Literary studies: general books

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The Jerusalem Temple and the Temple Mount: Collected Essays

The Jerusalem Temple and the Temple Mount: Collected...

Author: Joseph Patrich
ISBN: 9783161632693
Format: Hardback
$493.68

The Temple eclipsed in its splendor and importance all other institutions of the Jews, both in the Land of Israel...  Read More >>

Of Worlds and Artworks: A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora

Of Worlds and Artworks: A Relational View on Artistic...

Author: Ute Fendler ,  Marie-Anne Kohl
ISBN: 9789004689749
Format: Hardback
$282.48

This book brings together 13 contributions which reflect upon the relation between worlds and arts from Africa,...  Read More >>

Nothing Happened: A History

Nothing Happened: A History

Author: Susan A. Crane
ISBN: 9781503640115
Format: Paperback
$47.52

The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make...  Read More >>

Dangerous Innocence: White Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider's Appeal, 1960-2020

Dangerous Innocence: White Men, Mass Culture, and the...

Author: William P. Murray ,  Scott Romine
ISBN: 9780807181553
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the US South help feed and reinforce systems of...  Read More >>

L'Affaire Clementine: Une Fraude Pieuse a l'Ere Des Lumieres

L'Affaire Clementine: Une Fraude Pieuse a l'Ere Des...

Author: Stephanie Gehanne Gavoty
ISBN: 9782406164685
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The Clementine affair resulted from the publication of the Lettres du pape Clement XIV by the audacious Louis-Antoine...  Read More >>

Writing Resistance in Northern Ireland

Writing Resistance in Northern Ireland

Author: Aimée Walsh
ISBN: 9781837644681
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction

Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction

Author: Jaime Harrison
ISBN: 9781802074710
Format: Hardback
$258.75

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Parade Sauvage 2023 Revue d'Etudes Rimbaldiennes, 34 - Varia

Parade Sauvage 2023 Revue d'Etudes Rimbaldiennes, 34...

Author: Denis Saint-Amand ,  Robert St Clair
ISBN: 9782406165989
Format: Paperback
$129.36

Contributeurs: Michel Arouimi, Alain Bardel, Christophe Bataille, Adrien Cavallaro, Jean-Pierre Chambon, Jean-Louis...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations

The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts...

Author: Chi Sum Garfield Lau ,  Kelly Kar Yue Chan
ISBN: 9789819998203
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions...  Read More >>

Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose: 1800 to the Present

Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose: 1800...

Author: Richard W. Etulain
ISBN: 9781647791421
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Examines the emergence of Pacific Northwest prose beginning in the early nineteenth century up to the present. The...  Read More >>

Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature

Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African...

Author: Lovalerie King ,  Fred Hobson
ISBN: 9780807182901
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Examines African American literature’s critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular...  Read More >>

The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between Ideology and the Unconscious

The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between Ideology...

Author: Nathan Gorelick
ISBN: 9780810146761
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Traces the relations between literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins in the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

Central American Counterpoetics: Diaspora and Rememory

Central American Counterpoetics: Diaspora and Rememory...

Author: Karina Alma
ISBN: 9780816552566
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Connecting past and present, Central American Counterpoetics proposes the concepts of rememory and counterpoetics...  Read More >>

The Whole Machinery: The Rural Modern in Cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946

The Whole Machinery: The Rural Modern in Cultures of...

Author: Benjamin S. Child
ISBN: 9780820367088
Format: Paperback
$71.15

A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins. This volume explores representations...  Read More >>

A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit

A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit

Author: Hannah Regis
ISBN: 9789766409456
Format: Paperback
$59.40

A rare and penetrative exploration into Caribbean literary articulations of non-material and numinous presences....  Read More >>

La Literatura Como Reescritura: El Caso de Reinaldo Arenas

La Literatura Como Reescritura: El Caso de Reinaldo...

Author: Ofek Kehila
ISBN: 9783111314877
Format: Hardback
$261.33

This book explores the concept of rewriting in literary discourse through the work of Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas....  Read More >>

Gesten Der Entscheidung: Spielarten Von Souveränität Im Theater Pierre Corneilles (1636-1643)

Gesten Der Entscheidung: Spielarten Von Souveränität...

Author: Christian Reidenbach
ISBN: 9783111284729
Format: Hardback
$348.45

Revised and abridged version of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitèat Bonn,...  Read More >>

Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Transition

Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth...

Author: James Harriman-Smith (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
ISBN: 9781108812832
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its...  Read More >>

Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel: The Bible in English Fiction 1678–1767

Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel: The Bible...

Author: Kevin Seidel (Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia)
ISBN: 9781108792165
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Unsettling the usual ways we think about the relationship between religion and secularism, and focusing on scenes...  Read More >>

Staging Disgust: Rape, Shame, and Performance in Shakespeare and Middleton

Staging Disgust: Rape, Shame, and Performance in Shakespeare...

Author: Jennifer Panek (University of Ottawa)
ISBN: 9781009379823
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early...  Read More >>

Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall

Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall

Author: Herbert Weisinger
ISBN: 9781032730493
Format: Hardback
$194.00

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A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse...

Author: W. Jeffrey Tatum (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780197694909
Format: Hardback
$64.95

The fullest biography of Mark Antony in English, A Noble Ruin provides a fresh account of Antony's personal life...  Read More >>

Beckett: A Study of his Plays

Beckett: A Study of his Plays

Author: John Fletcher ,  John Spurling
ISBN: 9781032746715
Format: Hardback
$183.00

First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book...  Read More >>

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