Literary studies: general books

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To Instruct and to Entertain

To Instruct and to Entertain

Author: Sauer
ISBN: 9783825395520
Format: Paperback
$139.92

This volume brings together related examples of medieval didactic dialogues. Texts of this kind were designed both...  Read More >>

Gendered Identity and the Lost Female: Hybridity as a Partial Experience in the Anglophone Caribbean Performances

Gendered Identity and the Lost Female: Hybridity as...

Author: Shrabani Basu
ISBN: 9789811949692
Format: Paperback
$232.85

​This book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance...  Read More >>

Kleist-Jahrbuch 2023

Kleist-Jahrbuch 2023

Author: Anne Fleig ,  Barbara Gribnitz
ISBN: 9783662680599
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2023 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2022 im November 2022 mit den Reden der...  Read More >>

The Golden Woman: The Authorized Biography of Doris Lessing

The Golden Woman: The Authorized Biography of Doris...

Author: Patrick French
ISBN: 9780008175252
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women: Fictions, Histories, Myths

A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women: Fictions, Histories,...

Author: Leanne Bibby
ISBN: 9783031086731
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The book will be the first study of Byatt’s work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women...  Read More >>

Adapting Spanish Classics for the New Millennium: The Nineteenth-Century Novel Remediated

Adapting Spanish Classics for the New Millennium: The...

Author: Linda M. Willem
ISBN: 9783031048173
Format: Paperback
$232.85

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Pen, print and communication in the eighteenth century

Pen, print and communication in the eighteenth century...

Author: Caroline Archer-Parré (Faculty of Art, Design & Media, Birmingham City University (United Kingdom)) ,  Malcolm Dick (Arts Building, University of Birmingham (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781802078800
Format: Paperback
$77.60

In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to...  Read More >>

Pearl

Pearl

Author: Thorlac Turville-Petre (Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781802078947
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Pearl is celebrated as a jewel among medieval poems, although it is the most challenging of the four works by the...  Read More >>

Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality: The Transnational Lives of Renée Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney

Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality: The Transnational...

Author: Melanie C. Hawthorne
ISBN: 9781837644186
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A survey of the history of women's claims to their own citizenship in Europe and the US from the nineteenth century...  Read More >>

Decolonizing Literature: An Introduction

Decolonizing Literature: An Introduction

Author: Anna Bernard (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781509544639
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful....  Read More >>

Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond

Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond

Author: M. E. Gkikaki
ISBN: 9781800856134
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Thirteen essays explore how the study of tokens has advanced in recent decades, and what the potential is to advance...  Read More >>

Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje

Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays...

Author: Robert Lecker
ISBN: 9780228019039
Format: Paperback
$80.21

This new collection on Michael Ondaatje’s work – the first in twenty years – offers an innovative analysis of the...  Read More >>

Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776-1830

Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the...

Author: Keri Holt
ISBN: 9780820366142
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Explores the relationship between American literature and federalism in the early decades of the republic. Taking...  Read More >>

Working Juju: Representations of the Caribbean Fantastic

Working Juju: Representations of the Caribbean Fantastic...

Author: Andrea Shaw Nevins
ISBN: 9780820366159
Format: Paperback
$86.99

The Caribbean has historically been constructed as a region mantled by the fantastic. Andrea Shaw Nevins analyses...  Read More >>

Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Enquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America

Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Enquiry...

Author: Yarí Pérez Marín
ISBN: 9781837644216
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book offers a new evaluation of the role played by medical writing during the formative years of colonial Latin...  Read More >>

A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema: Superheroes, Science Fictions and Fantasies of Modern Law

A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema: Superheroes,...

Author: Timothy Peters
ISBN: 9781399522427
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative fiction films including The Dark Knight, Unbreakable,...  Read More >>

Revue d'Etudes Proustiennes: L'Eros Et La Mort Dans l'Oeuvre de Marcel Proust

Revue d'Etudes Proustiennes: L'Eros Et La Mort Dans...

Author: Uta Felten ,  Kristin Mlynek-Theil
ISBN: 9782406157892
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Reading Hemingway's The Garden of Eden: Glossary and Commentary

Reading Hemingway's The Garden of Eden: Glossary and...

Author: Carl P. Eby
ISBN: 9781606354582
Format: Paperback
$113.39

Published in 1986, Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Garden of Eden is a literary landmark. In this volume, Carl Eby...  Read More >>

Cather Among the Moderns

Cather Among the Moderns

Author: Janis P. Stout
ISBN: 9780817361235
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among...  Read More >>

Somewhere Else in the Market: An Essay on the Poetry of J. H. Prynne

Somewhere Else in the Market: An Essay on the Poetry...

Author: Joe Luna (University of Surrey)
ISBN: 9781009345040
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element develops a close reading of 'Britain's leading late modernist poet', J. H. Prynne. Examining the political...  Read More >>

Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry

Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry...

Author: Dara Barnat
ISBN: 9781609389079
Format: Paperback
$244.20

Presents a genealogy of Jewish American poets in dialogue with Walt Whitman, and with each other, and reveals how...  Read More >>

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