Literary studies: general books

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The Homeric Hymn to Hermes

The Homeric Hymn to Hermes

Author: Oliver Thomas (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781009353601
Format: Paperback
$129.35

An essential point of reference for advanced students and researchers interested in ancient Greek poetry or religion....  Read More >>

Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family

Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and...

Author: Kristin Mahoney (Michigan State University)
ISBN: 9781009011501
Format: Paperback
$49.14

This book draws on archival materials, such as diaries, correspondence, and photo albums, to tell the stories of...  Read More >>

The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm

The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm...

Author: Shushma Malik (Roehampton University, London)
ISBN: 9781108798358
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Refutes the commonly-held perception that Nero should be understood as the Antichrist figure in the Bible, and argues...  Read More >>

Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry

Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception...

Author: Nora Goldschmidt (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781316632086
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin...  Read More >>

Venantius Fortunatus: Vita Sancti MartiniPrologue and Books I–II

Venantius Fortunatus: Vita Sancti MartiniPrologue and...

Author: N. M. Kay
ISBN: 9781108444293
Format: Paperback
$129.35

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Hermann Kurz (1813-1873): Das Blaue Genie

Hermann Kurz (1813-1873): Das Blaue Genie

Author: Stefan Knodler
ISBN: 9783825366711
Format: Hardback
$129.36

"Sei mir Dichter, willkommen! denn dir hat wahrlich die Muse / Heiter Lippen und Stirn und beide glanzenden Augen...  Read More >>

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects...

Author: Daphne Lamothe
ISBN: 9781469675312
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Developing the idea of ‘Black aesthetic time’ - a multipronged theoretical concept that analyses the ways race and...  Read More >>

On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature

On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary...

Author: Morgane Cadieu
ISBN: 9780226830360
Format: Paperback
$49.95

An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move...  Read More >>

V. S. Naipaul and World Literature

V. S. Naipaul and World Literature

Author: Vijay Mishra (Murdoch University, Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781009433860
Format: Hardback
$219.94

V. S. Naipaul is a major and controversial figure in postcolonial and world literature. This book provides a challenging...  Read More >>

Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing the Big Picture

Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain:...

Author: Helen Kingstone
ISBN: 9783031156861
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with the newly industrialized and urbanized modern...  Read More >>

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects...

Author: Daphne Lamothe
ISBN: 9781469675305
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Developing the idea of ‘Black aesthetic time’ - a multipronged theoretical concept that analyses the ways race and...  Read More >>

Suryavamshi: The Sun Kings of Rajasthan

Suryavamshi: The Sun Kings of Rajasthan

Author: Abanindranath Tagore ,  Sandipan Deb
ISBN: 9789353456436
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Epic in their sweep, universal in their essence, the stories are timeless. Suryavamshi is a translation and adaptation...  Read More >>

On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature

On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary...

Author: Morgane Cadieu
ISBN: 9780226827124
Format: Hardback
$163.95

An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move...  Read More >>

Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement

Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical...

Author: Kate Parker ,  Miriam L. Wallace
ISBN: 9781684485031
Format: Paperback
$100.19

In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of ‘the long eighteenth century’, a Euro-centric timeframe from about...  Read More >>

White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages

White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages

Author: Wan-Chuan Kao (Assistant Professor of English)
ISBN: 9781526145802
Format: Hardback
$125.99

This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across...  Read More >>

The Fractured Voice: Silence and Power in Imperial Roman Literature

The Fractured Voice: Silence and Power in Imperial Roman...

Author: Amy A. Koenig
ISBN: 9780299345303
Format: Hardback
$263.87

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La Chanson de Roland

La Chanson de Roland

Author: Louis Vitet
ISBN: 9783988816399
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Le 13 octobre 1066, au moment où les armées d'Harold et de Guillaume allaient en venir aux mains dans les plaines...  Read More >>

Pindare et l'art grec

Pindare et l'art grec

Author: Louis Vitet
ISBN: 9783988816412
Format: Paperback
$34.29

... Au bout de quelques séances, tout Pindare n'était pas traduit, mais il était comme ébauché dans ses parties...  Read More >>

Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World

Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern...

Author: Teresa Bernheimer ,  Ronny Vollandt
ISBN: 9781800649163
Format: Hardback
$163.55

Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial....  Read More >>

Neues von der Insel: Englische Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit in deutscher Übersetzung

Neues von der Insel: Englische Literatur und Kultur...

Author: Jörg Wesche ,  Silvia Serena Tschopp
ISBN: 9783662669488
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Ein interdisziplinärer Band im Open-Access: Die Aufwertung der Volkssprachen in der Frühen Neuzeit führte zu einer...  Read More >>

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