Literary studies: general books

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Speaking Truth to Power: The Legacy of the Young Cid

Speaking Truth to Power: The Legacy of the Young Cid...

Author: Matthew Bailey
ISBN: 9781487506872
Format: Hardback
$115.00

This book traces the evolution of an oral narrative tradition that inspired the Spanish epic poem Mocedades de Rodrigo....  Read More >>

Punishing Transgression in Honor Culture and Face Culture

Punishing Transgression in Honor Culture and Face Culture...

Author: Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich ,  Mine Krause
ISBN: 9783631836682
Format: Hardback
$129.38

In the world’s honor and face cultures, values related to a family’s reputation are deep-rooted. When individuals...  Read More >>

Hand to Mouth

Hand to Mouth

Author: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9780571389506
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Spatial Literary Studies in China

Spatial Literary Studies in China

Author: Ying Fang ,  Robert T. Tally Jr.
ISBN: 9783031039164
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing...  Read More >>

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian...

Author: Shirley Zisser
ISBN: 9781032490625
Format: Hardback
$94.99

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena...  Read More >>

Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/Practice/Politics

Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/Practice/Politics...

Author: Paulette M. Rothbauer ,  Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad
ISBN: 9781771121736
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Explores the experience of reading-what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under...  Read More >>

Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire

Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire

Author: Matthew Leporati (College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York City)
ISBN: 9781009285186
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Matthew Leporati examines the explosive Romantic revival of epic alongside the contemporary revival of missionary...  Read More >>

Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues

Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues

Author: Susan Irvine (Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London)
ISBN: 9780199692101
Format: Hardback
$307.00

This new edition with facing-page modern English translation collects together the Old English prologues and epilogues...  Read More >>

God's Own Mouthpieces: Prophecy and Reason in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

God's Own Mouthpieces: Prophecy and Reason in Judaism,...

Author: Heiko Schulz
ISBN: 9783161628290
Format: Paperback
$327.36

The thematical focus of this two-part volume, resulting from an international, interdisciplinary and interreligious...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi: A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis

The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi: A Philosophy for the...

Author: Alice Gibson (Kingston University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350298644
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of pioneering poet-philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, Alice Gibson...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature...

Author: Cosima Bruno ,  Lucas Klein
ISBN: 9781350215306
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies...  Read More >>

The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition: From the Sixth to the Sixteenth Centuries

The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition: From...

Author: Yaniv Fox (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
ISBN: 9781009285018
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe, and their...  Read More >>

Faulkner's Cartographies of Consciousness

Faulkner's Cartographies of Consciousness

Author: John Michael Corrigan (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
ISBN: 9781009377850
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Combining literary critique with network and complexity science, this book offers a new reading of William Faulkner...  Read More >>

Fábula del Poder: Corporalidad, Biopolítica y Violencia en la Narrativa de Sergio Ramírez

Fábula del Poder: Corporalidad, Biopolítica y Violencia...

Author: Daniel Chávez Landeros
ISBN: 9781612499062
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Despite the gravity and violence present in many of Sergio Ramirez Mercado’s short stories and novels, his writing...  Read More >>

Il Filellenismo Nella Cultura Italiana Dell'ottocento

Il Filellenismo Nella Cultura Italiana Dell'ottocento...

Author: Andrea Scardicchio
ISBN: 9782875746290
Format: Paperback
$85.39

Il volume si propone di aggiornare la mappa della produzione letteraria ottocentesca di argomento filellenico, analizzando...  Read More >>

Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France

Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary...

Author: Alistaire Tallent
ISBN: 9781644533239
Format: Paperback
$121.31

This book identifies the prostitute memoir as a subgenre of the eighteenth-century French libertine novel and explores...  Read More >>

Representations of Marginalized Populations in French WWI Literature: Muted Voices

Representations of Marginalized Populations in French...

Author: Kathy Comfort
ISBN: 9781666916362
Format: Hardback
$175.00

""Comfort's reading of select French literary works about the Great War enhances our understanding of the way that...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Byron: Second Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Byron: Second Edition

Author: Drummond Bone (Balliol College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108844888
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Deeply informed and appealingly written, this revised and updated second edition gives fresh life to the enthralling...  Read More >>

The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing

The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning...

Author: Serena Laiena
ISBN: 9781644533154
Format: Paperback
$139.79

Who were the first celebrity couples? How was their success forged? Which forces influenced their self-fashioning...  Read More >>

American Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture

American Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture...

Author: Paula Barba Guerrero ,  Mónica Fernández Jiménez
ISBN: 9783031301780
Format: Hardback
$310.47

American Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture provides an overview of American culture produced in a range...  Read More >>

Madness and Subversion in Saul Bellow’s Later Novels: A Deconstructive Perspective

Madness and Subversion in Saul Bellow’s Later Novels:...

Author: Ramzi Marrouchi
ISBN: 9781636671499
Format: Hardback
$250.67

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Impresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo México by Manuel Sariñana: A Bilingual Edition of the Original 1908 Picaresque Novella

Impresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo México by Manuel...

Author: Phillip B. Gonzales
ISBN: 9780826365606
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Represents a remarkable literary recovery. For the first time, the novella is presented in its original Spanish...  Read More >>

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