Literary theory books

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The Cambridge History of the British Essay

The Cambridge History of the British Essay

Author: Denise Gigante (Stanford University, California) ,  Jason Childs
ISBN: 9781316516508
Format: Hardback
$336.38

This book provides multiple perspectives on a key form of public discourse, addressing the essay's postcolonial...  Read More >>

Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the...

Author: Sarah E. Chinn (Hunter College, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9781009442695
Format: Hardback
$77.63

The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during...  Read More >>

Understanding Whole-School Approaches to LGBTQ+ Inclusion: Theory to Inform Policy and Practice in Schools and Universities

Understanding Whole-School Approaches to LGBTQ+ Inclusion:...

Author: Jonathan Glazzard (University of Hull, England) ,  Samuel Stones (North Yorkshire, England)
ISBN: 9780367651497
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The book provides a comprehensive theoretical exploration of LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools drawing on critical insights...  Read More >>

Communautés interprétatives: Autour de Stanley Fish

Communautés interprétatives: Autour de Stanley Fish...

Author: Vincent Ferré
ISBN: 9789004696068
Format: Paperback
$234.96

Ce volume interroge les conditions de l’interprétation des textes littéraires, à la lumière des propositions de...  Read More >>

Au Revoir, Tristesse

Au Revoir, Tristesse

Author: VIV Groskop ,  Gabrielle Baker
ISBN: 9798874893583
Format: Audio
$121.41

"""Groskop skillfully juggles memoir, biography, philosophy, and literary criticism to create a delightful tour...  Read More >>

Au Revoir, Tristesse

Au Revoir, Tristesse

Author: VIV Groskop ,  Gabrielle Baker
ISBN: 9798874893590
Format: Audio
$121.31

"""Groskop skillfully juggles memoir, biography, philosophy, and literary criticism to create a delightful tour...  Read More >>

Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form: Dematerialization in Adorno, Blanchot, and Celan

Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form: Dematerialization...

Author: Jacob McGuinn
ISBN: 9780810146983
Format: Paperback
$95.04

How does literary objecthood contend with the challenge of writing objects that emerge at an extreme limit of material...  Read More >>

Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller

Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller

Author: Kirsten Reimers ,  Lydia Mühlbach
ISBN: 9783662689653
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

Author: Peter Adkins
ISBN: 9781399516686
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice

Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice...

Author: Dan Collins (Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, USA) ,  Eve Watson
ISBN: 9781032292496
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This thorough text provides a complete overview of the drive in Lacanian psychoanalysis.  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: 9781501379994
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""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)
ISBN: 9781501371226
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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

Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism

Author: Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo ,  Zahi Zalloua
ISBN: 9781501393846
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Explores and illuminates Slavoj �Zi�zek's impact on our understanding of literary and cultural 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: 9781501383915
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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

Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime petrose

Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime petrose...

Author: Robert M. Durling ,  Ronald L. Martinez
ISBN: 9780520415423
Format: Hardback
$157.95

"The Rime petrose, Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally...  Read More >>

Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body

Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics...

Author: Karen Sánchez-Eppler
ISBN: 9780520415430
Format: Hardback
$157.95

"In this striking study of the pre–Civil War literary imagination, Karen Sánchez-Eppler charts how bodily difference...  Read More >>

Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene

Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and...

Author: Lauren Silberman
ISBN: 9780520415454
Format: Hardback
$157.95

The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating...  Read More >>

Memoria Cultural Y Memorias Perif�ricas de la Guerra Civil Espa�ola Y El Franquismo: Estudios Sobre Novela, Memoria Femenina, Memoria Lgtbiq+ Y Memoria Multimedia

Memoria Cultural Y Memorias Perif�ricas de la Guerra...

Author: Ulrich Winter ,  Germ�n Labrador M�ndez
ISBN: 9783631873748
Format: Hardback
$137.14

El libro se divide en cuatro apartados que contemplan diversos aspectos de la Guerra Civil espa�ola, la posguerra...  Read More >>

Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism

Author: Dr Maria Margaroni ,  Paul Ardoin (University of Texas at San Antonio USA)
ISBN: 9798765102169
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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

Depersonalization and Creative Writing: Unreal City

Depersonalization and Creative Writing: Unreal City...

Author: Matthew Francis
ISBN: 9780367530693
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Depersonalization is a distressing symptom in which sufferers feel detached from their own selves and the world....  Read More >>

Coloniality in Discourse Studies: A Radical Critique

Coloniality in Discourse Studies: A Radical Critique...

Author: Solange Maria de Barros ,  Viviane Resende
ISBN: 9781032324609
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare: Scenes of Thanking in Shakespeare’s Plays

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare: Scenes of Thanking...

Author: Chahra Beloufa
ISBN: 9781032727141
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity: Sinon’s Borrowed Tears

Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity: Sinon’s Borrowed...

Author: Shawn Smith
ISBN: 9780367696412
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action...  Read More >>

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