serial Fiction in the Western World: History and Theory...

Author: Giovanni Ragone ,  Antonio Rafele
ISBN: 9781041067917
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This volume traces the evolution of serial forms from antiquity to the digital age, exploring their role in literature,...  Read More >>

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