Literary studies: general books

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La Pucelle d'Orleans Restituee Par Beroalde de Verville: Sous Le Sujet de Cette Magnanime Pucelle Est Representee Une Fille Vaillante, Chaste, Scavante Et Belle

La Pucelle d'Orleans Restituee Par Beroalde de Verville:...

Author: Beroalde De Verville ,  Corinne F Wilson
ISBN: 9782812452413
Format: Hardback
$298.32

In 1599, Beroalde de Verville published the first romance entirely devoted to Joan of Arc. Mixing historical references,...  Read More >>

La Bibliotheque de Pontus de Tyard: Libri Qui Quidem Extant

La Bibliotheque de Pontus de Tyard: Libri Qui Quidem...

Author: Francois Roudaut
ISBN: 9782812454417
Format: Hardback
$443.52

Poet, theologian, and scholar, Bishop Pontus de Tyard owned one of the finest libraries of his time. The books that...  Read More >>

La Reflexion de la Lune Sur Les Hommes: 1654

La Reflexion de la Lune Sur Les Hommes: 1654

Author: Madame de Bregy ,  Constant Venesoen
ISBN: 9782812452352
Format: Hardback
$232.32

While in this text the Countess of Bregy decries the defects of men, women do not make it out unscathed. A forerunner...  Read More >>

Scotland's Royal Women and European Literary Culture, 1424-1587

Scotland's Royal Women and European Literary Culture,...

Author: Emily Wingfield
ISBN: 9782503600291
Format: Hardback
$364.32

Scotland's Royal Women and European Literary Culture, 1424-1587 seeks to fill a significant gap in the rich and...  Read More >>

Romantic Futures: Legacy, Prophecy, Temporality

Romantic Futures: Legacy, Prophecy, Temporality

Author: Evy Varsamopoulou
ISBN: 9781032334660
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature: Relational Worlds

Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature:...

Author: Joseph Hankinson
ISBN: 9783031187780
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist...  Read More >>

Salman Rushdie and Postcolonial Authorship: The Ethics of Intellectual Practice

Salman Rushdie and Postcolonial Authorship: The Ethics...

Author: Trajanka Kortova Jovanovska
ISBN: 9781804412824
Format: Hardback
$314.03

The main focus of interest in this book are the figures of writers and writing subjects in Rushdie’s oeuvre who...  Read More >>

Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives

Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives

Author: Anelise Haukaas
ISBN: 9783031444814
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives considers the relationship between disability identity and simulation...  Read More >>

Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders: Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities Around the World

Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders:...

Author: Elio Baldi ,  Cecilia Schwartz
ISBN: 9781032277653
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Chekhov’s Sakhalin Journey: Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer

Chekhov’s Sakhalin Journey: Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer...

Author: Jonathan Cole (Bournemouth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350367517
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Chekhov often said that ‘I am a doctor by trade and sometimes I do literary work in my free time’, a surprising...  Read More >>

Dante's ""Vita Nova"": A Collaborative Reading

Dante's ""Vita Nova"": A Collaborative Reading

Author: Zygmunt G. Baranski ,  Heather Webb
ISBN: 9780268207397
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts

Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual...

Author: Amrita Ghosh
ISBN: 9781793627964
Format: Hardback
$175.00

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Strange Instances of Time and Space in the Odyssey

Strange Instances of Time and Space in the Odyssey

Author: Menelaos Christopoulos
ISBN: 9781666920390
Format: Hardback
$156.00

Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions...  Read More >>

The Urban Planetary and Tokyo Modernity: Dwelling in Passing

The Urban Planetary and Tokyo Modernity: Dwelling in...

Author: Christophe Thouny
ISBN: 9781666929300
Format: Hardback
$193.00

This book revisits Japanese modern literature in relation to Kon Wajirō’s urban ethnography and draws a speculative...  Read More >>

Displacing Fictions of Orhan Pamuk: Beyond the Bridge

Displacing Fictions of Orhan Pamuk: Beyond the Bridge...

Author: Hande Gürses
ISBN: 9781793625762
Format: Hardback
$175.00

This book argues for a rethinking of the role of world literature through new readings of Orhan Pamuk. Drawing on...  Read More >>

Post Green: Literature, Culture, and the Environment

Post Green: Literature, Culture, and the Environment...

Author: Murali Sivaramakrishnan ,  Animesh Roy
ISBN: 9781666947908
Format: Hardback
$184.00

This book proposes a paradigm shift in contemporary ecocritical scholarship, from radical green politics to post-green....  Read More >>

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and...

Author: Peter J. Capuano
ISBN: 9781501772856
Format: Hardback
$343.20

""Using hybrid digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, this book shows how Charles Dickens...  Read More >>

The Retrospective Muse: Pathways through Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

The Retrospective Muse: Pathways through Ancient Greek...

Author: Froma I. Zeitlin ,  Simon Goldhill
ISBN: 9781501772962
Format: Hardback
$150.35

""A collection of the author's previously published essays, inquiries into gender, cult, the city, erotics, and...  Read More >>

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