Literary studies: general books

315627 books were found.

Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation: From Page to Screen to Stage

Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation:...

Author: Loukia Kostopoulou ,  Vasiliki Misiou
ISBN: 9781032328713
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The volume offers an in-depth exploration of the entanglements of film, theatre, literature, TV, the Internet, etc.,...  Read More >>

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

Author: Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781009013703
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory: Vice, Virtue, and Spoilt Children

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory: Vice, Virtue, and...

Author: Julian Real
ISBN: 9781032585512
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory posits that we have today forgotten a cultural icon that helped to bring about...  Read More >>

Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th Centuries

Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th...

Author: Baukje van den Berg ,  Divna Manolova (University of York)
ISBN: 9781009088053
Format: Paperback
$72.42

The first volume to explore the rich tradition of commentaries on ancient texts produced and circulating in Byzantium...  Read More >>

The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo

The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and...

Author: M. W. Shores (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781108926676
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Rakugo (comic storytelling) has played a major role in Japanese culture and society, and yet has been largely overlooked...  Read More >>

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Author: Jason König (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Nicolas Wiater (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781009015950
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and...  Read More >>

Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context

Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition,...

Author: Berenice Verhelst (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ,  Tine Scheijnen (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781009013673
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Adopts and promotes a bilingual focus on the Greek and Latin poetry of late antiquity. Sheds light on the literary...  Read More >>

Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands

Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands...

Author: Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak ,  Dominika Ferens
ISBN: 9781032617718
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This collection explores the diverse relationships between the concept of hinterlands and its manifestations in...  Read More >>

Rhetorique de la Requete ((Xvie-Xviie Siecles)

Rhetorique de la Requete ((Xvie-Xviie Siecles)

Author: Ellen Delvallee ,  Cecile Lignereux
ISBN: 9782406158431
Format: Hardback
$240.24

The book studies how the rhetorical protocols of the request, defined and illustrated by rhetorical treatises and...  Read More >>

E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters

E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters

Author: Nour Dakkak
ISBN: 9781032294469
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Through attending to the nonhuman, this book places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates...  Read More >>

Letters from India: The Correspondence of Lady Susan Ramsay, 1854–1856

Letters from India: The Correspondence of Lady Susan...

Author: Ross Nelson
ISBN: 9781032390413
Format: Hardback
$242.00

This fascinating volume reproduces the letters and journal of Lady Susan Ramsay (1837-1898), the elder daughter...  Read More >>

Trajectoires Textuelles de l'Hercule Medieval: Mythographie, Historiographie Et Au-Dela

Trajectoires Textuelles de l'Hercule Medieval: Mythographie,...

Author: Laura Endress
ISBN: 9782406154631
Format: Hardback
$266.64

This book studies the evolution of the Hercules myth through its textual transmission from Antiquity through the...  Read More >>

Spectres de Dostoievski

Spectres de Dostoievski

Author: Nicolas Aude ,  Karen Haddad
ISBN: 9782406158134
Format: Hardback
$240.24

From the specters in his books to the traces he left in world literature, this work looks at Dostoevsky's ghostly...  Read More >>

The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry

The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in...

Author: Enaiê Mairê Azambuja
ISBN: 9781032415710
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry

Author: Huda Fakhreddine ,  Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
ISBN: 9780367562359
Format: Hardback
$462.00

Comprised of leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural,...  Read More >>

Sat. 124.2-141, Anhänge Und Register

Sat. 124.2-141, Anhänge Und Register

Author: Peter Habermehl
ISBN: 9783110582796
Format: Hardback
$345.81

The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially...  Read More >>

Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi

Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the...

Author: Amy H. Sueyoshi
ISBN: 9780824897888
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Through the romantic life of Yone Noguchi, Queer Compulsions narrates how even the queerest of intimacies can more...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

Author: Alison James ,  Akihiro Kubo
ISBN: 9780367635152
Format: Hardback
$462.00

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and...  Read More >>

Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Muse of Romantic Music

Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Muse of Romantic Music...

Author: Nicole J. Camastra
ISBN: 9781476690162
Format: Paperback
$127.60

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Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order,...

Author: Ian Tan
ISBN: 9781032487021
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence...  Read More >>

Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900

Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading...

Author: Niall Ó Ciosáin (National University of Ireland, Galway)
ISBN: 9780367313456
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is a study of the print cultures of the four principal Celtic languages — Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe

Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe

Author: Andrew Hiscock (Bangor University)
ISBN: 9781108821995
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Providing close readings of Shakespeare's history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan politics and...  Read More >>

A History of Sanskrit Literature

A History of Sanskrit Literature

Author: Arthur keith Berriedale
ISBN: 9789360804541
Format: Hardback
$126.76

Beneficial for students and scholars interested in Sanskrit literature and grammar.  Read More >>

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