Literary studies: general books

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Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism

Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism...

Author: David Aberbach (McGill University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032412474
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book explores the life and poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) in the context of European national literature...  Read More >>

Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry

Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry

Author: Thomas J. Nelson (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781316514375
Format: Hardback
$271.69

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

Theodoros Prodromos: Miscellaneous Poems: An Edition and Literary Study

Theodoros Prodromos: Miscellaneous Poems: An Edition...

Author: Dr Nikos Zagklas (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Vienna)
ISBN: 9780192886927
Format: Hardback
$236.00

This book comprises the first critical edition and study of a group of poems by Theodoros Prodromos, a leading poet...  Read More >>

Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time

Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time

Author: Gavin Francis (GP and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of General Practitioner)
ISBN: 9780192858177
Format: Hardback
$44.95

In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as medic in reading the work of early modern polymath...  Read More >>

Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Lauren Gillingham (University of Ottawa)
ISBN: 9781009296564
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham...  Read More >>

Cervantes the Poet: The Don Quijote, Poetic Practice, and the Conception of the First Modern Novel

Cervantes the Poet: The Don Quijote, Poetic Practice,...

Author: Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781316517390
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Recovering Cervantes' career as an itinerant poet, this study presents a new theory of the modern novel as an organic...  Read More >>

Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition: Romantic Recapitulation

Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition: Romantic Recapitulation...

Author: Sarah Houghton-Walker (Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780192870483
Format: Hardback
$183.95

This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which...  Read More >>

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

Author: Michael Wood (Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780192845825
Format: Hardback
$44.95

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust that allows author and reader to meet...  Read More >>

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea

Author: John Plotz (Mandel Professor of Humanities, Brandeis University)
ISBN: 9780192847881
Format: Hardback
$43.95

A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels that celebrates Le Guin's monumental worldbuilding...  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: 9781108479301
Format: Hardback
$181.13

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

The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story

The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story...

Author: Michael J. Collins (King's College London) ,  Gavin Jones (Stanford University)
ISBN: 9781009292818
Format: Hardback
$181.13

The short story is frequently described as American literature's preeminent form, yet new research on how it emerged...  Read More >>

[Set Verwandlungsgeschichten, 2 Bände, Tusculum]

[Set Verwandlungsgeschichten, 2 Bände, Tusculum]

Author: Publius Ovidius Naso ,  Apuleius
ISBN: 9783111314303
Format: Hardback
$348.45

Sowohl Ovids Verwandlungsgeschichten als auch Der goldene Esel des Apuleius haben bereits in der Antike ihre Leserschaft...  Read More >>

Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Feeling and Practice

Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Feeling...

Author: Kristine Steenbergh (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) ,  Katherine Ibbett (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108818025
Format: Paperback
$59.49

For readers interested in exploring the history of emotional responses to suffering, this volume describes the theory...  Read More >>

Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture: Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination

Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture: Nature,...

Author: Will Abberley (University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781108725767
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Throwing new light on how Victorians conceptualized identity, deception, originality and the relations between sciences...  Read More >>

Literary Lists: A Short History of Form and Function

Literary Lists: A Short History of Form and Function...

Author: Roman Alexander Barton ,  Eva von Contzen
ISBN: 9783031283710
Format: Hardback
$131.97

Tracing the changing functions of the literary list across time, it offers a broad range of case studies which situate...  Read More >>

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830

Author: Diane Piccitto ,  Terry F. Robinson
ISBN: 9780472132881
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and...  Read More >>

Ernst Jandl 1925–2000: Eine konkrete Biographie

Ernst Jandl 1925–2000: Eine konkrete Biographie

Author: Hans Haider
ISBN: 9783662666388
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Wie ein Popstar entführte er bei lautstarken Auftritten die Jugend der Revolte-Generation mit Sprachwitz und -spiel...  Read More >>

Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Subversive Politics

Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Subversive Politics

Author: Victoria Brehm
ISBN: 9781666921533
Format: Hardback
$178.00

A pioneering introduction to the oppositional, referential techniques Woolson developed to enter contested nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Comics and Novelization: A Literary History of Bandes Dessinées

Comics and Novelization: A Literary History of Bandes...

Author: Benoît Glaude
ISBN: 9781032436647
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Am Anfang War Das Erzahlen: Karen Blixen Und Die Bibel

Am Anfang War Das Erzahlen: Karen Blixen Und Die Bibel...

Author: Christiane Muller
ISBN: 9783825346331
Format: Hardback
$153.12

Die danische Schriftstellerin Karen Blixen reflektiert in ihrem Werk die Bedeutung des Erzahlens fur die Identitatsfindung....  Read More >>

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author...

Author: Sophus Helle
ISBN: 9780300264173
Format: Hardback
$79.20

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original...  Read More >>

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