Literary studies: general books

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John Donne’s Language of Disease: Eloquent Blood

John Donne’s Language of Disease: Eloquent Blood

Author: Alison Bumke
ISBN: 9781032448770
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Nost/algia as a Mode of Reflection in the Autobiographical Narratives of Joseph Conrad and Henry James

Nost/algia as a Mode of Reflection in the Autobiographical...

Author: Mirosława Buchholtz ,  Sylwia Wojciechowska
ISBN: 9783631879597
Format: Hardback
$98.32

Sylwia Janina Wojciechowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at Ignatianum Jesuit University...  Read More >>

The Maximum Security Book Club

The Maximum Security Book Club

Author: Mikita Brottman
ISBN: 9780062384348
Format: Paperback
$50.13

A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in...  Read More >>

Modernist Circumnavigations: Around the World in Jules Verne's Wake

Modernist Circumnavigations: Around the World in Jules...

Author: Kevin Riordan
ISBN: 9783030962432
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel,...  Read More >>

Leon Battista Alberti, 'de Pictura' (Lat.): Kunsttheorie - Rhetorik - Narrative / Teoria Dell'arte, Retorica, Narrative

Leon Battista Alberti, 'de Pictura' (Lat.): Kunsttheorie...

Author: Gregor Schoffberger ,  Hartmut Wulfram
ISBN: 9783515132503
Format: Hardback
$253.44

Leon Battista Albertis Abhandlung uber die Malerei De pictura, gegliedert in drei 'Bucher', markiert ungeachtet...  Read More >>

Erzahlte Religion: Theologie Und Glaube Im Portugiesischen Roman Des 18. Jahrhunderts

Erzahlte Religion: Theologie Und Glaube Im Portugiesischen...

Author: Markus Ebenhoch
ISBN: 9783465046172
Format: Paperback
$298.32

Religion moved people in 18th-century Europe like no other topic. But how to speak publicly about religion when,...  Read More >>

Choice in Charles Dickens's Later Novels: The Spectator's Art

Choice in Charles Dickens's Later Novels: The Spectator's...

Author: Keith Easley
ISBN: 9789004528499
Format: Hardback
$345.84

How much choice do you have in life? Charles Dickens’s dramatisation of the relationship between characters and...  Read More >>

The Riddle of Literary Quality: A Computational Approach

The Riddle of Literary Quality: A Computational Approach...

Author: Karina van Dalen-Oskam
ISBN: 9789048558148
Format: Hardback
$276.86

What is literature? Can we measure ‘literariness’ in texts themselves? The innovative Computational Humanities project...  Read More >>

La Version Z de l'Ovide Moralise

La Version Z de l'Ovide Moralise

Author: Prunelle Deleville
ISBN: 9782406149095
Format: Paperback
$364.32

"At the end of the fourteenth century, the Ovide moralise was ""demoralized"" in a few manuscripts, those of the...  Read More >>

This Will Not Be Generative

This Will Not Be Generative

Author: Dixa Ramírez-D'Oleo (Brown University, Rhode Island)
ISBN: 9781009320320
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Attends to the semiotics of ecological writings via Caribbean literary studies and black critical theory. Closely...  Read More >>

Perilous Journey in the Prose Fiction of Don Gutteridge

Perilous Journey in the Prose Fiction of Don Gutteridge...

Author: Brian T W Way
ISBN: 9781989786888
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Perilous Journey, by PhD scholar Brian T.W. Way, published by QuodSermo Publishing, offers an analytical overview...  Read More >>

Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 98 (2023)

Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 98 (2023)

Author: Gerhard Lauer ,  Nikolaus Weichselbaumer
ISBN: 9783447120166
Format: Hardback
$324.72

Das Gutenberg-Jahrbuch zeichnet sich als internationales buchwissenschaftliches Publikationsorgan durch seine grosse...  Read More >>

Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry

Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry

Author: Thomas J. Nelson (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009078191
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Challenging established narratives of literary history, this book explores how the earliest known Greek poets signposted...  Read More >>

This Distracted Globe: Attending to Distraction in Shakespeare's Theatre

This Distracted Globe: Attending to Distraction in Shakespeare's...

Author: Jennifer J. Edwards (The Queen's College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108969901
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Drawing on scholarly research, artist experience, and audience behaviour, This Distracted Globe considers the disruptive,...  Read More >>

The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

Author: Roberta L. Krueger (Hamilton College, New York)
ISBN: 9781108749589
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Courtly romance was the most important vernacular literary genre during the Middle Ages in Europe. This new Companion...  Read More >>

La Version Z de l'Ovide Moralise

La Version Z de l'Ovide Moralise

Author: Prunelle Deleville
ISBN: 9782406149101
Format: Hardback
$514.80

"At the end of the fourteenth century, the Ovide moralise was ""demoralized"" in a few manuscripts, those of the...  Read More >>

Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City

Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in...

Author: Prof Kenneth M. Price (Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
ISBN: 9780198889526
Format: Paperback
$40.95

Whitman in Washington analyses Whitman's integrated life, writings, and government work in his urban context to...  Read More >>

Beckett and Stein

Beckett and Stein

Author: Georgina Nugent (Universität Wien, Austria)
ISBN: 9781108984355
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element is for scholars of Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and literary modernism. It is of interest to those...  Read More >>

Japanese Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Japanese Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Alan Tansman (Professor of Japanese, Professor of Japanese, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780199765256
Format: Paperback
$25.95

With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, Japanese literature is infused from its beginnings with written...  Read More >>

Experiment Und Komplexitat: Literarische Versuchsanordnungen in Juli Zehs Spieltrieb Und Lukas Barfuss' Koala

Experiment Und Komplexitat: Literarische Versuchsanordnungen...

Author: Esther Stern
ISBN: 9783968219875
Format: Paperback
$224.40

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Lucretius and the End of Masculinity

Lucretius and the End of Masculinity

Author: Michael Pope (Brigham Young University, Utah)
ISBN: 9781009242318
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first book-length study of sexuality and gender in De rerum natura. Argues that the understanding of the universe...  Read More >>

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