Literary studies: general books

315627 books were found.

Machiavelli on War

Machiavelli on War

Author: Christopher Lynch
ISBN: 9781501773020
Format: Hardback
$131.87

""An interpretation of war and foreign affairs in Machiavelli's writings""--  Read More >>

Women and Music in the Age of Austen

Women and Music in the Age of Austen

Author: Linda Zionkowski ,  Miriam F. Hart
ISBN: 9781684485161
Format: Hardback
$430.32

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition,...  Read More >>

Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States

Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary...

Author: Melody Yunzi Li
ISBN: 9781978829343
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

Author: Bob Blaisdell
ISBN: 9781496847690
Format: Hardback
$185.90

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The Age of Courtly Writing: Wen xuan Compiler Xiao Tong (501-531) and His Circle

The Age of Courtly Writing: Wen xuan Compiler Xiao Tong...

Author: Ping WANG
ISBN: 9789004225220
Format: Hardback
$464.64

This book, through detailed analysis of the writings of the Liang Crown Prince Xiao Tong and his circle, will deepen...  Read More >>

The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century

The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy...

Author: Patrick R. O'Malley
ISBN: 9780813950563
Format: Paperback
$91.08

Analyses the role of Irishness in nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

Author: Victoria Bladen (University of Queensland) ,  Sarah Hatchuel (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier)
ISBN: 9781009200950
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Providing up-to-date coverage of screen versions of Romeo and Juliet, this book encompasses a broad range of media...  Read More >>

Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back

Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres:...

Author: Marchella Ward (The Open University, Milton Keynes)
ISBN: 9781009372770
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Debunks stereotypes about blindness, in which readers, receivers and spectators from antiquity to the present have...  Read More >>

Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century

Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth...

Author: Thomas Matthew Vozar (Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow, Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hamburg)
ISBN: 9780198875949
Format: Hardback
$178.95

In this wide-ranging study in classical reception and the history of ideas, Thomas Matthew Vozar shows how Milton's...  Read More >>

Chekhov’s Sakhalin Journey: Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer

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

Author: Jonathan Cole (Bournemouth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350367500
Format: Hardback
$130.00

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

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction: Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction: Race,...

Author: Prof Nicole Simek (Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies, Whitman College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501377655
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century...  Read More >>

The """German Illusion""": Germany and Jewish-German Motifs in Hélène Cixous’s Late Work

The """German Illusion""": Germany and Jewish-German...

Author: Professor or Dr. Olivier Morel ,  Prof Imke Meyer
ISBN: 9798765107379
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""Examines Jewish-German ""tropes"" in H�el�ene Cixous's oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist,...  Read More >>

Faulkner’s Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing

Faulkner’s Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing...

Author: Professor Christopher Rieger
ISBN: 9798765103944
Format: Hardback
$150.00

"""The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkner's novels and short stories""--"  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of the American Essay

The Cambridge History of the American Essay

Author: Christy Wampole (Princeton University, New Jersey) ,  Jason Childs
ISBN: 9781316512708
Format: Hardback
$310.50

The Cambridge History of the American Essay tells the rich history of a literary genre that has been essential to...  Read More >>

Spanish Reception of Russian Narratives: 19051939. Transcultural Dialogues

Spanish Reception of Russian Narratives: 19051939. Transcultural...

Author: Lynn C. Purkey ,  Kirill Borisov
ISBN: 9798887194493
Format: Hardback
$54.99

ENG Drawing upon theories on the novel in Bakhtin's Dialogic Imagination, this book examines Nuevo Romanticismo...  Read More >>

Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing

Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing

Author: Dr. Tasha Haines (Independent Scholar, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781501394508
Format: Hardback
$150.00

""From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' - a new way of reading texts full...  Read More >>

The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'

The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's...

Author: Brian Gastle ,  Catherine Carter
ISBN: 9781580446785
Format: Paperback
$126.59

John Gower's Confessio Amantis (The Lover's Confession) is one of the most important English works of the C14th....  Read More >>

Bhakti Beyond the Forest: Current Research on Early Modern Religious Literatures in North India 2003-2009

Bhakti Beyond the Forest: Current Research on Early...

Author: Bangha Bangha
ISBN: 9788173049828
Format: Hardback
$92.50

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Fragmenta Comica 25.2 Diphilos Frr. 59-85

Fragmenta Comica 25.2 Diphilos Frr. 59-85

Author: Ioanna Karamanou
ISBN: 9783911065009
Format: Hardback
$274.56

This volume forms the second part of the three-volume commentary on the fragments of Diphilus, who belongs to the...  Read More >>

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