Literary studies: general books

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Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective

Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective

Author: Jeffrey Berman
ISBN: 9781438495682
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Assesses the contributions of six major psychoanalytic thinkers in the light of current academic and clinical trends...  Read More >>

Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and Literature

Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and...

Author: Allard den Dulk ,  Pia Masiero
ISBN: 9781526172327
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This collection aims to show that David Foster Wallace's work originates from and functions in the space between...  Read More >>

Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939

Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity...

Author: Aimee Armande Wilson
ISBN: 9781438495590
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship...  Read More >>

Spectral Dickens: The Uncanny Forms of Novelistic Characterization

Spectral Dickens: The Uncanny Forms of Novelistic Characterization...

Author: Alexander Bove, III
ISBN: 9781526174543
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character. By analyzing Dickens' illustrated novels through...  Read More >>

David Peace

David Peace

Author: Katy Shaw
ISBN: 9781802078510
Format: Hardback
$85.39

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The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature

The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature...

Author: Kathy Cawsey ,  Elizabeth Edwards
ISBN: 9781554815975
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Offers an up-to-date and student-friendly approach to teaching the literature of the Arthurian tradition. With a...  Read More >>

Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy

Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration,...

Author: Glenda R. Carpio
ISBN: 9780231207577
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Glenda R. Carpio argues that we need a new paradigm for migrant fiction. She shows how contemporary authors expose...  Read More >>

The Illusion of the Burgundian State

The Illusion of the Burgundian State

Author: Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin ,  Christopher Fletcher
ISBN: 9781526174550
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering...  Read More >>

Archival Afterlives: Cixous, Derrida, and the Matter of Friendship

Archival Afterlives: Cixous, Derrida, and the Matter...

Author: Laura Hughes
ISBN: 9780810146273
Format: Paperback
$95.04

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Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): A Seventeenth-Century English Poet Recovered

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): A Seventeenth-Century English...

Author: Michael Edson ,  Cedric D. Reverand, II
ISBN: 9781638040729
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Featuring nine chapters by a group of internationally renowned scholars, this book recovers Cowley’s unique achievement...  Read More >>

Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early Modern Feminism: ReSisters

Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early...

Author: Barbara Abrams
ISBN: 9780367029173
Format: Hardback
$105.00

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Diversity in Cognition

Diversity in Cognition

Author: Barbara Mertins ,  Barbara Mertins
ISBN: 9783631903445
Format: Paperback
$139.73

The book shows that diversity in cognition plays a key role in linguistics encoding, event conceptualization, reception...  Read More >>

Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers

Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana...

Author: Norma Elia Cantú ,  Raquel Valle-Sentíes
ISBN: 9780816551811
Format: Paperback
$98.20

This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights

Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights

Author: Paulo Lemos Horta
ISBN: 9781603295970
Format: Paperback
$61.60

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Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics

Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics...

Author: Lisa Wenger Bro
ISBN: 9781476679365
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Covering science fiction from the early 1900s to present, this book examines the portrayal of dystopian capitalism...  Read More >>

Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor

Author: Benjamin Fraser
ISBN: 9781496848512
Format: Paperback
$34.10

Rooted in close analyses of the artist’s numerous series and collections, each chapter in Ben Katchor is dedicated...  Read More >>

Eros and Thanatos. Love across Civilizations

Eros and Thanatos. Love across Civilizations

Author: Alberto Castelli
ISBN: 9781648898044
Format: Hardback
$216.48

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Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe

Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Robert Morgan
ISBN: 9780807180457
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Over 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers,...  Read More >>

The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen

The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and...

Author: Michael Squires
ISBN: 9780807180464
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Provides a candid look at two illustrious people who tested the capacity - and the limits - of marriage. The Lawrences...  Read More >>

Dostoevsky's Provocateurs

Dostoevsky's Provocateurs

Author: Lynn Ellen Patyk
ISBN: 9780810145733
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Like so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient...  Read More >>

Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England

Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon...

Author: María José Álvarez-Faedo ,  Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez
ISBN: 9783034345040
Format: Paperback
$72.45

This book provides a parallel reading of the ExeterBook riddles and theWondersof the East in order to identify the...  Read More >>

Human Insufficiency: Natural Slavery and the Racialization of Vulnerability in Early Modern England

Human Insufficiency: Natural Slavery and the Racialization...

Author: Jeffrey B. Griswold
ISBN: 9781032422695
Format: Hardback
$284.00

By depicting the human political subject as exceptionally vulnerable, literary and philosophical writers portrayed...  Read More >>

Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat: Volume 2 of TERRORTOME the SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat: Volume 2 of TERRORTOME...

Author: Garth Marenghi
ISBN: 9781399721882
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Garth Marenghi - Frightenerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage - is back with volume two of his TerrorTome . . .  Read More >>

Caroline Bergvall’s Medievalist Poetics: Migratory Texts and Transhistorical Methods

Caroline Bergvall’s Medievalist Poetics: Migratory Texts...

Author: Joshua Davies (Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature in the Department of English, King’s College London) ,  Caroline Bergvall (Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary University London)
ISBN: 9781802700015
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Interrogates the complexities and possibilities of the historical, linguistic, textual, material and cultural legacies...  Read More >>

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