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Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal and Become a Published Author

Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal and Become...

Author: Lucinda Halpern (Literary Agent)
ISBN: 9781837820627
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Packed with interviews from best-selling authors, leading book editors from Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster,...  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 >>

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028684543
Format: Hardback
$1425.60

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays & Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535872409
Format: Hardback
$1425.60

"""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Nineteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535871860
Format: Hardback
$1425.60

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535872270
Format: Hardback
$1063.92

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight...  Read More >>

Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin Reader

Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin Reader

Author: Francis Ritchie ,  John Copeland Kirtland
ISBN: 9789357927888
Format: Paperback
$45.96

Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin Reader, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout...  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 >>

The Polyphony of Utopia: Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler

The Polyphony of Utopia: Critical Negativities Across...

Author: Raffaella Baccolini ,  Antonis Balasopoulos
ISBN: 9781803740553
Format: Paperback
$103.50

Building on the notion of 'critical utopia' and elaborating on interpretations of literary works as contradictory...  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 >>

The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 3: Letters to John Middleton Murry 1912-1918

The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine...

Author: Claire Davison ,  Gerri Kimber
ISBN: 9781474445528
Format: Hardback
$452.81

Volume 3 of the new authoritative edition of Katherine Mansfield's complete correspondence  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 >>

Linguistic Stratigraphy: Recovering Traces of Lost Languages in the Central Andes

Linguistic Stratigraphy: Recovering Traces of Lost Languages...

Author: Matthias Urban
ISBN: 9783031421013
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages...  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 >>

Zen Moments in Verses: A Haiku and Tanka Poetry Collection

Zen Moments in Verses: A Haiku and Tanka Poetry Collection...

Author: Gracy Judith
ISBN: 9798873243433
Format: Paperback
$19.98

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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 >>

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