Literary studies: general books

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La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Sur Un Pretre Marie

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Sur Un Pretre Marie

Author: Philippe Berthier
ISBN: 9782406169109
Format: Paperback
$116.16

This issue focuses on Un Pretre marie. As well as examining its sources, it presents a range of insights into the...  Read More >>

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Antoine Volodine, Fictions Du Politique

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Antoine Volodine, Fictions...

Author: Anne Roche ,  Dominique Viart
ISBN: 9782406168645
Format: Paperback
$116.16

"This issue explores the singular work of Antoine Volodine at a time when the ""post-exotic"" system it introduced...  Read More >>

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Etats Du Roman Contemporain

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Etats Du Roman Contemporain...

Author: Jan Baetens ,  Dominique Viart
ISBN: 9782406168522
Format: Paperback
$116.16

"This reference work inaugurates the study of post-1970s contemporary literature, examining the work of the principal...  Read More >>

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Sur l'Histoire

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Sur l'Histoire

Author: Philippe Berthier
ISBN: 9782406169123
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Here, Barbey d'Aurevilly's often paradoxical relationship with history and its role in his fictional and critical...  Read More >>

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Jacques Borel, l'Imagination Autobiographique

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Jacques Borel, l'Imagination...

Author: Michel Braud ,  Joelle de Sermet
ISBN: 9782406168546
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Anyone who opens a book by Jacques Borel is struck by the quest for memorial images, their hallucinatory precision,...  Read More >>

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Langue Et Langage

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Langue Et Langage

Author: Brian T Fitch
ISBN: 9782406168089
Format: Paperback
$116.16

The first section of this issue analyzes Camus's writing from a stylistic, grammatical, and linguistic perspective....  Read More >>

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Intertextualites

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Intertextualites

Author: Pascale Auraix-Jonchiere
ISBN: 9782406169291
Format: Paperback
$116.16

This volume examines the currents that transverse and shape Barbey d'Aurevilly's writing: foreign literature, influences,...  Read More >>

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Camus Et l'Histoire

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Camus Et l'Histoire

Author: Raymond Gay-Crosier ,  Philippe Vanney
ISBN: 9782406168508
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Eleven of the articles in this issue examine Camus's complex relationship with history. They are followed by five...  Read More >>

Holmes and the Ripper: Versus Narratives

Holmes and the Ripper: Versus Narratives

Author: Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
ISBN: 9783031531835
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This study unpacks the versus corpus in its media dispersal by analysing Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper as...  Read More >>

Sanfter Exzess: Unerhorte Ordnungen in Adalbert Stifters Bunte Steine

Sanfter Exzess: Unerhorte Ordnungen in Adalbert Stifters...

Author: Lennart Fett
ISBN: 9783689000165
Format: Paperback
$105.60

"Exzesse storen nicht die Ordnung, sondern gehen aus dieser erst hervor. Wie eng Ordnung und Exzess miteinander...  Read More >>

Robert Musil in Ostasien: Transkulturelle Lekturen

Robert Musil in Ostasien: Transkulturelle Lekturen

Author: Manuel Kraus ,  Thomas Pekar
ISBN: 9783770568789
Format: Hardback
$190.08

Das Werk Robert Musils wird heute weltweit rezipiert, gerade auch in Ostasien. Diese ostasiatischen Musil-Lekturen...  Read More >>

Johann Elias Schlegel Und Das Theater: Zwischen Revision Und Reform

Johann Elias Schlegel Und Das Theater: Zwischen Revision...

Author: Leonie Suwolto ,  Sahra Puscher
ISBN: 9783770568840
Format: Hardback
$380.16

In contrast to most of present studies valuing the significance of Johann Elias Schlegel's works in the history...  Read More >>

Wopko Jensma: A Monograph: The Interface Between Poetry and Schizophrenia

Wopko Jensma: A Monograph: The Interface Between Poetry...

Author: Ayub Sheik
ISBN: 9783770568093
Format: Hardback
$409.20

Wopko Jensma's poetry constitutes an interesting and idiosyncratic response to the strife and turmoil in South Africa...  Read More >>

The Comedy of Manners

The Comedy of Manners

Author: Kenneth Muir
ISBN: 9781032215655
Format: Paperback
$60.99

First published in 1970, the introduction distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy...  Read More >>

The Art of Greek Comedy

The Art of Greek Comedy

Author: Katherine Lever
ISBN: 9781032225807
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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Comedy

Comedy

Author: L. J. Potts
ISBN: 9781032211367
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Originally published in 1949 this book is a study of comedy based on representative works of drama and narrative,...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Women and Comedy

New Perspectives on Women and Comedy

Author: Regina Barreca
ISBN: 9781032226804
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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Literary Fiction Tourism: Understanding the Practice of Fiction-Inspired Travel

Literary Fiction Tourism: Understanding the Practice...

Author: Nicola E. MacLeod
ISBN: 9780367485818
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption

Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory...

Author: Eric C Walker
ISBN: 9780814259085
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Examines literary and historical adoptions and constructions of childhood in Romantic-era England to reveal their...  Read More >>

The Classical Upaniṣads: A Guide

The Classical Upaniṣads: A Guide

Author: Signe Cohen (Associate Professor of Religion Studies, Associate Professor of Religion Studies, University of Missouri)
ISBN: 9780197654156
Format: Hardback
$228.00

The Upani.sads are rich and complex Sanskrit Hindu scriptures dating back to the 8th century BCE and are a staple...  Read More >>

A Performance History of The Fair Penitent

A Performance History of The Fair Penitent

Author: Elaine McGirr (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781009351843
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element is of the eighteenth-century performance history of The Fair Penitent demonstrates the interrelation...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945...

Author: Jen Harvie (Queen Mary University of London) ,  Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9781108432382
Format: Paperback
$59.49

British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts: 'Cut Him Out in Little Stars'

Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts: 'Cut Him...

Author: Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine, USA) ,  Ariane Helou (UCLA, USA)
ISBN: 9781350343429
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare’s plays. This volume takes...  Read More >>

Memory and Medievalism in George RR Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our Memories

Memory and Medievalism in George RR Martin and Game...

Author: Carolyne Larrington (Official Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature. Professor of Medieval European Literature, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Dr Anna Czarnowus (University of Silesia, Poland)
ISBN: 9781350269637
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book explores the connections between history and fantasy in George RR Martin’s immensely popular book series...  Read More >>

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