Literary studies: general books

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The Language of Dystopia

The Language of Dystopia

Author: Jessica Norledge
ISBN: 9783030931056
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian...  Read More >>

The Vernacular: Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept and its Uses in South Asia

The Vernacular: Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept...

Author: Hans Harder (Heidelberg University) ,  Nishat Zaidi (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India)
ISBN: 9781032406275
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the validity of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ and the position of the so-called ‘vernaculars’...  Read More >>

The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture

The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture

Author: Malcolm Chapman
ISBN: 9781032070261
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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Body, Self and Melancholy: The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

Body, Self and Melancholy: The Self-Narratives and Life...

Author: Siglinde Clementi
ISBN: 9781032440613
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self – focusing on three self-narratives authored...  Read More >>

Understanding Margaret Atwood

Understanding Margaret Atwood

Author: Donna M. Bickford
ISBN: 9781643364476
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Provides an overview of Margaret Attwood’s life, descriptions and analyses of the key themes present in her most...  Read More >>

Translation and Stylistic Variation: Dialect and Heteroglossia in Northern Irish Poetic Translation

Translation and Stylistic Variation: Dialect and Heteroglossia...

Author: Helen Gibson
ISBN: 9781032217123
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Translation and Stylistic Variation considers the ways in which translators use stylistic variation, analyzing the...  Read More >>

Reviewing before the Edinburgh 1788-1802

Reviewing before the Edinburgh 1788-1802

Author: Derek Roper
ISBN: 9781032576008
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1978, Reviewing before the Edinburgh is a study of English literary reviewing during the fifteen...  Read More >>

Romantic Immanence: Interventions in Alterity, 1780–1840

Romantic Immanence: Interventions in Alterity, 1780–1840...

Author: Elizabeth A. Fay
ISBN: 9781438494746
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences...  Read More >>

The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and...

Author: Mina Qiao (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
ISBN: 9781032376356
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus...  Read More >>

Le Sentier de l'Exemple: Morales Des Histoires Tragiques (1559-1630)

Le Sentier de l'Exemple: Morales Des Histoires Tragiques...

Author: Thibault Catel
ISBN: 9782406151098
Format: Paperback
$150.48

In a context of effervescent exemplarity, the histoires tragiques (1559-1630) use multiple exemplary devices and...  Read More >>

L'Erotisme Dans La Litterature Espagnole Du Xvie Siecle: Etude Des Continuations de la Celestine

L'Erotisme Dans La Litterature Espagnole Du Xvie Siecle:...

Author: Francois-Xavier Guerry
ISBN: 9782406150961
Format: Paperback
$147.84

This book explores eroticism in the six sequels (1534-1560s) of Fernando de Rojas' (1499-1502) La Celestina, a true...  Read More >>

Beyond Alterity:  Contemporary Indian Fiction and the Neoliberal Script

Beyond Alterity: Contemporary Indian Fiction and the...

Author: Shakti Jaising
ISBN: 9781837645121
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Grounded in a fine-grained analysis of contemporary Indian fiction, Beyond Alterity argues that the logic of neoliberal...  Read More >>

Decolonizing Literature: An Introduction

Decolonizing Literature: An Introduction

Author: Anna Bernard (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781509544622
Format: Hardback
$93.95

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

Protecting the Spanish Woman: Gender Identity and Empowerment in María de Zayas's Works

Protecting the Spanish Woman: Gender Identity and Empowerment...

Author: Xabier Granja Ibarreche
ISBN: 9781647790844
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Explores how Maria de Zayas, unique in the seventeenth century as the only Spanish woman to write a collection of...  Read More >>

La Plonqui: The Literary Life and Work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas

La Plonqui: The Literary Life and Work of Margarita...

Author: Jesús Rosales ,  Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez
ISBN: 9780816550173
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Celebrating more than forty years of creative writing by Chicana author Margarita Cota-Cardenas, this volume includes...  Read More >>

Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond

Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond

Author: M. E. Gkikaki
ISBN: 9781837643899
Format: Hardback
$284.63

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

H.G. Wells and the Twenty-First Century

H.G. Wells and the Twenty-First Century

Author: Bill Cooke
ISBN: 9781837645114
Format: Hardback
$284.63

So typecast has Wells’s reputation become that neither of these questions has been previously asked, but when we...  Read More >>

The Boy from Nowhere

The Boy from Nowhere

Author: Richard Robison
ISBN: 9798987007525
Format: Paperback
$46.45

A period piece memoir depicting the life of Richard Robison, who as a boy moved from town to town, swept along by...  Read More >>

Chronomania; Littérature et pensée du Temps au XIXe siècle

Chronomania; Littérature et pensée du Temps au XIXe...

Author: Myriam Kohnen
ISBN: 9782875747600
Format: Paperback
$108.68

Au XIXe siècle, les Révolutions, l'industrialisation et l'essor de la presse semblent avoir entraîné un nouveau...  Read More >>

George Moore: Spheres of Influence

George Moore: Spheres of Influence

Author: Kathryn Laing ,  Mary Pierse
ISBN: 9781837644438
Format: Hardback
$284.63

This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933)....  Read More >>

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian...

Author: Abigail Boucher
ISBN: 9783031411403
Format: Hardback
$316.77

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Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988

Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in...

Author: Eric Schmaltz
ISBN: 9781773854571
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Beginning in 1963 and continuing to the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the...  Read More >>

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