Literary studies: general books

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Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire

Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire

Author: Phebe Lowell Bowditch
ISBN: 9783031147999
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses...  Read More >>

Überwachung in der Gegenwart: Fiktionale und faktuale Erzählungen, Narrative und ihre Perspektiven

Überwachung in der Gegenwart: Fiktionale und faktuale...

Author: Sabrina Huber
ISBN: 9783110999341
Format: Paperback
$68.55

This volume examines texts about surveillance culture, asking questions like: How do we tell stories of mass and...  Read More >>

Voicing Memories, Unearthing Identities: Studies in the Twenty-First-Century Literatures of Eastern and East-Central Europe

Voicing Memories, Unearthing Identities: Studies in...

Author: Aleksandra Konarzewska
ISBN: 9781648896248
Format: Hardback
$277.20

The authors take the literature of countries such as Estonia, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, and Russia as the point of...  Read More >>

Vieillesses en Chine et en France: Mots, textes, images

Vieillesses en Chine et en France: Mots, textes, images...

Author: Laurent Gautier ,  Isabelle Guinamard
ISBN: 9783631864432
Format: Hardback
$139.73

L’actuel ouvrage s’intéresse aux représentations de la vieillesse en Chine et en France à travers les mots, les...  Read More >>

Trattati greci sui tropi: Introduzione ed edizione critica

Trattati greci sui tropi: Introduzione ed edizione critica...

Author: Maria Giovanna Sandri
ISBN: 9783111072142
Format: Hardback
$205.83

In Greek and Latin, tropes are generally defined as variations from a linguistic and stylistic norm, and are in...  Read More >>

Literary Translation Research in China

Literary Translation Research in China

Author: Roberto A. Valdeón (University of Oviedo, Spain) ,  Youbin Zhao (Jinan University, China)
ISBN: 9781032486291
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides an overview of the research carried out by Chinese scholars in the field of literary translation....  Read More >>

Ulisse: Rifrangenze Poetiche

Ulisse: Rifrangenze Poetiche

Author: Lorenzo Braccesi
ISBN: 9788891328489
Format: Paperback
$335.28

Eugamone nella perduta Telegonia, Euripide 'satiresco' nel Ciclope, Licofrone nell'oscura Alessandra, Cicerone poeta...  Read More >>

Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe: Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries)

Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe:...

Author: Malika Bastin-Hammou ,  Giovanna Di Martino
ISBN: 9783110718652
Format: Hardback
$222.99

This book brings together insights from Classics, Reception and Translation Studies to outline the European dimension...  Read More >>

Der Jansenismus im deutschsprachigen Raum, 1670–1789: Bücher, Bilder, Bibliotheken

Der Jansenismus im deutschsprachigen Raum, 1670–1789:...

Author: Christoph Schmitt-Maaß
ISBN: 9783110796957
Format: Hardback
$154.35

From the mid-17th century, an inner-Catholic reform movement congregated around the idea of Jansenism, updating...  Read More >>

Europaeische Avantgarde, Experimentalfilm und US-amerikanischer Spielfilm: Inszenierungen des Koerpers im Film der 1920er, -40er und -50er Jahre

Europaeische Avantgarde, Experimentalfilm und US-amerikanischer...

Author: Matthias Bauer ,  Sophie Jürgens-Tatje
ISBN: 9783631892534
Format: Hardback
$178.54

Der Körper steht in den 1920er Jahren häufig im Zentrum der Filmproduktion. Im europäischen Avantgardefilm bildet...  Read More >>

Terry Pratchett Could Save the World

Terry Pratchett Could Save the World

Author: Rebecca Ann Bach
ISBN: 9781032445656
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Au Coeur de l'Ephemere: Fluchtigkeit Und Performativitat in Der Gegenwartslyrik Aus Quebec: Rosalie Lessard, Francois Rioux, Maggie Roussel

Au Coeur de l'Ephemere: Fluchtigkeit Und Performativitat...

Author: Jana Nurnberger
ISBN: 9783770568055
Format: Hardback
$271.92

How can poems not only make the ephemeral a theme and motif, but also create it? In poems by Rosalie Lessard, Francois...  Read More >>

Meinen Schweizer Aufenthalt Wohlgefallig Zu Verbuchen...: Robert Musils Schweizer Exiljahre 1938-42

Meinen Schweizer Aufenthalt Wohlgefallig Zu Verbuchen...:...

Author: Nanao Hayasaka
ISBN: 9783770567959
Format: Hardback
$504.24

19 b/w illus, 164 col illus, 2 b/w tbls, 1 b/w map & 8 col maps  Read More >>

Neue Subjektivitat: Paradoxe Subjekte Denken Und Erzahlen in Den 1970er Jahren

Neue Subjektivitat: Paradoxe Subjekte Denken Und Erzahlen...

Author: Ruth Signer
ISBN: 9783770567713
Format: Hardback
$190.08

The study identifies a paradoxical constitution of the self for the ""New Subjectivity"". Many texts already question...  Read More >>

The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815

The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age...

Author: Sarah Burdett
ISBN: 9783031154737
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during...  Read More >>

Critical Survey of Mythology & Folklore: Deadly Battles & Warring Enemies

Critical Survey of Mythology & Folklore: Deadly Battles...

Author: Robert C. Evans
ISBN: 9781637004487
Format: Hardback
$473.00

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The Poetry of Li He

The Poetry of Li He

Author: Robert Ashmore ,  Sarah M. Allen
ISBN: 9781501513299
Format: Hardback
$108.21

Li He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat outside the mainstream, but in every generation...  Read More >>

Les Ecrivains Et Le Pouvoir En Lorraine Au Xvie Siecle

Les Ecrivains Et Le Pouvoir En Lorraine Au Xvie Siecle...

Author: Alain Culliere
ISBN: 9782406152019
Format: Paperback
$208.56

The reign of Charles III, which saw the affirmation of the notion of the state of Lorraine, constitutes an excellent...  Read More >>

La Representation de la Mort Dans La Litterature Francaise de la Renaissance

La Representation de la Mort Dans La Litterature Francaise...

Author: Claude Blum
ISBN: 9782406152002
Format: Paperback
$208.56

"From the individualization and internalization of death to figures representing ""dying"" in the Essais, this reference...  Read More >>

Grammaire (1572)

Grammaire (1572)

Author: Pierre de La Ramee
ISBN: 9782406151982
Format: Paperback
$76.56

An innovative thinker, Ramus broke with the structure of Latin grammars and the rigid frameworks of Donatus and...  Read More >>

Lucain Et La Litterature de l'Age Baroque En France: Citation, Imitation Et Creation

Lucain Et La Litterature de l'Age Baroque En France:...

Author: Jean-Claude Ternaux
ISBN: 9782406151081
Format: Paperback
$150.48

The Pharsalia is probably the Latin work that is the most in line with the Baroque period. This study analyzes the...  Read More >>

Moralia Et Oeuvres Morales a la Renaissance

Moralia Et Oeuvres Morales a la Renaissance

Author: Olivier Guerrier
ISBN: 9782406089346
Format: Paperback
$118.80

"The texts in this collection analyze the reception of Plutarch's Moralia in sixteenth-century Europe. They reveal...  Read More >>

Pontus de Tyard: Errances Et Enracinement

Pontus de Tyard: Errances Et Enracinement

Author: Francois Rouget
ISBN: 9782406089056
Format: Paperback
$118.80

"The studies collected here show the many sides of the humanist encyclopedist, at once poet, translator, editor,...  Read More >>

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