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Key Concepts in Literary Theory, Second Edition
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 25.85Presents the student of literary and critical studies with a range of definitions of the significant terms and concepts used in psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial literary studies. This volume also provides useful discussions of the main areas of literary, critical and cultural theory. more...
The Sense of an Ending
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 18.99Frank Kermode contributes a new epilogue to his collection of lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. more...
Mothering across Cultures
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 60.00Blending the personal and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, Angelita Reyes draws on a wide range of texts from Africa and the African diaspora to establish mothering as a paradigm of progressive feminisms. Reyes creates a comparative dialogue among the fictions of five postcolonial women writers: Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Simone... more...
Border Writing
University of Minnesota Press 1991; US$ 81.00A paradigmatic contribution to literary theory and interpretation out of the writings of Latin America. more...
About Time
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 119.40About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives... more...
Literary Theory: the Basics
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 21.95With a new introduction and fully updated pointers to further reading, this second edition of Hans Bertens? bestselling book is a must-have guide to the world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to post-modernism and new historicism it includes new coverage of: the latest developments... more...
Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00This study demonstrates how the insights afforded us by chaos theory can be applied to the analysis of narrative structure and meaning. more...
The Use and Abuse of Literature
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.95As defining as Christopher Lasch?s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom?s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D?Souza?s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber?s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times. Even as the decline of the reading of literature, as argued by the National... more...
Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 123.50Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? And to what extent does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? Anyone who has read contemporary European philosophers has had to ask such questions. This book is the first attempt to answer them, by considering the strong readings Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze... more...
What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 72.00Explores emotion in a range of literary works, in the context of current neurobiological, psychological, sociological and other empirical research. more...









