Literary studies: general books

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Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth

Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth

Author: Robin Headlam Wells
ISBN: 9781032635293
Format: Hardback
$183.00

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The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams

The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond...

Author: Lesley Johnson
ISBN: 9781032645353
Format: Hardback
$152.00

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary...  Read More >>

The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism

The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism...

Author: Allon White
ISBN: 9781032645933
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature...  Read More >>

Polygyny and Gender: The Gendered Narratives of Adults Raised in Polygynous Families

Polygyny and Gender: The Gendered Narratives of Adults...

Author: Zamambo V. Mkhize
ISBN: 9781032633930
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Applied Shakespeare: A Transformative Encounter?

Applied Shakespeare: A Transformative Encounter?

Author: Adelle Hulsmeier
ISBN: 9783031454134
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book speaks to those interested in where and why Shakespeare’s work is used to capture the transformative intentions...  Read More >>

Fiction & the Colonial Experience

Fiction & the Colonial Experience

Author: Jeffrey Meyers
ISBN: 9781032190907
Format: Paperback
$60.99

British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the novelists of the first half of the 20th century. This...  Read More >>

Ars Prophetica: Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Israeli Poets: Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi

Ars Prophetica: Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century...

Author: Haim Rechnitzer
ISBN: 9780878202355
Format: Hardback
$105.47

"In Ars-Prophetica, Haim O. Rechnitzer uncovers and recovers the theological elements within the poetry of four...  Read More >>

God's Scrivener: The Madness and Meaning of Jones Very

God's Scrivener: The Madness and Meaning of Jones Very...

Author: Professor Clark Davis
ISBN: 9780226828688
Format: Hardback
$57.95

A biography of a long-forgotten but vital American Transcendentalist poet.   In September of 1838, a few months...  Read More >>

Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide

Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary...

Author: Julian Murphet
ISBN: 9781399513968
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster

Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought...

Author: Jonathan Boulter
ISBN: 9781474499620
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination

The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination...

Author: Michael Golston
ISBN: 9780817361006
Format: Paperback
$105.47

An insightful monograph that does exactly what it advertises: modelling poetics based on how poetry (and some parallel...  Read More >>

Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives: Relational Worlds in Contemporary Native American Literature

Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives: Relational...

Author: Anna M. Brígido-Corachán
ISBN: 9781611864694
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Writing from a vantage point that respects tribal specificities and Indigenous sovereignty, the essays in this volume...  Read More >>

Radical Elegies: White Violence, Patriarchy, and Necropoetics

Radical Elegies: White Violence, Patriarchy, and Necropoetics...

Author: Eleanor Perry ,  Daniel Katz (University of Warwick UK)
ISBN: 9781350236103
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Scholarship has traditionally characterized elegy as a Eurocentric tradition – a genealogy spanning from ancient...  Read More >>

Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae

Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae

Author: Dr Gesthimani Seferiadi (Independent Scholar, Greece)
ISBN: 9781350260351
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This is the first book-length examination of the notion of gendered politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae. Making use...  Read More >>

Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics

Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics

Author: Professor or Dr. Jens Elze (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781501385520
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Realism seems to be everywhere, both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume...  Read More >>

The Works of Graham Greene, Volume 3: Additions & Essays

The Works of Graham Greene, Volume 3: Additions & Essays...

Author: Mike Hill (Editor, A Sort of Newsletter, UK) ,  Dr Jon Wise (independent scholar)
ISBN: 9781350285774
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific and widely read writer. Completing a series of volumes which...  Read More >>

The Politics of Literary Prestige: Prizes and Spanish American Literature

The Politics of Literary Prestige: Prizes and Spanish...

Author: Dr Sarah E.L. Bowskill (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
ISBN: 9781501376030
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Analyses the relationship between literary prizes, politics and the reception of literature in Spanish America""--"...  Read More >>

Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

Author: Prof James Hodapp (Northwestern University, Qatar)
ISBN: 9781501373404
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Graphic narratives are one of the world’s great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United...  Read More >>

Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction: Ireland in Crisis

Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction:...

Author: Dr Eoin Flannery (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Limerick, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350302204
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Based on readings of some of the leading literary voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these...  Read More >>

The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption

The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture...

Author: Andrew Ball ,  Emma Mason (University of Warwick UK)
ISBN: 9781350231702
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Examining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides...  Read More >>

Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark...

Author: Zhiyi Yang
ISBN: 9780472056507
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest....  Read More >>

Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts

Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts...

Author: Jade Munslow Ong ,  Andrew Van der Vlies
ISBN: 9781399512534
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Examines Olive Schreiner's writing, networks and legacies in new global, historical and contemporary contexts  Read More >>

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