Literary studies: general books

315635 books were found.

Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries...

Author: Edward Gieskes
ISBN: 9781474496735
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Revises current thinking about how genre operates in early modern theatre  Read More >>

Translating Memories of Violent Pasts: Memory Studies and Translation Studies in Dialogue

Translating Memories of Violent Pasts: Memory Studies...

Author: Claudia Jünke (University of Innsbruck, Austria) ,  Désirée Schyns (University of Ghent, Belgium)
ISBN: 9780367711764
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This collection brings together work from memory studies and translation studies to explore the role of interlingual...  Read More >>

The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature

The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture...

Author: Maria José Somerlate Barbosa
ISBN: 9781612498522
Format: Hardback
$169.40

Adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural...  Read More >>

Reading the Kimono in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature and Film

Reading the Kimono in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature...

Author: Michiko Suzuki
ISBN: 9780824892937
Format: Hardback
$184.80

The kimono is a vibrant part of Japanese modernity, playing an integral role in literature and film in the twentieth...  Read More >>

Late Churchill: Language from Crisis to Death

Late Churchill: Language from Crisis to Death

Author: Jonathan Locke Hart
ISBN: 9781032536217
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book analyzes selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from...  Read More >>

Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750 1850: Seducing the Reader

Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750 1850: Seducing the...

Author: Corrina Readioff
ISBN: 9781399516044
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The first book-length investigation of the history of pre-chapter epigraphs in the English novel  Read More >>

Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance

Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance

Author: Caroline Gruenbaum (Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization) ,  Annegret Oehme (Associate Professor in the Department of German Studies, University of Washington, Seattle)
ISBN: 9781802700121
Format: Hardback
$356.40

A collection featuring essays from leading scholars highlighting the important Jewish contribution to the popular...  Read More >>

Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955

Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955

Author: Carl Rollyson
ISBN: 9781496835000
Format: Hardback
$51.70

Each new biography of Sylvia Plath has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath’s life and influence....  Read More >>

Fool

Fool

Author: Johanna Skibsrud
ISBN: 9781032216119
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures...  Read More >>

Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy

Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations...

Author: Cathy Yue Wang
ISBN: 9780814348635
Format: Hardback
$250.77

Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honoured fantastical texts and tales which were founded...  Read More >>

The Visitors: The remarkable debut novel from an award-winning author and playwright, for readers of Melissa Lucashenko, Shankari Chandran and Tara June Winch

The Visitors: The remarkable debut novel from an award-winning...

Author: Jane Harrison
ISBN: 9781460761984
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The most exciting debut in 2023, The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imagining of...  Read More >>

Thoreau’s Botany: Thinking and Writing with Plants

Thoreau’s Botany: Thinking and Writing with Plants

Author: James Perrin Warren
ISBN: 9780813949475
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Bringing together critical plant studies, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities, James Perrin Warren argues...  Read More >>

Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Exposure

Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative...

Author: Deborah a Martinsen
ISBN: 9780814259030
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Combines shame studies and literary criticism to uncover new perspectives on Dostoevsky as writer and psychologist,...  Read More >>

Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife...

Author: Jamie L. Jones
ISBN: 9781469674827
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Analysing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and...  Read More >>

Christianity and Western Literature: A Story of Sin and Salvation

Christianity and Western Literature: A Story of Sin...

Author: Mong Ih-ren Ambrose
ISBN: 9780227179413
Format: Paperback
$67.27

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Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature

Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature...

Author: Adrian Tait
ISBN: 9780367420789
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Routledge Companion to Literary Media

The Routledge Companion to Literary Media

Author: Astrid Ensslin ,  Julia Round
ISBN: 9780367635695
Format: Hardback
$462.00

The Routledge Companion to Literary Media examines the fast-moving present and future of a media ecosystem in which...  Read More >>

Spielformen Des Lyrischen Im Spaten Mittelalter

Spielformen Des Lyrischen Im Spaten Mittelalter

Author: Jens Haustein ,  Dorothea Klein
ISBN: 9783752007763
Format: Hardback
$472.56

Das spate Mittelalter hat Lyrik in erstaunlicher Vielfalt fur verschiedene literarische Interessengruppen und gesellschaftliche...  Read More >>

Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion: An Interpretation of Narrative, Art, and the Political

Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion: An...

Author: Timothy J. Golden
ISBN: 9781666907018
Format: Paperback
$70.99

Timothy J. Golden presents an existential, phenomenological, and political interpretation of Douglass's use of narrative....  Read More >>

9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels

9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York...

Author: Danel Olson
ISBN: 9781793638342
Format: Paperback
$70.99

This book explores ghostly presences in terrorism novels from New Yorkers Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne...  Read More >>

Attachment and Loss in the Works of James Joyce

Attachment and Loss in the Works of James Joyce

Author: Linda Horsnell
ISBN: 9781793635631
Format: Paperback
$70.99

Using Attachment Theory as a frame of reference to critically analyse grief in the works of James Joyce, Attachment...  Read More >>

The The Intelligible Ode: Intimations of Paradise

The The Intelligible Ode: Intimations of Paradise

Author: Graham Davidson
ISBN: 9780718896447
Format: Paperback
$108.24

Imagination and immortality in one of Wordsworth's most controversial poems, examined afresh in the context of Cambridge...  Read More >>

The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism

The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary...

Author: Trent Masiki
ISBN: 9781469675275
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and...  Read More >>

Europeans Are Lovin' It? Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Responses to American Global Businesses in Italy and France, 1886–2015

Europeans Are Lovin' It? Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Responses...

Author: Giulia Crisanti
ISBN: 9789004678835
Format: Hardback
$467.28

Is globalization still an American-driven process (or has it ever been)? Through a comparative analysis of the attempted...  Read More >>

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