Literary studies: general books

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An Introduction to the French Poets: Villon to the Present Day

An Introduction to the French Poets: Villon to the Present...

Author: Geoffrey Brereton
ISBN: 9781032253015
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The French poetry of some five centuries is here surveyed in a series of studies of the work and personality of...  Read More >>

Trends And Tropes: Some Aspects of African Indigenous Literatures of South Africa

Trends And Tropes: Some Aspects of African Indigenous...

Author: E.D.M. Sibiya ,  Zilibele Mtumane
ISBN: 9781032760551
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa. These...  Read More >>

The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy

The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and...

Author: Seth Benardete ,  Ronna Burger
ISBN: 9780226826431
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This volume brings together Seth Benardete’s studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues,...  Read More >>

Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon

Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon...

Author: Delphine Rumeau
ISBN: 9798887194615
Format: Paperback
$72.99

The reception of Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. This book focuses on the Russian and Soviet uses of...  Read More >>

Time and Causality in Early Modern Drama: Plotting Revenge

Time and Causality in Early Modern Drama: Plotting Revenge...

Author: Linc Kesler
ISBN: 9781032721934
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The opening of the first theatre in 1579 created an interplay between the innovations of producers and the perceptions...  Read More >>

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Author: Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University)
ISBN: 9780192885272
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature

The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature

Author: Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University)
ISBN: 9781108843454
Format: Hardback
$310.50

This book narrates the history of queer American literature from its earliest writings to the present, telling the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life

Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life

Author: Fintan O'Toole
ISBN: 9781035908738
Format: Hardback
$29.99

The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s...

Author: John Gardner (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge) ,  David Stewart (Northumbria University, Newcastle)
ISBN: 9781009268516
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A detailed and engaging exploration of a crucial transitional period between the Romantic and Victorian ages, this...  Read More >>

Spoilt Creatures: An Observer Best Debut of 2024 - 'compelling, cultish and utterly feral' Alice Slater

Spoilt Creatures: An Observer Best Debut of 2024 - 'compelling,...

Author: Amy Twigg
ISBN: 9781035407910
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A dark, riveting literary debut about cults, transgression and female rage, for fans of Eliza Clark, Colin Walsh,...  Read More >>

In Poe's Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric

In Poe's Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric...

Author: Jonathan Elmer
ISBN: 9780226833491
Format: Paperback
$36.95

"Explores how Edgar Allan Poe has become a household name, as much a brand as an author. You'll find his face...  Read More >>

The Crusades: A Reader, Third Edition

The Crusades: A Reader, Third Edition

Author: S.J. Allen ,  Emilie Amt
ISBN: 9781487525781
Format: Paperback
$98.32

This collection of medieval primary sources provides a comprehensive view of the Crusades from multiple perspectives....  Read More >>

Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon

Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon...

Author: Delphine Rumeau
ISBN: 9798887194608
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The reception of Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. This book focuses on the Russian and Soviet uses of...  Read More >>

Karl Kraus und die Rechtsakten der Kanzlei Oskar Samek

Karl Kraus und die Rechtsakten der Kanzlei Oskar Samek...

Author: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sigurd Paul Scheichl ,  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Norbert Bachleitner
ISBN: 9783205219798
Format: Paperback
$108.24

Karl Kraus - ein unbezwingbarer Satiriker, Polemiker und beharrlicher Kämpfer ums Recht  Read More >>

Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess

Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess

Author: Kendra Y. Hamilton
ISBN: 9780820362885
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Fills a significant cultural gap in Gullah history. By giving voice to artists and culture makers on both sides...  Read More >>

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Author: Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University)
ISBN: 9780192885197
Format: Hardback
$138.95

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The...  Read More >>

The Languages of World Literature

The Languages of World Literature

Author: Achim Hermann Hölter
ISBN: 9783110574333
Format: Hardback
$345.81

This volume opens the series of papers presented at the Vienna Congress of AILC/ICLA 2016, beginning with eight...  Read More >>

Feminizid in Recht Und Literatur: Diego Z��iga, Laura Restrepo Und Fernanda Melchor Im V�lker- Und Strafrechtlichen Kontext

Feminizid in Recht Und Literatur: Diego Z��iga, Laura...

Author: Elena Von Ohlen
ISBN: 9783111355412
Format: Hardback
$319.41

This study examines the crime of femicide in the Latin American context in the novels of Diego Z��iga (Chile), Laura...  Read More >>

Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse

Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and...

Author: Alan MacEachern
ISBN: 9780228021490
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of a farm in Cavendish, PEI, already becoming known as inspiration...  Read More >>

Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place

Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place

Author: Sandhya Shukla
ISBN: 9780231208475
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish

Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew...

Author: Naomi Seidman
ISBN: 9781503639263
Format: Paperback
$68.99

"There is an academic cottage industry on the ""Jewish Freud,"" aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his...  Read More >>

Kölner Literaturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart

Kölner Literaturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis zur...

Author: Dr. Markus Schwering ,  Dr. Ulrich S. Soénius
ISBN: 9783412529765
Format: Hardback
$150.48

„Köln ist keine, war nie eine Stadt der Literatur“  Read More >>

Ein Jrdisch Paradeiß: Die Dichterin Sibylla Schwarz und ihre Zeit

Ein Jrdisch Paradeiß: Die Dichterin Sibylla Schwarz...

Author: Prof. Dr. Klaus Birnstiel ,  Prof. Dr. Christfried Böttrich
ISBN: 9783847116912
Format: Hardback
$168.96

Das poetische Paradies im Werk der frühbarocken Dichterin Sibylla Schwarz im zeitgenössischen Kontext  Read More >>

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