Literary studies: general books

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The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses

The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers...

Author: Declan Kiberd ,  Professor Enrico Terrinoni (University of Perugia, Italy)
ISBN: 9781803289359
Format: Paperback
$24.99

To celebrate the centenary of Ulysses's publication, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers each respond to an episode...  Read More >>

The People of Print: Seventeenth-Century England

The People of Print: Seventeenth-Century England

Author: Rachel Stenner (University of Sussex) ,  Kaley Kramer
ISBN: 9781009380683
Format: Paperback
$32.32

This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the seventeenth century. With an equal...  Read More >>

Postcolonial George Eliot

Postcolonial George Eliot

Author: Oliver Lovesey
ISBN: 9781349673490
Format: Paperback
$89.99

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient...  Read More >>

Representations Et Voix de Femmes: Lyrique de Croisade Et Litterature Narrative (Xiie-Xve Siecle)

Representations Et Voix de Femmes: Lyrique de Croisade...

Author: Nadine Henrard ,  Marjolaine Raguin
ISBN: 9782406146070
Format: Hardback
$240.24

The contributions to the volume attempt to participate in an encounter between various textual corpus and methods....  Read More >>

Writing, Politics and Change in South Africa after Apartheid

Writing, Politics and Change in South Africa after Apartheid...

Author: Christopher Warnes (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009307369
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This book shows how South African writing can help us to understand change after apartheid. It focusses on changes...  Read More >>

Valerius Flaccus and Imperial Latin Epic

Valerius Flaccus and Imperial Latin Epic

Author: Tim Stover (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780192870919
Format: Hardback
$164.95

This book explores the reception of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica in the epic poems of Silius Italicus, Statius,...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy

Author: Elana Gomel ,  Danielle Gurevitch
ISBN: 9783031263965
Format: Hardback
$580.77

This handbook is the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of fantasy outside the Anglo-American hegemony. While...  Read More >>

Hallucinatory Realism in Chinese Literature: Essays on Mo Yan and His Novels in China

Hallucinatory Realism in Chinese Literature: Essays...

Author: Lin Jiang
ISBN: 9789819906659
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This edited collection of 14 essays presents the most enlightening research findings on Mo Yan and his novels. The...  Read More >>

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis

Author: Joel Fredell
ISBN: 9783031279638
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers...  Read More >>

Digital Storytelling and Ethics: Collaborative Creation and Facilitation

Digital Storytelling and Ethics: Collaborative Creation...

Author: Amanda Hill
ISBN: 9781032061238
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Digital Storytelling and Ethics provides a method for analyzing digital storytelling practices that focuses on the...  Read More >>

The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy

The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's...

Author: Dr Emily Shortslef (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780192868480
Format: Hardback
$153.95

The first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama, arguing that poetic forms of complaint--expressions...  Read More >>

Essays on Anton P. Chekhov: Close Readings

Essays on Anton P. Chekhov: Close Readings

Author: Robert Louis Jackson ,  Cathy Popkin
ISBN: 9798887190921
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This long-awaited and much-anticipated volume comprises a carefully collated collection of Robert Louis Jackson'sessayson...  Read More >>

Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel

Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense...

Author: Carolin Gebauer
ISBN: 9783111280240
Format: Paperback
$42.81

Inspired by structuralist and cognitive narratologies, Making Time develops a model for the description and analysis...  Read More >>

A Guest at the Feast

A Guest at the Feast

Author: Colm Tóibín
ISBN: 9780241970614
Format: Paperback
$28.44

A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where...  Read More >>

A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean

A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early...

Author: Elizabeth Spragins
ISBN: 9781531501570
Format: Paperback
$64.99

No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating...  Read More >>

Life Storying in Oral History: Fictional Contamination and Literary Complexity

Life Storying in Oral History: Fictional Contamination...

Author: Jarmila Mildorf
ISBN: 9783111072265
Format: Hardback
$171.51

"""Fictional Contamination"" captures the fact that even conversational storytelling has a potential for fictionalization...  Read More >>

Die Deutschen Gesellschaften des 18. Jahrhunderts: Ein Gruppenbild

Die Deutschen Gesellschaften des 18. Jahrhunderts: Ein...

Author: Andreas Erb
ISBN: 9783110776133
Format: Hardback
$222.99

"The German Societies that assigned themselves the role of maintaining German ""language, poetry, and eloquence""...  Read More >>

Proclo – Lo stile e il sistema della teologia

Proclo – Lo stile e il sistema della teologia

Author: Miriam Cutino
ISBN: 9783111084978
Format: Hardback
$171.51

Proclus, successor of the School of Athens in the fifth century AD, is one of the last great voices of a pagan polytheistic...  Read More >>

Subversions: Essays on Life and Literature

Subversions: Essays on Life and Literature

Author: Shashi Deshpande ,  Nancy E. Batty
ISBN: 9789357764605
Format: Paperback
$39.95

The present collection invites its readers to enter that fascinating dialogue.  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature

Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical...

Author: Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona, USA)
ISBN: 9781138567245
Format: Hardback
$410.00

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Persian literature from 650BCE through until the seventeenth...  Read More >>

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