Literary studies: general books

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Historicizing Modernists: Approaches to ‘Archivalism’

Historicizing Modernists: Approaches to ‘Archivalism’...

Author: Dr Matthew Feldman (University of York, UK) ,  Anna Svendsen
ISBN: 9781350215085
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Focussing upon both canonical figures such as Woolf, Eliot, Pound, and Stein and emergent themes such as Christian...  Read More >>

The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World

The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence,...

Author: Allan Kilner-Johnson
ISBN: 9781350255340
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which...  Read More >>

Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature: Afterlives of the Nightingale’s Song

Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early...

Author: Marion A. Wells
ISBN: 9783031277207
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersection...  Read More >>

Hellenistic Literature and Culture: Studies in Honor of Susan A. Stephens

Hellenistic Literature and Culture: Studies in Honor...

Author: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Ohio State University, USA) ,  Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne (University of Virginia, USA)
ISBN: 9781350286016
Format: Hardback
$200.00

In this book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period....  Read More >>

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

Author: Douglas RJ. Small (Edge Hill University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350400092
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th...  Read More >>

Finding Duende: Duende: Play and Theory | Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion

Finding Duende: Duende: Play and Theory | Imagination,...

Author: Federico García Lorca ,  José Javier León
ISBN: 9781736189375
Format: Paperback
$46.95

A new translation of Federico García Lorca’s captivating lecture on duende. For years, Federico García Lorca’s...  Read More >>

Female Voices and Egyptian Independence: Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction

Female Voices and Egyptian Independence: Marginalized...

Author: Rania M. Mahmoud
ISBN: 9780755651047
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist...  Read More >>

Reading Novels Translingually: Twenty-First-Century Case Studies

Reading Novels Translingually: Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Julie Hansen
ISBN: 9781644698778
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This book analyzes how literary fiction depicts multilingual worlds by incorporating multiple languages into the...  Read More >>

Staging ""The Mysterious Mother""

Staging ""The Mysterious Mother""

Author: Cynthia E. Roman ,  Jill Campbell
ISBN: 9780300263657
Format: Hardback
$113.95

The first book-length study of Horace Walpole’s scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an...  Read More >>

The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form

The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form

Author: Terry Eagleton
ISBN: 9780300274295
Format: Hardback
$34.95

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners  Read More >>

“‘Faith’ is a fine invention”: Dickinson’s Performance of Doubt and Belief

“‘Faith’ is a fine invention”: Dickinson’s Performance...

Author: Regina Yoong
ISBN: 9789819996834
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in...  Read More >>

Recherche littéraire / Literary Research: Automne / Fall 2023

Recherche littéraire / Literary Research: Automne /...

Author: Marc Maufort
ISBN: 9782875749598
Format: Paperback
$137.14

Recherche littéraire / Literary Research has for mission to inform comparative literature scholars worldwide of...  Read More >>

Horace

Horace

Author: Andreas T. Zanker
ISBN: 9789004693876
Format: Paperback
$221.76

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This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing

This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing...

Author: Andrew Bennett ,  Nicholas Royle
ISBN: 9781032285849
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called...  Read More >>

Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The...

Author: Stefan H. Uhlig
ISBN: 9781512824155
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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Stefan George: The Homosexual Imaginary

Stefan George: The Homosexual Imaginary

Author: Peter Morgan
ISBN: 9781839542299
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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Konflikt Und Vermittlung: Die Okonomie Des Romans in Der Fruhen Neuzeit (Spanien / Frankreich)

Konflikt Und Vermittlung: Die Okonomie Des Romans in...

Author: Urs Urban
ISBN: 9783770568185
Format: Paperback
$137.28

The book asks for the conditions in narrative literature around 1500 which allowed for the emergence of the figure...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

Author: Brenda Ayres ,  Sarah E. Maier
ISBN: 9783031321597
Format: Hardback
$569.22

This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations...  Read More >>

Hagiographies, 9: L'Hagiographie Latine a Rome Et En Italie Du Sud Entre 550 Et 750

Hagiographies, 9: L'Hagiographie Latine a Rome Et En...

Author: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503600284
Format: Hardback
$1272.48

Dans l'Italie des VIe-VIIIe siecles, dechiree entre Lombards et Byzantins, l'hagiographie fut la forme litteraire...  Read More >>

Horace: A Very Short Introduction

Horace: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Llewelyn Morgan ,  Michael Langan
ISBN: 9798874687755
Format: Audio
$84.45

Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication...  Read More >>

Horace: A Very Short Introduction

Horace: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Llewelyn Morgan ,  Michael Langan
ISBN: 9798874687762
Format: Audio
$110.85

Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication...  Read More >>

Dante in Der Romanischen Welt

Dante in Der Romanischen Welt

Author: Thomas Klinkert ,  Patricia Oster-Stierle
ISBN: 9783770567843
Format: Hardback
$322.08

The book explores the presence of Dante in the Romance world by studying modern mythology, the archicture of the...  Read More >>

The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary

The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary

Author: Hana Videen
ISBN: 9780691260006
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Welcome to the delightful and fascinating world of Old English animals  Read More >>

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