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Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

Author: Bob Blaisdell
ISBN: 9781496847690
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Presents a collection of twenty-two interviews, each conducted during the ten-year span in which Karl Ove Knausgaard’s...  Read More >>

Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many

Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of...

Author: Thomas P. Hillman
ISBN: 9781606354711
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Illuminates the central struggle in The Lord of the Rings to deepen understanding of the whole of Tolkien’s legendarium....  Read More >>

Textual and Critical Intersections: Conversations with Laurence Sterne and Others

Textual and Critical Intersections: Conversations with...

Author: Melvyn New
ISBN: 9780813069838
Format: Hardback
$224.40

In this collection of essays representing fifty years of scholarship on Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New brings Sterne...  Read More >>

A Popular Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women Writers: the famous, forgotten and forlorn

A Popular Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women Writers:...

Author: Russell James
ISBN: 9781738408306
Format: Paperback
$82.87

A compendious illustrated guide to those industrious but often overlooked women writers of the Victorian era: the...  Read More >>

Escenas de traducción en las literaturas de América Latina

Escenas de traducción en las literaturas de América...

Author: Rodrigo Javier Caresani ,  María Rosa Olivera-Williams
ISBN: 9781469679129
Format: Paperback
$51.70

"La traducción—un fenómeno de negociación asimétrica de lenguas e identidades—es central en los debates sobre la...  Read More >>

Disoriented Disciplines Volume 47: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature

Disoriented Disciplines Volume 47: China, Latin America,...

Author: Rosario Hubert
ISBN: 9780810146556
Format: Paperback
$89.76

Advocating for indiscipline as a core method of comparative literary studies, Disoriented Disciplines challenges...  Read More >>

The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination

The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination...

Author: Michael Golston
ISBN: 9780817361006
Format: Paperback
$105.47

An insightful monograph that does exactly what it advertises: modelling poetics based on how poetry (and some parallel...  Read More >>

Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives: Relational Worlds in Contemporary Native American Literature

Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives: Relational...

Author: Anna M. Brígido-Corachán
ISBN: 9781611864694
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Writing from a vantage point that respects tribal specificities and Indigenous sovereignty, the essays in this volume...  Read More >>

Archival Afterlives: Cixous, Derrida, and the Matter of Friendship

Archival Afterlives: Cixous, Derrida, and the Matter...

Author: Laura Hughes
ISBN: 9780810146273
Format: Paperback
$95.04

Over the course of their friendship, Helene Cixous and Jacques Derrida assembled archives of written experiments...  Read More >>

Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context: Reformer and Social Critic, 1869-1910

Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context: Reformer...

Author: Leslie Diane Myrick ,  Gary Scharnhorst
ISBN: 9780817361044
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The first book-length treatment of Mark Twain’s public persona as depicted in newspaper and magazine illustrations....  Read More >>

Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Jessica Tanner
ISBN: 9780810145849
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Explores how prostitutes depicted by Emile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Adolphe Tabarant, and...  Read More >>

Pushkin, the Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism

Pushkin, the Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism

Author: Emily Wang
ISBN: 9780299345808
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Through careful readings of the literature of Pushkin and others...  Read More >>

Anything but Novel: Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative

Anything but Novel: Pushing the Margins in Latin American...

Author: Jennie Irene Daniels
ISBN: 9780817321734
Format: Hardback
$290.40

The first in-depth study in English to analyse post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of...  Read More >>

The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New Concept

The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New...

Author: Ewan Jones
ISBN: 9780813950303
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Incredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used. It likewise had no cultural...  Read More >>

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal,...

Author: Kait Pinder ,  Joel Deshaye
ISBN: 9781771125611
Format: Hardback
$152.90

Essay collection on Leonard Cohen's work organized by the concept of ‘the contemporary’, which helps to explain...  Read More >>

The Cat that Walked by Himself and Other Cat Stories

The Cat that Walked by Himself and Other Cat Stories...

Author:
ISBN: 9780008619930
Format: Paperback
$9.99

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American...

Author: Yogita Goyal (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781009159722
Format: Paperback
$59.49

African American literary production has changed in astounding ways since the 1970s. This book provides a systematic...  Read More >>

Dwelling in Fiction Volume 46: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America

Dwelling in Fiction Volume 46: Poetics of Place and...

Author: Ashley R. Brock
ISBN: 9780810146525
Format: Paperback
$95.04

The radical formal experiments undertaken by writers across Latin America in the mid-twentieth century introduced...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American...

Author: Yogita Goyal (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781009159715
Format: Hardback
$194.06

African American literary production has changed in astounding ways since the 1970s. This book provides a systematic...  Read More >>

Fábula del Poder: Corporalidad, Biopolítica y Violencia en la Narrativa de Sergio Ramírez

Fábula del Poder: Corporalidad, Biopolítica y Violencia...

Author: Daniel Chávez Landeros
ISBN: 9781612499062
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Despite the gravity and violence present in many of Sergio Ramirez Mercado’s short stories and novels, his writing...  Read More >>

Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/Practice/Politics

Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/Practice/Politics...

Author: Paulette M. Rothbauer ,  Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad
ISBN: 9781771121736
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Explores the experience of reading-what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under...  Read More >>

Fábula del Poder: Corporalidad, Biopolítica y Violencia en la Narrativa de Sergio Ramírez

Fábula del Poder: Corporalidad, Biopolítica y Violencia...

Author: Daniel Chávez Landeros
ISBN: 9781612499055
Format: Hardback
$169.40

Despite the gravity and violence present in many of Sergio Ramirez Mercado’s short stories and novels, his writing...  Read More >>

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