Literary theory books

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Utopia and Its Discontents: Plato to Atwood

Utopia and Its Discontents: Plato to Atwood

Author: Dr Sebastian Mitchell (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781441109637
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Utopia and Its Discontents traces literary representations of ideal communities from Plato to the 21st century....  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child: Arendt, Agamben, and the (Ir)responsibilities of Literary Creation

J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child: Arendt, Agamben,...

Author: Dr Charlotta Elmgren (Stockholm University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781350249462
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee’s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this...  Read More >>

Intersectional Trauma in American Women Writers' Incest Novels from the 1990s

Intersectional Trauma in American Women Writers' Incest...

Author: Marinella Rodi-Risberg
ISBN: 9783030966188
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book explores the intersections of sexualized, gendered, and racialized traumas in five US novels about father-daughter...  Read More >>

Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture

Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern...

Author: Leslie Heywood
ISBN: 9780520357075
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination

Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler...

Author: Taylor Eggan
ISBN: 9780813946832
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in...  Read More >>

Beckett and Media

Beckett and Media

Author: Balazs Rapcsak ,  Mark Nixon
ISBN: 9781526145833
Format: Hardback
$175.00

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Translocality in Contemporary City Novels

Translocality in Contemporary City Novels

Author: Lena Mattheis
ISBN: 9783030666897
Format: Paperback
$314.16

Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly...  Read More >>

The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage

The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage

Author: Lisa Hopkins
ISBN: 9781501520334
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book...  Read More >>

Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature: Echoes from the Front Lines

Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature: Echoes from...

Author: Françoise Davoine ,  Agnes Jacob
ISBN: 9781032190839
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This book presents unique insight into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic,...  Read More >>

The Lyric Subject: A Reconceptualization

The Lyric Subject: A Reconceptualization

Author: Wojciech H. Kalaga ,  Varja Balžalorsky Antić
ISBN: 9783631833636
Format: Hardback
$128.60

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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
ISBN: 9780008518035
Format: Paperback
$17.99

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. ‘Astounding’ Sebastian...  Read More >>

Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature: Echoes from the Front Lines

Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature: Echoes from...

Author: Françoise Davoine ,  Agnes Jacob
ISBN: 9781032190815
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book presents unique insight into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic,...  Read More >>

Eco-Travel: Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene

Eco-Travel: Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene...

Author: Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin)
ISBN: 9781108823340
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element explores human travel encounters with the environment over the centuries and asks, what is the future...  Read More >>

Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation

Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century:...

Author: Heather Bozant Witcher (Auburn University, Montgomery)
ISBN: 9781316513491
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Celebrating plurality in collaboration and underscoring the truly social nature of nineteenth-century writing, Heather...  Read More >>

Textuelle Dramaturgie: Eine Methode der Theatertextanalyse

Textuelle Dramaturgie: Eine Methode der Theatertextanalyse...

Author: Kerstin Mertenskötter
ISBN: 9783662650127
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Ein Blick in die aktuellen Spielpläne der Theater der Gegenwart offenbart ein offenes und hetero-genes Feld an Textformen...  Read More >>

Into Our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective

Into Our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary...

Author: Neil Lazarus
ISBN: 9781802070101
Format: Hardback
$269.10

A study of the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, emphasising the 'worlding' of capitalist...  Read More >>

After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century

After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First...

Author: Colleen Lye (University of California, Berkeley) ,  Christopher Nealon
ISBN: 9781108489287
Format: Hardback
$204.39

This book updates Marxist literary study for today. It showcases fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature

The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature

Author: Heekyoung Cho
ISBN: 9780367348496
Format: Hardback
$462.00

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Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis

Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis...

Author: Jamieson Webster
ISBN: 9780231184090
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Part memoir, part clinical case, part theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Jamieson Webster...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures

The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures...

Author: Peter Marks ,  Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
ISBN: 9783030886530
Format: Hardback
$465.72

The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old....  Read More >>

Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses

Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism,...

Author: Niklaus Largier
ISBN: 9781503631045
Format: Paperback
$52.95

From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience,...  Read More >>

Facilitating LGBTQIA+ Allyship through Multimodal Writing in the Elementary Classroom: Preparing Teachers to Challenge Heteronormativity

Facilitating LGBTQIA+ Allyship through Multimodal Writing...

Author: Judith M. Dunkerly (Old Dominion University, USA.) ,  Julia Poplin (Minnesota State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367628185
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book reports findings of a qualitative study intended to disrupt notions of heteronormativity amongst pre-service...  Read More >>

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