Literary studies: general books

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The "Culture of ""The Culture""": Utopian Processes in Iain M. Banks's Space Opera Series

The "Culture of ""The Culture""": Utopian Processes...

Author: Joseph S. Norman
ISBN: 9781837644230
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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Robert Service: Under the Spell of the Yukon

Robert Service: Under the Spell of the Yukon

Author: Enid Mallory ,  Jack Whyte
ISBN: 9781894384957
Format: Hardback
$71.15

Dressed in cowboy garb acquired in a Scottish auction room, a naive but committed young Robert Service stepped off...  Read More >>

Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser I, King of Assyria

Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser I, King of Assyria

Author: A H Sayce
ISBN: 9781088207840
Format: Paperback
$15.81

"The beginning of Tiglath-Pileser's I reign, laid heavy involvement in military campaigns, as suggested from translated...  Read More >>

Beschreibendes Verzeichnis Der Freidank-Uberlieferung: Handschriften, Drucke, Inschriften

Beschreibendes Verzeichnis Der Freidank-Uberlieferung:...

Author: Joachim Heinzle
ISBN: 9783777631639
Format: Hardback
$155.76

"Die mittelhochdeutsche Spruchsammlung, die ein gewisser Freidank (gestorben 1233?) wohl seit dem Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts...  Read More >>

How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists

How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists...

Author: Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781625347213
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Re-centres the work of a range of writers who were active from the nineteenth century until today. As this carefully...  Read More >>

This World Is Not My Home: A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright

This World Is Not My Home: A Critical Biography of African...

Author: W. Lawrence Hogue
ISBN: 9781625347077
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Charles Wright’s innovative fiction stands apart, offering a different vision of outcast Black Americans in the...  Read More >>

Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts: Vol. II: Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory,...

Author: Markus Winkler ,  Maria Boletsi
ISBN: 9783476046109
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept of barbarism from the eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous

Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous...

Author: Kerstin Oloff
ISBN: 9781837644223
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Ecology of the Zombie marks a significant intervention into the fields of world literature, film studies, ecocriticism,...  Read More >>

Michel Faber

Michel Faber

Author: Rodge Glass
ISBN: 9781837644773
Format: Hardback
$85.39

This book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed...  Read More >>

An = Anum and Related Lists: God Lists of Ancient Mesopotamia, Volume I

An = Anum and Related Lists: God Lists of Ancient Mesopotamia,...

Author: W.G. Lambert ,  Andrew George
ISBN: 9783161613821
Format: Hardback
$657.36

Lexical lists, especially god lists, are typical products of Mesopotamian scholarship. They combine philological...  Read More >>

I Write the Yawning Void: Selected essays of Sindiwe Magona

I Write the Yawning Void: Selected essays of Sindiwe...

Author: Sindiwe Magona ,  Renée Schatteman
ISBN: 9781776148189
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Sindiwe Magona is a celebrated South African writer, storyteller and motivational speaker known mainly for her autobiographies,...  Read More >>

Wallace Stevens In Theory

Wallace Stevens In Theory

Author: Thomas Gould ,  Ian Tan
ISBN: 9781837645145
Format: Hardback
$284.63

The modernist poetry of Wallace Stevens is replete with moments of theorizing. Stevens regarded poetry as an abstract...  Read More >>

Parvin Etesami in the Literary and Religious Context of Twentieth-Century Iran: A Female Poet’s Challenge to Patriarchy

Parvin Etesami in the Literary and Religious Context...

Author: Zhinia Noorian
ISBN: 9789087284121
Format: Hardback
$250.99

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Abstrakte Gegenstandlichkeit: Zu Adalbert Stifters Spaten Texten

Abstrakte Gegenstandlichkeit: Zu Adalbert Stifters Spaten...

Author: Benjamin Schlodder
ISBN: 9783770567645
Format: Hardback
$393.36

The study shows how social reality enters into Adalbert Stifters late texts despite their artificiality. In these...  Read More >>

Dostoevskij Verstehen: Zur Magie Der Sprache

Dostoevskij Verstehen: Zur Magie Der Sprache

Author: Walter Koschmal
ISBN: 9783770568376
Format: Hardback
$95.04

It is hardly possible to understand F. M. Dostoevsky's works without analyzing their original language. Therefore,...  Read More >>

Die Bildwelt in Walter Benjamins Kafka-Lekture

Die Bildwelt in Walter Benjamins Kafka-Lekture

Author: Haneul Lee
ISBN: 9783770568277
Format: Hardback
$242.88

Die Bildwelt in Walter Benjamins Kafka-Lekture illuminates Benjamin's enigmatic 'image world', and reveals why he...  Read More >>

Agonalitat Und Menschenliebe: Gefuhlspolitik Im Drama Des 18. Jahrhunderts

Agonalitat Und Menschenliebe: Gefuhlspolitik Im Drama...

Author: Martin Schneider
ISBN: 9783770567638
Format: Hardback
$216.48

The study reads 18th century drama in the context of two diverging concepts, agonality and philantropy. In an in-depth...  Read More >>

Monumenta: Erinnerungsorte Zwischen Weser Und Lippe

Monumenta: Erinnerungsorte Zwischen Weser Und Lippe...

Author: Julia Diekmann ,  Markus Moors
ISBN: 9783506793645
Format: Hardback
$68.64

96 b/w illus, 90 col illus, 3 b/w maps & 2 col maps  Read More >>

Die Iliasglossare Auf Papyrus: Untersuchungen Zu Einer Textkategorie

Die Iliasglossare Auf Papyrus: Untersuchungen Zu Einer...

Author: Valeria Fontanella
ISBN: 9783506791399
Format: Hardback
$242.88

54 col illus, 2 b/w graphs & 11 b/w tbls.  Read More >>

How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists

How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists...

Author: Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781625347220
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Re-centres the work of a range of writers who were active from the nineteenth century until today. As this carefully...  Read More >>

This World Is Not My Home: A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright

This World Is Not My Home: A Critical Biography of African...

Author: W. Lawrence Hogue
ISBN: 9781625347084
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Charles Wright’s innovative fiction stands apart, offering a different vision of outcast Black Americans in the...  Read More >>

Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-first Century Literature

Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-first...

Author: Katherine D. Johnston
ISBN: 9781609388935
Format: Paperback
$237.60

Analyses prescient work by contemporary authors such as Jennifer Egan, Claudia Rankine, Mohsin Hamid, and William...  Read More >>

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader

Author: James Shea ,  Grant Caldwell
ISBN: 9781032272658
Format: Paperback
$75.99

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader ushers haiku into the twenty-first century in a critically minded and historically...  Read More >>

The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor

The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor

Author: Justin Stover ,  George Woudhuysen
ISBN: 9781474492874
Format: Hardback
$323.44

A radical rewrite of the history of fourth-century Latin literature  Read More >>

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