Literary studies: general books

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Literature and Society: Essays and Arguments

Literature and Society: Essays and Arguments

Author: Mark Falcoff
ISBN: 9781667899671
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A collection of essays surveying the works of literature by such masters as Malraux, James, Waugh and others, placing...  Read More >>

Barbey d'Aurevilly Et Le Romantisme

Barbey d'Aurevilly Et Le Romantisme

Author: Mathilde Bertrand ,  Elise Sorel
ISBN: 9782406147459
Format: Hardback
$298.32

Proceedings of the seminar ""Barbey d'Aurevilly et le romantisme,"" held at Sorbonne Universitâe from 2016 to 2019....  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: 9782406150367
Format: Hardback
$266.64

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: 9782406150206
Format: Hardback
$248.16

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

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: 9782406150404
Format: Hardback
$240.24

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

Teaching Shakespeare and His Sisters: An Embodied Approach

Teaching Shakespeare and His Sisters: An Embodied Approach...

Author: Emma Whipday (Newcastle University)
ISBN: 9781108972161
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element explores the possibilities of an 'embodied' pedagogical approach as a tool to inform literary analysis;...  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: 9781684484768
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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

New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains

New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason...

Author: James Newlin ,  James W. Stone
ISBN: 9781032308296
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The essays in New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains engage a broad spectrum...  Read More >>

Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II

Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity...

Author: Gill Plain (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781316513200
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This book addresses the legacy of World War II on male identity and reinvention. It considers some of the many ways...  Read More >>

Dante and the Practice of Humility: A Theological Commentary on the Divine Comedy

Dante and the Practice of Humility: A Theological Commentary...

Author: Rachel K. Teubner (Australian Catholic University, Melbourne)
ISBN: 9781009315357
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Examines humility as theologically central to the Comedy. Canto by canto, Teubner demonstrates the many means by...  Read More >>

A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction

A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction...

Author: Sarah J. Link
ISBN: 9783031332265
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack'

Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman...

Author: Caroline Gonda (St Catharine's College, Cambridge) ,  Chris Roulston (University of Western Ontario)
ISBN: 9781009280730
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first edited collection on Anne Lister (1791-1840), this interdisciplinary book explores how her diaries (as...  Read More >>

Translation and Repetition: Rewriting (Un)original Literature

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

Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
ISBN: 9781032490250
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege

Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege...

Author: Adam Parkes (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9780192866295
Format: Hardback
$183.95

The early twentieth century saw a radical redrawing of Britain's social and political map as its hereditary aristocracy...  Read More >>

Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India

Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth...

Author: James White (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (University of Oxford UK)
ISBN: 9780755644568
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the Arabian...  Read More >>

Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield: A Manuscript Critical Edition

Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield: A Manuscript...

Author: Katherine Mansfield ,  Professor Todd Martin
ISBN: 9781350096653
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story and...  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: 9781350260818
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts: Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts: Postcolonial...

Author: Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann (University of Potsdam, Germany)
ISBN: 9781501399503
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""A systematic analysis of contemporary verse novels and how textual gaps serve as symbolic interventions into...  Read More >>

Situating Josephus’ Life within Ancient Autobiography: Genre in Context

Situating Josephus’ Life within Ancient Autobiography:...

Author: Davina Grojnowski (independent scholar, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350320161
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Davina Grojnowski examines Life, the autobiographical text written by ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus,...  Read More >>

Authorship, Activism and Celebrity: Art and Action in Global Literature

Authorship, Activism and Celebrity: Art and Action in...

Author: Sandra Mayer (University of Vienna, Austria) ,  Ruth Scobie (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781501392337
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""Explores the relationship between literature, politics, and celebrity in global cultural contexts from the 18th...  Read More >>

A Late Antique Poetics?: The Jeweled Style Revisited

A Late Antique Poetics?: The Jeweled Style Revisited...

Author: Joshua Hartman ,  Helen Kaufmann
ISBN: 9781350346406
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object...  Read More >>

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled...

Author: Marta Usiekniewicz
ISBN: 9783031291593
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime...  Read More >>

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