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  • Key Concepts in Literary Theory, Second Editionby Julian Wolfreys; Ruth Robbins; Kenneth Womack

    Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 25.85

    Presents 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 Endingby Frank Kermode

    Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 18.99

    Frank 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 Culturesby Angelita Reyes

    University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 60.00

    Blending 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 Writingby D. Emily Hicks; Neil Larsen

    University of Minnesota Press 1991; US$ 81.00

    A paradigmatic contribution to literary theory and interpretation out of the writings of Latin America. more...

  • About Timeby Mark Currie

    Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 119.40

    About 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 Basicsby Hans Bertens

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 21.95

    With 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 Faulknerby Jo Alyson Parker

    Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00

    This 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 Literatureby Marjorie Garber

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.95

    As 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 Literatureby Jean-Jacques Lecercle

    Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 123.50

    Why 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 Emotionby Patrick Colm Hogan

    Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 72.00

    Explores emotion in a range of literary works, in the context of current neurobiological, psychological, sociological and other empirical research. more...