Literary theory books

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Bicycle

Bicycle

Author: Dr Jonathan Maskit
ISBN: 9781501338090
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory

The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory

Author: Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA) ,  Professor Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)
ISBN: 9781501380921
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Disciplines from literary studies to environmentalism have recently undergone a spectacular reorientation that has...  Read More >>

Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature

Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature

Author: Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez (Sam Sharpe Teacher’s College, Jamaica)
ISBN: 9781501384912
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Traces the emergence and development of a circular narrative trend in 20th-century European literature, exploring...  Read More >>

The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images

The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images

Author: Dr Chris Gavaler (Washington and Lee University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350245952
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"Answering foundational questions like ""what is a comic"" and ""how do comics work"" in original and imaginative...  Read More >>

Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By

Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New...

Author: Arran Stibbe
ISBN: 9781350263123
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Econarratives are all around us, describing and shaping human interactions with other species and the physical environment....  Read More >>

Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature: Afterlives of the Nightingale’s Song

Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early...

Author: Marion A. Wells
ISBN: 9783031277207
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersection...  Read More >>

Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The...

Author: Stefan H. Uhlig
ISBN: 9781512824155
Format: Hardback
$198.00

In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary...  Read More >>

This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing

This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing...

Author: Andrew Bennett ,  Nicholas Royle
ISBN: 9781032293790
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called...  Read More >>

Dialectics of Love in Sartre and Lacan

Dialectics of Love in Sartre and Lacan

Author: Sinan Richards
ISBN: 9783031457975
Format: Hardback
$343.17

What is love for Sartre and Lacan? In Dialectics of Love in Sartre and Lacan, Sinan Richards examines Sartre’s and...  Read More >>

Playing with Scripture: Reading Contested Biblical Texts with Gadamer and Genre Theory

Playing with Scripture: Reading Contested Biblical Texts...

Author: Andrew Judd
ISBN: 9781032623221
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book puts a creative new reading of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and literary genre theory...  Read More >>

Hiberno-Latin Saints’ ‘Lives’ in the Seventh Century: Writing Early Ireland

Hiberno-Latin Saints’ ‘Lives’ in the Seventh Century:...

Author: John Higgins
ISBN: 9781501523267
Format: Hardback
$300.93

The authors of Irish saints' Lives used the literary form of hagiography (Christian biography), miracle stories,...  Read More >>

Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins

Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins

Author: Professor Michel Chaouli
ISBN: 9780226830421
Format: Paperback
$39.95

"An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell...  Read More >>

Literature and Medicine

Literature and Medicine

Author: Anna M. Elsner (Universität St Gallen, Switzerland) ,  Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Universität Wien, Austria)
ISBN: 9781009300063
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Literature and Medicine considers how these two dynamic fields have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside...  Read More >>

Comics and Cognition: Toward a Multimodal Cognitive Poetics

Comics and Cognition: Toward a Multimodal Cognitive...

Author: Mike Borkent (Independent researcher, Independent researcher, University of British Columbia)
ISBN: 9780197509784
Format: Hardback
$187.95

Comics and Cognition develops an analytical approach to multimodal communication in comics through insights from...  Read More >>

Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture

Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture

Author: Jonathan Najarian
ISBN: 9781496849588
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Offers an interdisciplinary consideration of myriad social, cultural, and aesthetic connections. Drawing on work...  Read More >>

Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature

Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature...

Author: Zoe Roth
ISBN: 9781474497510
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.  Read More >>

The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes

The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary...

Author: Peter Adkins
ISBN: 9781474481977
Format: Paperback
$51.72

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The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017

The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature,...

Author: Hayden White ,  Robert Doran
ISBN: 9781501773594
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's...  Read More >>

Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture

Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture

Author: Jonathan Najarian
ISBN: 9781496849571
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Offers an interdisciplinary consideration of myriad social, cultural, and aesthetic connections. Drawing on work...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017

The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature,...

Author: Hayden White ,  Robert Doran
ISBN: 9781501773587
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's...  Read More >>

Relic

Relic

Author: Ed Simon (Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765102282
Format: Paperback
$21.99

"""Relic explores how a bit of bone, a scrap of rag, a chip of wood - the most prosaic of materials - have often...  Read More >>

Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical

Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries...

Author: Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago, USA) ,  Professor Mario Telò (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ISBN: 9781350377431
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"The term ""radical formalism"" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth

Author: Dr. Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State University, USA) ,  Dr. Maren Scheurer (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
ISBN: 9781501380242
Format: Hardback
$300.00

"""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

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