Literary studies: general books

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Literature and Science

Literature and Science

Author: B. Ifor Evans
ISBN: 9781032169132
Format: Paperback
$60.99

First published in 1954, Literature and Science discusses historically the relationship between science and literature...  Read More >>

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction...

Author: Pawe? Wojtas
ISBN: 9781399522571
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee  Read More >>

The Unfolding of The Seasons: A Study of James Thomson's Poem

The Unfolding of The Seasons: A Study of James Thomson's...

Author: Ralph Cohen
ISBN: 9781032155289
Format: Paperback
$67.99

First published in 1970, The Unfolding of The Seasons provides an interpretation of James Thomson’s poem The Seasons....  Read More >>

China Mysteries: Crime Novels from China’s Others

China Mysteries: Crime Novels from China’s Others

Author: Jeffrey C. Kinkley
ISBN: 9780824895204
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Examines more than a hundred China mysteries - many describing and analysing social and economic changes at the...  Read More >>

Imposing Fictions: Subversive Literature and the Imperative of Authenticity

Imposing Fictions: Subversive Literature and the Imperative...

Author: Thomas Phillips
ISBN: 9781680535358
Format: Hardback
$236.50

Advocating for subversive literature's capacity to impose itself on cultural and psychological preconceptions that...  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: 9780826506221
Format: Hardback
$169.40

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

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

Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production...

Author: Carolyn Fornoff
ISBN: 9780826506184
Format: Hardback
$169.40

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Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf:...

Author: Marit Grotta
ISBN: 9781399526982
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and...

Author: C. Ceyhun Arslan
ISBN: 9781399525824
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions  Read More >>

The Orient Express

The Orient Express

Author: Randy Rosenthal
ISBN: 9781666775273
Format: Paperback
$66.00

When yoga studios are ubiquitous and meditation apps are on millions of smart phones, once exotic terms like karma,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface

Author: Liz Oakley-Brown
ISBN: 9780367345914
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes: Languages of Invention

Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes:...

Author: A. J. Carruthers
ISBN: 9781399526821
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Examines Australian avant-garde poetry from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries  Read More >>

Common and Uncommon Quotes: A Theory and History of Epigraphs

Common and Uncommon Quotes: A Theory and History of...

Author: Jared A. Griffin
ISBN: 9781648898662
Format: Paperback
$153.12

This is a prolegomenon to the study of epigraphic paratextuality.  Read More >>

Der erniedrigte Christus (Volume II): Metaphern und Metonymien in der russischen Kultur und Literatur

Der erniedrigte Christus (Volume II): Metaphern und...

Author: Dirk Uffelmann ,  Irina Alekseeva
ISBN: 9798887193823
Format: Hardback
$50.59

EN This three-volume book investigates the Russian transformations of one of the central concepts of Greek Christology,...  Read More >>

Women Writing Men: 1689 to 1869

Women Writing Men: 1689 to 1869

Author: Joanne Ella Parsons (Falmouth University, UK) ,  Ruth Heholt (Falmouth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032227566
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores how women writers create and question men and masculinity. It will be of interest to academics,...  Read More >>

Cultures of Populism: Institutions, Practices and Resistance

Cultures of Populism: Institutions, Practices and Resistance...

Author: Merle A. Williams (School of Literature, Language and Media, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
ISBN: 9780367715632
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The rapid global spread of populism has become an arresting and often disturbing phenomenon in the opening decades...  Read More >>

Re-Reading the Age of Innovation: Victorians, Moderns, and Literary Newness, 1830-1950

Re-Reading the Age of Innovation: Victorians, Moderns,...

Author: Louise Kane
ISBN: 9781032043623
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Through its examinations of a wide range of texts and writers, Re-reading the Age of Innovation re-reads these texts...  Read More >>

Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World

Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the...

Author: José Juan Villagrana
ISBN: 9781032268033
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early...  Read More >>

The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature: A Feast of Blood

The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature: A Feast...

Author: Brooke Cameron ,  Lara Karpenko
ISBN: 9781032001784
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Posthuman Pathogenesis: Contagion in Literature, Arts, and Media

Posthuman Pathogenesis: Contagion in Literature, Arts,...

Author: Başak Ağın ,  Şafak Horzum
ISBN: 9781032264288
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond: Writing Musically

The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond: Writing...

Author: Zoltan Varga (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
ISBN: 9781032025858
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Drawing on the analogy between musical meaning-making and human subjectivity, this book develops the concept of...  Read More >>

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