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  • A Sense of the World

    Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge

    Edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, Luca Pocci ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate.The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work of analytic ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

    by Steven J. Venturino PhD ...
    From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Narratology

    Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

    by Mieke Bal ...
    Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills years of study of the ways in which we understand both literary and non-literary works. In this ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Theory of Literature

    by Paul H. Fry ...
    Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?Fry engages with the major themes and strands ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Event of Literature

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Literary Theory Toolkit

    A Compendium of Concepts and Methods

    by Herman Rapaport ...
    The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context.Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and genresFeatures a chapter on performance, something not usually covered in similar textsCovers differing theories of the public sphere, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old

    New Directions from Old

    Edited by David Rampton ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study of literature and illuminates its fruitful intersection with a variety of other fields, including film, cultural studies, linguistics, and feminism. Many of the contributors draw upon the early ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

    by Richard Eldridge ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, architecture, movies, conceptual art and performance art. This second edition incorporates significant new research on topics including pictorial depiction, musical expression, conceptual art, Hegel, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

    Edited by Peter Childs, Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Dictionaries
    A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes:an exhaustive range of entries, covering ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic

    Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies

    by Elena Lamberti ...
    One hundred years after Marshall McLuhan’s birth, Elena Lamberti explores a fundamental, yet neglected aspect of his work: the solid humanistic roots of his original ‘mosaic’ form of writing. In this investigation of how his famous communication theories were influenced by literature and the arts, Lamberti proposes a new approach to McLuhan’s thought.Lamberti delves into McLuhan’s humanism in ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Incontinence of the Void

    Economico-Philosophical Spandrels

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Žižek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Literary Theory

    An Anthology

    Edited by Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan ...
    Series series Blackwell Anthologies
    The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to PostcolonialismExpanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant ... Read more

    $43.00 CAD