Arts and Humanities Sale: Literary Criticism
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MNMLA23. Code expires April 1, 2023.
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- How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters Karl Steel 2019 Fall
- From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts
- Resisting Dialogue Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent Juan Meneses 2019 Fall
- A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent
- Re-Enchanted The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Maria Sachiko Cecire 2019 Fall
- From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world
- Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring
- All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
- Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall
- Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945
- Playing with the Book Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader Hannah Field 2019 Spring
- A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts
- Glissant and the Middle Passage Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss John E. Drabinski 2019 Spring
- A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness
- Translated Nation Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Christopher Pexa 2019 Spring
- How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state
- Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
- Reading for Reform The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era Laura R. Fisher 2019 Spring
- An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century
- Anthropocene Poetics Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction David Farrier 2019 Spring
- How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time
- Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall
- A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
- Chromographia American Literature and the Modernization of Color Nicholas Gaskill 2018 Fall
- The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930
- The Poem Electric Technology and the American Lyric Seth Perlow 2018 Fall
- An enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it
- None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall
- How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own
- Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall
- Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
- The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
- Survival of the Fireflies Georges Didi-Huberman 2018 Fall
- Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism
- Circulating Queerness Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Natasha Hurley 2018 Spring
- A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives
- Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall
- An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
- Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane, Editors 2017 Spring
- Innovative essays that challenge us to imagine African American children’s literature during the slavery and reconstruction eras
- The Language of Plants Science, Philosophy, Literature Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan and Patrícia Vieira, Editors 2017 Spring
- Exploring the idea that plants can think, feel, and communicate as a way of reconfiguring our relationship with the natural world
- For All Waters Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes Lowell Duckert 2017 Spring
- The Shakespearean era’s wet writers guide our eco-way today
- Indirect Action Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism Lisa Diedrich 2016 Fall
- The interconnectedness of illness, thought, and activism prior to the arrival of AIDS in the United States
- Like Clockwork Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall, Editors 2016 Fall
- From Dragon*Con to IBM’s big data and neo-Victorianism to disability studies—the fascinating rise of an international subculture
- The Child to Come Life after the Human Catastrophe Rebekah Sheldon 2016 Fall
- A bold new reading of the child for the twenty-first century, with implications for contemporary environmentalism
- Human Programming Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Scott Selisker 2016 Fall
- The first cultural history of the idea of the programmable mind in U.S. culture, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
- The Age of Lovecraft Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editors 2016 Spring
- The first sustained look at Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture
- Speculative Blackness The Future of Race in Science Fiction André M. Carrington 2016 Spring
- Examines race through fanzines, Star Trek, comic books, and Harry Potter
- Shipwreck Modernity Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 Steve Mentz 2015 Fall
- The familiar story of shipwreck revealed as an allegory of ecological catastrophe