Literary studies: general books

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Future Fame in the Iliad: Epic Time and Homeric Studies

Future Fame in the Iliad: Epic Time and Homeric Studies...

Author: Dr Yukai Li (Carleton University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350239203
Format: Paperback
$59.99

When Homeric heroes think about the meaning of their actions, they expect this to take the form of kleos, 'fame',...  Read More >>

Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species: The Hesitations of an Evolutionist

Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species: The Hesitations...

Author: Richard G. Delisle ,  James Tierney
ISBN: 9781350259768
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Widely seen as evolution’s founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose...  Read More >>

Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World

Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World

Author: Erin Sebo ,  Matthew Firth
ISBN: 9783031339646
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the...  Read More >>

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in Black and White

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in Black and White

Author: Josephine Nock-Hee Park (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009323437
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in Black and White explores the relation between text, author, and reader – a nexus theorized...  Read More >>

The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction

The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Professor Martin Hewitt (Professor of History, Professor of History, Anglia Ruskin University)
ISBN: 9780198736813
Format: Paperback
$21.95

The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

Author: Anne E. Fernald (Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fordham University)
ISBN: 9780198885511
Format: Paperback
$94.95

A Handbook on Woolf's achievements as an innovative novelist and pioneering feminist theorist. It studies her life,...  Read More >>

Space as Language: The Properties of Typographic Space

Space as Language: The Properties of Typographic Space...

Author: Will Hill (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009265430
Format: Paperback
$32.32

This Element examines the function and significance of typographic space. It considers in turn the space within...  Read More >>

The Changeling: The State of Play

The Changeling: The State of Play

Author: Professor Gordon McMullan (King's College London, UK) ,  Kelly Stage (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
ISBN: 9781350288430
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling...  Read More >>

Rousseau Et Le Roman

Rousseau Et Le Roman

Author: Colas Duflo ,  Coralie Bournonville
ISBN: 9782812409172
Format: Hardback
$232.32

The studies brought together in this volume tackle different aspects of La Nouvelle Heloise: its writing, its aesthetics,...  Read More >>

Analogie Et Recit de Voyage: Voir, Mesurer, Interpreter Le Monde

Analogie Et Recit de Voyage: Voir, Mesurer, Interpreter...

Author: Alain Guyot
ISBN: 9782406155737
Format: Hardback
$237.60

What is the role of analogy and its related figures in the development of the travel account, between the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

Teaching Equity through Children’s Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms

Teaching Equity through Children’s Literature in Undergraduate...

Author: Gayatri Devi ,  Philip Smith
ISBN: 9781032423586
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Teaching Equity through Children’s Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms offers answers to the central question...  Read More >>

Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands: The Challenge of Trieste

Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands: The Challenge...

Author: Marianna Deganutti
ISBN: 9781032213255
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste,...  Read More >>

The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500

The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500...

Author: Prof Michael Johnston (Associate Professor of English, Purdue University)
ISBN: 9780192871770
Format: Hardback
$183.95

A new account of Middle English book production and circulation that analyzes 202 literary manuscripts from late...  Read More >>

Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene

Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene...

Author: Tore Rye Andersen (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781009377577
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The book provides a revolutionary new reading of Thomas Pynchon's three major historical novels as a coherent global...  Read More >>

Le transfert des littératures francophones en(tre) périphérie: Pratiques de sélection, de médiation et de lecture

Le transfert des littératures francophones en(tre) périphérie:...

Author: Mickaëlle Cedergren ,  Ylva Lindberg
ISBN: 9789176352069
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Cette étude porte sur la circulation, la médiation et l'interprétation des littératures francophones, circulant...  Read More >>

Hellenisme Et Prophetie: Les Oracles Sibyllins Juifs Et Chretiens

Hellenisme Et Prophetie: Les Oracles Sibyllins Juifs...

Author: Xavier LaFontaine
ISBN: 9782503607962
Format: Paperback
$298.32

The formal study of the collection of Jewish and Christian texts transmitted under the name of Sibylline Oracles...  Read More >>

In 200 Büchern um den Globus: Expeditionen in die neuere Weltliteratur

In 200 Büchern um den Globus: Expeditionen in die neuere...

Author: Achim Hölter
ISBN: 9783205217770
Format: Paperback
$87.95

Literaturkritik von einem Literaturwissenschaftler, mit einer Prise artistischer Ambition. Das Experiment: 200 Bücher...  Read More >>

The Art of Writing Fiction

The Art of Writing Fiction

Author: Andrew Cowan
ISBN: 9781138593695
Format: Paperback
$54.99

An elegant insight into the personal and practical processes of writing, Andrew Cowan’s The Art of Writing Fiction...  Read More >>

The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

Author: Professor Robert Hampson, FEA FRSA (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) ,  Véronique Pauly (University of Versailles, France)
ISBN: 9781350291492
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Born and brought up in Poland bilingually in French and Polish but living for most of his professional life in England...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Greek Mythology and Modern Society

An Introduction to Greek Mythology and Modern Society...

Author: Jerrad Lancaster
ISBN: 9781793555403
Format: Paperback
$134.20

Provides students with a collection of curated readings that discuss the placement of myths in ancient and modern...  Read More >>

Animal Satire

Animal Satire

Author: Robert McKay ,  Susan McHugh
ISBN: 9783031248719
Format: Hardback
$310.47

Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the...  Read More >>

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