Literary studies: general books

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Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler

Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler...

Author: Paul J Bauer ,  Mark Dawidziak
ISBN: 9781948986489
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Jim Tully describes the hardscrabble life of an Irish American storyteller, from his immigrant roots, rural childhood,...  Read More >>

Beat Myths in Literature: Revisionist Strategies in Beat Women

Beat Myths in Literature: Revisionist Strategies in...

Author: Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo
ISBN: 9781032121314
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat generation from the critical...  Read More >>

Tajikistan’s National Epics: Muqanna's Rebellion and The Tajik People's Hero Temur Malik

Tajikistan’s National Epics: Muqanna's Rebellion and...

Author: Sadriddin Ayni ,  Jonathan Zartman
ISBN: 9781032486086
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Sadriddin Ayni (1878-1954) was a Tajik intellectual, regarded by many as one of the most important writers in the...  Read More >>

Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond

Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation...

Author: Parichay Patra ,  Amitendu Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9781032231693
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Taking the absence of discussion on transnationalism in South Asia as a crucial juncture as well as a point of intervention,...  Read More >>

Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination: Reinventing the Word

Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary...

Author: Gregory Erickson (The Gallatin School, USA) ,  Emma Mason (University of Warwick UK)
ISBN: 9781350212794
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Organized by heretical movements and texts from the Gnostic Gospels to The Book of Mormon, this book uses the work...  Read More >>

Creative Writing and Stylistics, Revised and Expanded Edition: Critical and Creative Approaches

Creative Writing and Stylistics, Revised and Expanded...

Author: Jeremy Scott (University of Kent, UK) ,  Graeme Harper (Oakland University USA)
ISBN: 9781350372955
Format: Paperback
$49.99

In this innovative fusion of practice and criticism, Jeremy Scott shows how insights from stylistics and linguistics...  Read More >>

Cicero's Cilician Letters

Cicero's Cilician Letters

Author: Susan Treggiari (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009383172
Format: Paperback
$33.61

One of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and...  Read More >>

Robert Southey Lives of Labouring-Class Poets

Robert Southey Lives of Labouring-Class Poets

Author: Tim Fulford
ISBN: 9781032450872
Format: Hardback
$242.00

The Lives of Uneducated Poets, written by Robert Southey and published in 1831, contributes to the current interest...  Read More >>

Translation Studies and China: Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts

Translation Studies and China: Literature, Cinema, and...

Author: Haiping Yan ,  Haina Jin
ISBN: 9781032563978
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Focusing on transculturality, this edited volume explores how the role of translation and the idea of (un)translatability...  Read More >>

Orwell's Island: George, Jura and 1984

Orwell's Island: George, Jura and 1984

Author: Les Wilson
ISBN: 9781913393779
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature...

Author: Danielle E. Price
ISBN: 9781032038360
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question—Who...  Read More >>

Desire and the Ascetic Ideal: Buddhism and Hinduism in the Works of T. S. Eliot

Desire and the Ascetic Ideal: Buddhism and Hinduism...

Author: Edward Upton
ISBN: 9780813949994
Format: Paperback
$91.08

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Oeuvres Completes. Tome IV: Oeuvres Philosophiques: Harmonies de la Nature Et Textes Peripheriques

Oeuvres Completes. Tome IV: Oeuvres Philosophiques:...

Author: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre ,  Simon Davies
ISBN: 9782406148746
Format: Paperback
$208.56

This volume presents an unabridged edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Harmonies de la Nature, a text published...  Read More >>

Intertextuality in Pliny's Epistles

Intertextuality in Pliny's Epistles

Author: Margot Neger (University of Cyprus) ,  Spyridon Tzounakas (University of Cyprus)
ISBN: 9781009294768
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Essential reading for anyone interested in the artistry of Pliny's Epistles and, more broadly, in Latin prose intertextuality,...  Read More >>

La Comedie Elegiaque: Un Essai de Typologie Des Sources Medievales

La Comedie Elegiaque: Un Essai de Typologie Des Sources...

Author: Klementyna Aura Glinska
ISBN: 9782406150169
Format: Paperback
$179.52

This essay attempts to deconstruct the corpus of so-called elegiac comedies. The criticism of the presuppositions...  Read More >>

Proust Au Present: Etude Des Deictiques Dans a la Recherche Du Temps Perdu

Proust Au Present: Etude Des Deictiques Dans a la Recherche...

Author: Anna Isabella Squarzina
ISBN: 9782406155782
Format: Paperback
$97.68

It may seem rather unusual to devote a whole study to the adverb maintenant and to the analysis of deixis in the...  Read More >>

Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience

Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience...

Author: Dr Emma Bridges (The Open University)
ISBN: 9780198843528
Format: Hardback
$58.95

Warriors' Wives compares the experiences of women in classical literature and mythology to the emotional, psychological,...  Read More >>

Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan

Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: In the Footsteps...

Author: Jonathan Shepard (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Luke Treadwell (Oxford University, UK)
ISBN: 9781784539337
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The year 922 saw a series of remarkable face-to-face encounters in the steppes between Bukhara and the Middle Volga....  Read More >>

Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England: Social Discomfort in the Literature of the Middle Ages

Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England: Social...

Author: David Watt
ISBN: 9781788314305
Format: Hardback
$170.00

'We live,’ according to Adam Kotsko, ‘in an awkward age.’ While this condition may present some challenges, it may...  Read More >>

Creative Writing and Stylistics, Revised and Expanded Edition: Critical and Creative Approaches

Creative Writing and Stylistics, Revised and Expanded...

Author: Jeremy Scott (University of Kent, UK) ,  Graeme Harper (Oakland University USA)
ISBN: 9781350372962
Format: Hardback
$150.00

In this innovative fusion of practice and criticism, Jeremy Scott shows how insights from stylistics and linguistics...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

Author: Victoria N. Morgan
ISBN: 9781350380110
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the...  Read More >>

The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought

The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry...

Author: Philip Smallwood (Birmingham City University)
ISBN: 9781009369985
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing...  Read More >>

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