Literary studies: general books

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The Misfortunes of Arthur: A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition

The Misfortunes of Arthur: A Critical, Old-Spelling...

Author: Thomas Hughes ,  Brian J. Corrigan
ISBN: 9781032700670
Format: Hardback
$173.00

The Misfortunes of Arthur, written by Thomas Hughes is one of the earliest printed plays from the English Renaissance...  Read More >>

Gifted-ish: Women and Nonbinary Writers on Intelligence, Identity and Education

Gifted-ish: Women and Nonbinary Writers on Intelligence,...

Author: Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips
ISBN: 9781476692425
Format: Paperback
$127.60

Offers personal accounts from diverse voices, each one considered a ‘gifted kid’ in their youth, and considers questions...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 2, 1066–1500

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume...

Author: Carolinne White (University of Oxford) ,  Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781107186576
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 1, 450–1066

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume...

Author: Carolinne White (University of Oxford) ,  Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781107186514
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during...  Read More >>

Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700

Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700

Author: Robert D. Hume (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781009454124
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby...  Read More >>

Latin American Poetry: Intersections, Translations, Encounters

Latin American Poetry: Intersections, Translations,...

Author: Henrieke Stahl ,  Hermann Korte
ISBN: 9783631913758
Format: Paperback
$98.32

This volume contains a selection of texts on Latin American poetry, their approaches can be assigned to three distinct...  Read More >>

Woden: A Historical Companion

Woden: A Historical Companion

Author: Stephen Pollington
ISBN: 9781961361065
Format: Hardback
$118.77

All-father, warlord, runemaster, kingmaker, healer-manifold aspects, numerous stories. This book brings together...  Read More >>

Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change

Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production...

Author: Carolyn Fornoff
ISBN: 9780826506177
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Argues for the importance of ecocritical approaches within the field of Mexican Studies. This book engages with...  Read More >>

The Paradox of Paradise: Creative Destruction and the Rise of Urban Coastal Tourism in Contemporary Spanish Culture

The Paradox of Paradise: Creative Destruction and the...

Author: William Nichols
ISBN: 9780826506214
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Focuses on the trajectory of urban coastal tourism in Spain from the late Franco years to the present through the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface

Author: Liz Oakley-Brown
ISBN: 9780367345860
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary...  Read More >>

Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa: A Christian Latin Reader

Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa:...

Author: Sarah Wear
ISBN: 9781949822168
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Features the entirety of Tertullian's To Martyrs and The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, with selections from...  Read More >>

Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses

Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses

Author: Paula Byrne
ISBN: 9780008322250
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He...  Read More >>

Menander: Untersuchungen Zur Dramatischen Technik

Menander: Untersuchungen Zur Dramatischen Technik

Author: Niklas Holzberg
ISBN: 9783911065030
Format: Hardback
$198.00

"Die zweite, grundlich uberarbeitete Auflage von Niklas Holzbergs Analyse der dramatischen Technik Menanders geht...  Read More >>

Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet's Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet's Greatest Mistakes in the...

Author: Tison Pugh
ISBN: 9780472133444
Format: Hardback
$79.20

From a vexing catalog of trees in the Knight’s Tale to the flirtations with blasphemy in the Parson’s Tale, this...  Read More >>

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Author: G.S. Fraser
ISBN: 9781032212692
Format: Paperback
$60.99

First published in 1978, Alexander Pope is an introduction to Pope’s life and work, which sets the poet solidly...  Read More >>

The Art of Discrimination: Thomson's The Seasons and the Language of Criticism

The Art of Discrimination: Thomson's The Seasons and...

Author: Ralph Cohen
ISBN: 9781032169460
Format: Paperback
$88.99

"First published in 1964, The Art of Discrimination is a study in the relation between critical theory and practice,...  Read More >>

English Literature Between the Wars

English Literature Between the Wars

Author: B. Ifor Evans
ISBN: 9781032169323
Format: Paperback
$60.99

First published in 1948, English Literature Between the Wars sets out to answer a question: to what extent did the...  Read More >>

The Prose of Allan Ramsay

The Prose of Allan Ramsay

Author: Rhona Brown ,  Craig Lamont
ISBN: 9781399506977
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Provides the first reliable textual edition of all extant prose writings by Allan Ramsay  Read More >>

Heine-Jahrbuch 2023

Heine-Jahrbuch 2023

Author: Sabine Brenner-Wilczek
ISBN: 9783662681114
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Darüber hinaus enthält er Studien von Hartmut Reinhardt über Heine und das Königtum, Eckart Pastor über Heines kreativen...  Read More >>

Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture

Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British...

Author: Isabelle Hesse
ISBN: 9781399523677
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Examines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987...  Read More >>

The Renaissance Battle for Rome: Competing Claims to an Idealized Past in Humanist Latin Poetry

The Renaissance Battle for Rome: Competing Claims to...

Author: Dr Susanna de Beer (Director of Ancient Studies and Classical Receptions at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and Senior Lecturer in (Renaissance) Latin Literature at Leiden University)
ISBN: 9780198878902
Format: Hardback
$178.95

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines a rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between many parties seeking...  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism in the Contemporary Novel

J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism...

Author: Marc Farrant
ISBN: 9781399507783
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions...  Read More >>

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