Literary studies: general books

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The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation

The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning...

Author: Prof Stephen Regan ,  Andrew Motion
ISBN: 9780241269602
Format: Hardback
$75.00

The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolation Elegy is among the world's...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Immediacy: Dangerous Experience in Freud, Woolf, and Merleau-Ponty

The Ethics of Immediacy: Dangerous Experience in Freud,...

Author: Dr. Jeffrey McCurry (Duquesne University, USA) ,  Professor Esther Rashkin (University of Utah, USA)
ISBN: 9798765107249
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""Argues that modernism can be seen as a therapeutic project for transforming human experience, and draws from Freudian...  Read More >>

Central American Literatures as World Literature

Central American Literatures as World Literature

Author: Professor or Dr. Sophie Esch (Rice University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501391873
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""A first-of-its-kind study on Central American literature that illuminates classics and highlights new pathways...  Read More >>

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through...

Author: Anthony Bale
ISBN: 9780241530849
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to the court of China...  Read More >>

Rudy Wiebe: Essays On His Works

Rudy Wiebe: Essays On His Works

Author: Bianca Lakoseljac
ISBN: 9781771838467
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The anthology, Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works, compiled and edited by Bianca Lakoseljac, examines Wiebe's works...  Read More >>

Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory

Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory...

Author: Atsuko Sakaki
ISBN: 9783031405471
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Literary Criticism: A Short History: Neo-Classical Criticism

Literary Criticism: A Short History: Neo-Classical Criticism...

Author: William K. Wimsatt, Jr. ,  Cleanth Brooks
ISBN: 9780367692186
Format: Paperback
$60.99

First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins...  Read More >>

In Praise of the Minor Character: The Importance of Peripheral Figures in Victorian Literature

In Praise of the Minor Character: The Importance of...

Author: Grace Pregent
ISBN: 9781476687278
Format: Paperback
$110.00

A work is about minor characters and the qualities of minorness in Victorian novels. It offers casual readers and...  Read More >>

The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature

The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature...

Author: Vered Tohar
ISBN: 9780814350829
Format: Paperback
$71.25

This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as...  Read More >>

Geopoetry: Geology, Materiality, Ecopoetics

Geopoetry: Geology, Materiality, Ecopoetics

Author: Dale Enggass
ISBN: 9780826365583
Format: Hardback
$171.60

At its core, geopoetics proposes that a connection between language and geology has become a significant development...  Read More >>

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the...

Author: Marlene L. Daut
ISBN: 9781469676845
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political...  Read More >>

Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830: Studying and Interpreting Sources

Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830:...

Author: Rindert Jagersma ,  Helwi Blom
ISBN: 9789004542952
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Serving as a guide to sources and resources, as well as to state-of the-art methods and interpretational approaches,...  Read More >>

The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New Concept

The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New...

Author: Ewan Jones
ISBN: 9780813950310
Format: Paperback
$77.88

Incredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used. It likewise had no cultural...  Read More >>

Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales

Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales

Author: G R Thompson ,  Robert Paul Lamb
ISBN: 9780984654345
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light

Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light...

Author: John F. Desmond
ISBN: 9781481319294
Format: Paperback
$68.20

In this thoughtful and carefully argued book, John Desmond uncovers Christian and transcendent elements in Seamus...  Read More >>

Using Fiction to Teach Secondary Students about the Middle East

Using Fiction to Teach Secondary Students about the...

Author: Karl Ågerup
ISBN: 9783031455261
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book draws on empirical studies of classrooms teaching The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra to demonstrate...  Read More >>

Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature

Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in...

Author: Artem Vorobiev
ISBN: 9783031111945
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and...  Read More >>

Goethes späte Lyrik: Band I: Krise und Selbstvergewisserung (1805–1813)

Goethes späte Lyrik: Band I: Krise und Selbstvergewisserung...

Author: Reiner Wild
ISBN: 9783476023421
Format: Hardback
$129.35

Band I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr...  Read More >>

Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China

Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams...

Author: Shouhua Qi
ISBN: 9783031169366
Format: Paperback
$258.72

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Emerging Perspectives on Tess Osonye Onwueme: Women, Youth, and Eco-literature

Emerging Perspectives on Tess Osonye Onwueme: Women,...

Author: Maureen Ngozi Eke
ISBN: 9781569026373
Format: Paperback
$103.37

A complete study of Tess Osonye Onwueme through essays and interviews.  Read More >>

Proust's Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation

Proust's Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation...

Author: Randolph Splitter
ISBN: 9781032624143
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Resources

Shakespeare's Resources

Author: John Drakakis
ISBN: 9781526174529
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A challenging re-appraisal of the ways in which we have conceived of 'source' study in relation to Shakespeare....  Read More >>

The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction

The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction

Author: Rob Breton
ISBN: 9781526174536
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Penny politics explores how and why Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s appealed to politicised,...  Read More >>

Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel

Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel

Author: Claus Elholm Andersen
ISBN: 9781438495668
Format: Hardback
$261.36

A probing, generative analysis of Knausgård’s My Struggle, with implications for our understanding of the novel...  Read More >>

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