Literary theory Books
Edinburgh University Press The Gothic and Theory
Book SynopsisThis collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Conceiving Desire
Book SynopsisDrawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors motion, space and creativity that shape desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Book SynopsisThis volume views Doris Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Narrative and Becoming
Book SynopsisRidvan Askin brings together aesthetics, contemporary North American fiction, Gilles Deleuze, narrative theory and the recent speculative turn to answer the question, 'what is narrative?'
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Classical Tradition in Modern American
Book SynopsisThis book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Queer Defamiliarisation
Book SynopsisHelen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press British AvantGarde Fiction of the 1960s
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the 1960s, revealing this to be a crucial and crucially overlooked period of British literary history.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Pina Bauschs Dance Theatre
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new reading of Pina Bausch's dance theatre, orienting it within an international legacy of performance practice.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Gertrude Steins Transmasculinity
Book SynopsisThis book argues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Gertrude Steins Transmasculinity
Book SynopsisThis thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein's life and writings through the lens of transgender theory.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Animal Writing
Book SynopsisCombining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads the fiction of Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois to propose a method of thinking of and with animals.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Queering the Second Wave
Book SynopsisExplores a series of unsung and sometimes counterintuitive resonances between second-wave feminism and queer theory in both Anglophone and Francophone contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Lara Cox and Lisa Downing; Articles: The Queer Body of MLF Literature, Anne Emmanuelle Berger; `Wittig and Davis, Woolf and Solanas (…) simmer within me’: Reading Feminist Archives in the Queer Writing of Paul B. Preciado, Elliot Evans; Fucking the body, rewriting the text: Proto-queer embodiment through textual drag in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) and Monique Wittig’s Le Corps lesbien (1973), Kayte Stokoe; Decolonial Queer Feminism in Donna Haraway’s `A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985), Lara Cox; Queering Sexism and Whiteness with Marilyn Frye, Ulrika Dahl; Anticommunal, Antiegalitarian, Antinurturing, Antiloving: Sex and the `Irredeemable’ in Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, Alex Dymock; Antisocial Feminism? Shulamith Firestone, Monique Wittig, and Proto-Queer Theory, Lisa Downing; Interviews: Interview with Paola Bacchetta; Interview with J. J. Halberstam; Interview with Clare Hemmings.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Modernist Life Histories
Book SynopsisModernist Life Histories explores how new models of embryonic development helped inspire new kinds of coming-of-age plots during the first half of the twentieth century.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry
Book SynopsisPublishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Animalities
Book SynopsisThis pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Gender Technology and the New Woman
Book SynopsisThis book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature
Book SynopsisSamuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature' addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major post-1945 works.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Muriel Spark Existentialism and the Art of Death
Book SynopsisThis book proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Soren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark's religious commitments and her artistic innovations.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Creative Involution
Book Synopsis''Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze' focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21st centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Gothic Film
Book SynopsisThis anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Renaissance Personhood
Book SynopsisUnfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Towards Romantic Periodical Studies
Book SynopsisThis book pioneers a subfield of Romantic periodical studies, distinct from its neighbours in adjacent historical periods.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions
Book SynopsisIrish Drama and the Other Revolutions 'shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Is Shylock Jewish
Book SynopsisIs Shylock Jewish' studies Shakespeare's extensive use of stories from the Hebrew Bible in 'The Merchant of Venice', and argues that Shylock and his daughter Jessica draw on recognizably Jewish ways of engaging with those narratives throughout the play.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Hieroglyphic Modernisms
Book SynopsisHieroglyphic Modernisms' explores this conjunction of hieroglyphs and modernist fiction and film, revealing how the challenge of new media spurred a fertile interplay among practitioners of old and new media forms.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love
Book SynopsisQueer Communism and the Ministry of Loveseeks to transform current narratives of midcentury literary, cultural, and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Modernism and Still Life
Book SynopsisThis book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Lyotard and Politics
Book SynopsisStuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Lyotard and Politics
Book SynopsisStuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press On Literature and Consolation
Book SynopsisProvides a deeper understanding of the comforts of reading literature
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism.
£153.00
Edinburgh University Press D. H. Lawrence and the Literary Marketplace
Book SynopsisExamines how D. H. Lawrence established a professional writing career.Trade Review"Grice provides a finely-tuned assessment of how Lawrence shaped his identity as a writer early on, through strategies and negotiations, and assistance from professional and social networks. For a comprehensive account of how Lawrence developed his talents and attained legitimacy in the literary marketplace, this book is key." -Judith Ruderman, Duke University
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain
Book SynopsisThis book shows how the AristotelianCiceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Modernist Exoskeleton
Book SynopsisFocusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Elizabeth Bowen
Book SynopsisFrom experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the way in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Ideas in Stories
Book SynopsisArgues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Writing Shame
Book SynopsisThrough readings of an array of recent texts literary and popular, fictional and autofictional, realist and experimental this book maps out a contemporary, Western, shame culture.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Beckett and Embodiment
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett?s work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett?s oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings.Trade Review"Attending to the meaning-making potential of the body in space," Amanda Dennis demonstrates the continuing value of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology for an understanding of Beckett's posthuman ecology. Beckett and Embodiment is a timely and important study written with a keen and critical intelligence."" -Professor Jonathan Boulter, Western University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Samuel Beckett and Technology
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays is the first comprehensive discussion of the role technology plays in shaping Beckett's trademark aesthetics.Trade Review"Beckett's oeuvre is probably unique in exploring the question concerning technology across so many different genres and media: fiction, drama, poetry, radio, television and film. Collecting together contributions from a diverse range of scholars, this excellent volume illuminates Beckett's use of established and new technologies to probe the shapes and limits of human experience. It also shows how the latest technologies are playing their part in developing new understandings of both the historicity and ongoing contemporaneity of Beckett's work. " -Laura Salisbury, University of Exeter
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Reading Dylan Thomas
Book SynopsisReading Dylan Thomas attends in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects, tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Rural Modernity in Britain
Book SynopsisRural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much if not more than urban and suburban areas.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
Book SynopsisThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Readers Joyce
Book SynopsisRethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Alison Light Inside History
Book SynopsisA collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Sarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy
Book SynopsisSarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy addresses Kofman's relations with her contemporary Jacques Derrida, but also her readings of psychoanalysis, music, Shakespeare, and more. The volume closes with a previously untranslated text of hers interpreting Nietzsche and Voltaire's responses to natural catastrophe.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press NeoAvantGardes
Book SynopsisA systematic transnational investigation of post-war literary experiments in Europe and the Americas.Trade Review"Neo-Avant-Gardes provides nuanced critical perspectives on the resurgent avant-gardes active in Europe and elsewhere globally during the long 1960s". With particular focus on literary intermedia and experimental writing, the authors set out new directions in the theory and history of the neo-avant-gardes, beyond previous dismissals and defenses."" -Tyrus Miller, University of California, Irvine
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press Counterpoetics of Modernity
Book SynopsisProvides a new approach to contemporary Irish poetry.
£127.44
Edinburgh University Press Counterpoetics of Modernity
Book SynopsisProvides a new approach to contemporary Irish poetry.Trade Review"The new things that happen happen somewhere, not nowhere, and that which is counter, is counter to some specific set of circumstances. Lloyd's great strength here is to bring out into the light of critical examination the specifics of a distinctly Irish counterpoetics. in a book that I believe will be seen as a key moment in our understanding of what is most vital in Irish poetry." -Billy Mills
£18.99
