Literary studies: general books

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La Fabrique Du Roman Classique: Lire, Editer, Enseigner Les Romans Du Xviie Siecle de 1700 a 1900

La Fabrique Du Roman Classique: Lire, Editer, Enseigner...

Author: Camille Esmein-Sarrazin
ISBN: 9782406150398
Format: Paperback
$97.68

"The eighteenth-century parnasses established a set of topics concerning the seventeenth-century novel. After the...  Read More >>

Car Me Jugez Le Dreit: Droit Et Justice Dans l'Epopee Medievale

Car Me Jugez Le Dreit: Droit Et Justice Dans l'Epopee...

Author: Bernard Ribemont ,  Claude Gauvard
ISBN: 9782406150350
Format: Paperback
$118.80

"The aim of this study is to establish, in a comparative approach between the epic fiction of the ""chanson de geste""...  Read More >>

Dereglement Et Politique Des Corps Au Moyen Age: Les Corps Desordonnes

Dereglement Et Politique Des Corps Au Moyen Age: Les...

Author: Bruno Lemesle
ISBN: 9782406150190
Format: Paperback
$97.68

Christian authors in the Middle Ages came to elaborate the figure of the being who has gone astray. They developed...  Read More >>

Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Zachary Tavlin
ISBN: 9780817321567
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Examines how the ‘glance’ rather than the ‘gaze’ in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to...  Read More >>

Jesus of Nazareth in the Literature of Unamuno

Jesus of Nazareth in the Literature of Unamuno

Author: C.A. Longhurst
ISBN: 9781837720422
Format: Hardback
$145.95

Though widely recognised as one of Spain's greatest writers of modern times, Miguel de Unamuno (18641936) was feared...  Read More >>

Ferne und Nähe: Nähe- und Distanzdiskurse in der deutschen Sprache und Literatur

Ferne und Nähe: Nähe- und Distanzdiskurse in der deutschen...

Author: Prof. Dr. Maria Paola Bissiri ,  Prof. Dr. Daniela Puato
ISBN: 9783847116165
Format: Hardback
$124.17

Ferne und Nähe aus der Perspektive der Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft  Read More >>

Barbey d'Aurevilly Et Le Romantisme

Barbey d'Aurevilly Et Le Romantisme

Author: Mathilde Bertrand ,  Elise Sorel
ISBN: 9782406147442
Format: Paperback
$150.48

Proceedings of the seminar ""Barbey d'Aurevilly et le romantisme,"" held at Sorbonne Universitâe from 2016 to 2019....  Read More >>

Revue d'Histoire Litteraire de la France

Revue d'Histoire Litteraire de la France

Author: Classiques Garnier
ISBN: 9782406151746
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Contributeurs: Jerome Bastianelli, Stephane Chaudier, Antoine Compagnon, Patrick Dandrey, Luc Fraisse, Cynthia Gamble,...  Read More >>

""A Mind Purified by Suffering"": Evgenia Ginzburg's ""Whirlwind"" Memoirs

""A Mind Purified by Suffering"": Evgenia Ginzburg's...

Author: Olga M. Cooke
ISBN: 9798887191706
Format: Hardback
$270.00

""A Mind Purified by Suffering:"" Evgenia Ginzburg's ""Whirlwind"" Memoirs is the first book on Ginzburg's Journey...  Read More >>

Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines: Literature, Law, Religion, and Native Custom

Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines: Literature,...

Author: John Blanco
ISBN: 9789463725880
Format: Hardback
$467.28

In Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines, the author analyzes the literature and politics of “spiritual...  Read More >>

Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances

Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer...

Author: Nicole Svobodny
ISBN: 9781793653536
Format: Hardback
$222.00

The first in-depth study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing, this book combines textual analysis and literary theory...  Read More >>

Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China

Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern...

Author: Shu Yang
ISBN: 9781501770616
Format: Hardback
$131.87

""Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled ""shrew"" to the celebrated...  Read More >>

Ovid's Tragic Heroines: Gender Abjection and Generic Code-Switching

Ovid's Tragic Heroines: Gender Abjection and Generic...

Author: Jessica A. Westerhold
ISBN: 9781501770357
Format: Hardback
$139.79

""This book explores the reception of the fifth-century B.C.E. Greek tragic heroines Phaedra and Medea in the poems...  Read More >>

The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture

The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century...

Author: William Cook Miller
ISBN: 9781501770807
Format: Hardback
$145.07

""This book tells the story of the birth, rise, and intergenerational revision of the 'Enthusiast' character type...  Read More >>

Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Tita Chico
ISBN: 9781684484799
Format: Paperback
$100.19

As a symbol of both progressive and retrograde versions of femininity, Designing Women establishes the dressing...  Read More >>

Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2: Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain

Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2: Literature,...

Author: Michael McKeon
ISBN: 9781684484751
Format: Paperback
$126.72

Emphasizes the British Enlightenment’s effects on the future rather than its break with the past. Michael McKeon...  Read More >>

Shakespeare without Print

Shakespeare without Print

Author: Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin University, Virginia)
ISBN: 9781009204224
Format: Paperback
$43.99

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A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction

A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction...

Author: Sarah J. Link
ISBN: 9783031332296
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective...  Read More >>

Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice: Narratives from Kerala

Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice: Narratives...

Author: R. Sreejith Varma
ISBN: 9781032293707
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice investigates eleven contemporary environmental justice narratives from...  Read More >>

Translation and Repetition: Rewriting (Un)original Literature

Translation and Repetition: Rewriting (Un)original Literature...

Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
ISBN: 9781032481289
Format: Paperback
$77.99

"Translation and Repetition: Rewriting (Un)original Literature offers a new and original perspective in Translation...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch

The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch

Author: Frances B. Titchener (Utah State University) ,  Alexei V. Zadorojnyi (University of Liverpool)
ISBN: 9780521176569
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Plutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. This volume provides an engaging introduction...  Read More >>

The Making of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas

The Making of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Pas moi, That...

Author: Dr James Little (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) ,  Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp Belgium)
ISBN: 9781350269057
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This volume of the BDMP series charts the genesis of three iconic Beckett plays: Not I (1973), That Time (1976)...  Read More >>

Ptolemy I Soter: Themes and Issues

Ptolemy I Soter: Themes and Issues

Author: Professor Edward M. Anson (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)
ISBN: 9781350260801
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great’s successors....  Read More >>

A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of John Berger

A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of John...

Author: Yasmin Gunaratnam ,  Amarjit Chandan
ISBN: 9781350429253
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The first collection of essays dedicated to examining the work of John Berger, with cross-cultural contributions...  Read More >>

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