Literary studies: general books

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Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Major

Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Major

Author: M. Tyler Sasser ,  Emma K. Atwood
ISBN: 9783031242236
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This edited collection considers the task of teaching Shakespeare in general education college courses, a task which...  Read More >>

Bad Godots: ‘Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel' and Other Interventions

Bad Godots: ‘Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel' and Other...

Author: S. E. Gontarski (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781009180719
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element focuses on the machinery of that world, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process...  Read More >>

British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour

British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour...

Author: Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor (British Academy Global Professor of Children’s Literature, Newcastle University, UK) ,  Lisa Sainsbury (University of Roehampton UK)
ISBN: 9781350196124
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Exploring a history of activists writing for and about children of colour from abolition to Black Lives Matter,...  Read More >>

Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism

Author: Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA) ,  Zahi Zalloua (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures / Whitman College, Whitman College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501393518
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Explores and illuminates Roland Barthes' profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism""--"  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Mario Perniola: From Aesthetics to Dandyism

The Philosophy of Mario Perniola: From Aesthetics to...

Author: Dr Enea Bianchi (University of Galway, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350281516
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Enea Bianchi provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering thought of 20th-century Italian philosopher,...  Read More >>

Derivative Lives: Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish Narrative

Derivative Lives: Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative...

Author: Virginia Newhall Rademacher (Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, Babson College, USA) ,  Lucia Boldrini
ISBN: 9781501386947
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Considers the surge in biographical fiction (biofiction) as a paradigm shift in our understanding of real-life...  Read More >>

Attention Spans: Garrett Stewart, a Reader

Attention Spans: Garrett Stewart, a Reader

Author: Professor or Dr. Garrett Stewart (James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of Iowa, USA) ,  Dr. David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765102220
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Attention Spans’ chronological review of Garrett Stewart’s critical approach tracks and maps the evolution of intersecting...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Author: Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350381391
Format: Paperback
$39.99

"""The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense...  Read More >>

Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination

Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and...

Author: Professor Emerita Mary Bergstein (Independent Scholar) ,  Professor Esther Rashkin (University of Utah, USA)
ISBN: 9798765111956
Format: Paperback
$44.99

"""Shows how visual culture in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected...  Read More >>

Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien's Cartographies

Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives...

Author: Dr Anahit Behrooz (Independent Researcher, Independent Researcher)
ISBN: 9781350290808
Format: Paperback
$49.99

In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien’s most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography...  Read More >>

The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations

The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations...

Author: Andriy Sodomora ,  Roman Ivashkiv
ISBN: 9798887194387
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine's ""voice"" of classical antiquity, now available in...  Read More >>

Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: Writing the Life of a Roman Emperor

Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: Writing the Life of...

Author: Keith Bradley
ISBN: 9781487548810
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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Heroic Disobedience: The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel, 1747-1880

Heroic Disobedience: The Forced Marriage Plot and the...

Author: Leah Grisham
ISBN: 9781648899232
Format: Paperback
$132.00

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Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Author: Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9781009200165
Format: Hardback
$64.69

A Byron biography like no other – published to mark the bicentennial of his death – it tells the remarkable life...  Read More >>

National Review's Literary Network: Conservative Circuits

National Review's Literary Network: Conservative Circuits...

Author: Stephen Schryer (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of New Brunswick)
ISBN: 9780198886204
Format: Hardback
$164.95

Stephen Schryer traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley,...  Read More >>

Bad Godots: ‘Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel' and Other Interventions

Bad Godots: ‘Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel' and Other...

Author: S. E. Gontarski (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781009467803
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element focuses on the machinery of that world, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process...  Read More >>

The Johannine Tradition in Late Antique and Medieval Poetry

The Johannine Tradition in Late Antique and Medieval...

Author: Michele Cutino
ISBN: 9782503608556
Format: Paperback
$298.32

"The Johannine Tradition in Late Antique and Medieval Poetry proposes to examine the impact of the Gospel of John,...  Read More >>

Bangladeshi Literature in English: Critical Essays and Interviews

Bangladeshi Literature in English: Critical Essays and...

Author: Mohammad A. Quayum (Flinders University, Australia) ,  Md. Mahmudul Hasan (International Islamic University Malaysia)
ISBN: 9781032670355
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This pioneering book brings together several critical essays on Bangladeshi writers in the English language and...  Read More >>

Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire

Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire...

Author: Alexandra Reza (Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780198896319
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Raza examines key literary journals published in French, English, and Portuguese by African writers in Europe in...  Read More >>

The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera

The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance...

Author: Dr Sarah Van der Laan (Indiana University)
ISBN: 9780198778295
Format: Hardback
$212.00

The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics...  Read More >>

Attention Spans: Garrett Stewart, a Reader

Attention Spans: Garrett Stewart, a Reader

Author: Professor or Dr. Garrett Stewart (James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of Iowa, USA) ,  Dr. David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765102237
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Attention Spans’ chronological review of Garrett Stewart’s critical approach tracks and maps the evolution of intersecting...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Author: Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350381407
Format: Hardback
$130.00

"""The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense...  Read More >>

The Afterlives of Frankenstein: Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings

The Afterlives of Frankenstein: Popular and Artistic...

Author: Professor Robert I. Lublin (Professor Theatre Arts, University of Massachusets, Boston, USA) ,  Professor Elizabeth A. Fay (Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
ISBN: 9781350351561
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations...  Read More >>

Hermeneutical Narratives in Art, Literature, and Communication

Hermeneutical Narratives in Art, Literature, and Communication...

Author: Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak ,  Paula García-Ramírez
ISBN: 9781350405431
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Exploring the relationship between hermeneutics and the arts, including painting, music, and literature, this book...  Read More >>

Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination

Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and...

Author: Professor Emerita Mary Bergstein (Independent Scholar) ,  Professor Esther Rashkin (University of Utah, USA)
ISBN: 9798765111963
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""Shows how visual culture in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected...  Read More >>

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