Literary theory books

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Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone Fiction

Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone...

Author: Prof. or Dr. Robinson Murphy
ISBN: 9798765102176
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""Castration desire theorizes an alternative form of masculinity in global literature that is less egocentric and...  Read More >>

The Geschlecht Complex: Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology

The Geschlecht Complex: Addressing Untranslatable Aspects...

Author: Dr. Oscar Jansson (Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Researcher, Lund University, Sweden) ,  Dr. David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501381966
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The polysemous German word Geschlecht -- denoting gender, genre, kind, kinship, species, race, and somehow also...  Read More >>

Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family

Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and...

Author: Kristin Mahoney (Michigan State University)
ISBN: 9781009011501
Format: Paperback
$49.14

This book draws on archival materials, such as diaries, correspondence, and photo albums, to tell the stories of...  Read More >>

The Annals of Tacitus: Book 4

The Annals of Tacitus: Book 4

Author: A. J. Woodman (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9781108411479
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges

Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges...

Author: Jan Alber ,  Brian Richardson
ISBN: 9780814255643
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Provides extensions and reconceptions of unnatural narratology, and intervenes in major debates in narratology,...  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 >>

White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages

White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages

Author: Wan-Chuan Kao (Assistant Professor of English)
ISBN: 9781526145802
Format: Hardback
$125.99

This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across...  Read More >>

Narrating the Many Autisms: Identity, Agency, Mattering

Narrating the Many Autisms: Identity, Agency, Mattering...

Author: Anna Stenning (University of Worcester, UK)
ISBN: 9780367478384
Format: Hardback
$273.00

A stirring and meaningful departure from atomized accounts of neurological difference, Narrating the Many Autisms...  Read More >>

Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth–Century English Robinsonade

Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth–Century English Robinsonade...

Author: Jakub Lipski
ISBN: 9789004690455
Format: Paperback
$163.68

Exploring the metamorphoses of the body as a crucial aspect of the Robinsonade’s ideologies in the eighteenth century...  Read More >>

Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits

Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits...

Author: Jason Allen-Paisant (Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing, Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780192867223
Format: Hardback
$181.13

In this inventive and thoughtful study, renowned poet Jason Allen-Paisant provides a timely critical reappraisal...  Read More >>

Modernist Waterscapes: Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf

Modernist Waterscapes: Water, Imagination and Materiality...

Author: Marlene Dirschauer
ISBN: 9783031134234
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics.  Read More >>

Dancing an Embodied Sinthome: Beyond Phallic Jouissance

Dancing an Embodied Sinthome: Beyond Phallic Jouissance...

Author: Megan Sherritt
ISBN: 9783031423260
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the art of dance and explores...  Read More >>

Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements

Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements...

Author: Basil Arnould Price ,  Jane Elizabeth Bonsall
ISBN: 9783031126499
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Enacting a dialogue between medieval studies, feminist thought, and queer theory, Medieval Mobilities proposes that...  Read More >>

Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives

Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European...

Author: Cheri Colby Langdell
ISBN: 9783031131592
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. Spanning Merwin’s...  Read More >>

Kollektive Autor:innenschaft – digital/analog

Kollektive Autor:innenschaft – digital/analog

Author: Michael Gamper ,  Anna Luhn
ISBN: 9783662677032
Format: Paperback
$211.17

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Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction

Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles...

Author: Annika Eisenberg
ISBN: 9783031167362
Format: Paperback
$343.17

Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore...  Read More >>

Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders

Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing...

Author: Nora Foster Stovel
ISBN: 9783031114823
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This collection of essays explores celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields’s experimentation with the essay genre...  Read More >>

World Literature in the Soviet Union

World Literature in the Soviet Union

Author: Galin Tihanov ,  Anne Lounsbery
ISBN: 9798887194158
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This is the first volume to reconstruct and examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional...  Read More >>

The Other Synaesthesia

The Other Synaesthesia

Author: Susan Bernstein
ISBN: 9781438493619
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life

New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis...

Author: Christopher Rovee
ISBN: 9781531505127
Format: Paperback
$64.99

New Critical Nostalgia explores literary study’s nostalgic attachments to its past by recasting an essential episode...  Read More >>

New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life

New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis...

Author: Christopher Rovee
ISBN: 9781531505110
Format: Hardback
$227.99

New Critical Nostalgia explores literary study’s nostalgic attachments to its past by recasting an essential episode...  Read More >>

Gaia-Ästhetiken im zeitgenössischen Spielfilm: Das Wahrnehmbar-Werden der Erde in der filmischen Post/Apokalypse

Gaia-Ästhetiken im zeitgenössischen Spielfilm: Das Wahrnehmbar-Werden...

Author: Friederike Ahrens
ISBN: 9783662681954
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Gaia-Ästhetiken entwerfen Figurationen der Erde und ihrer Lebensformen, welche die Menschen dezentrieren und den...  Read More >>

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