Literary studies: general books

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Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane

Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx...

Author: Dr Mark Asquith (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781501372230
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers – John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane...  Read More >>

Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World

Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The...

Author: Jörg Matthias Determann (Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar)
ISBN: 9780755650361
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed...  Read More >>

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the...

Author: Christopher Ricks (Professor, Professor, Boston University)
ISBN: 9780192882837
Format: Hardback
$377.00

The latest volume in Oxford's new edition of Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen, this volume brings together...  Read More >>

Iris Murdoch and the Others: A Writer in Dialogue with Theology

Iris Murdoch and the Others: A Writer in Dialogue with...

Author: Professor Paul S. Fiddes
ISBN: 9780567703385
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The 'others' examined by Fiddes are mainly those with whom Murdoch entered into explicit dialogue in her novels...  Read More >>

Poesie Et Musique Au Temps de Louis XII

Poesie Et Musique Au Temps de Louis XII

Author: Adeline Desbois-Ientile ,  Alice Tacaille
ISBN: 9782406146728
Format: Hardback
$253.44

Et si l'on pouvait retrouver des piáeces chantâees dans les corpus poâetiques? Râeinterprâeter la place de la poâesie...  Read More >>

British Children's Literature and Material Culture: Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914

British Children's Literature and Material Culture:...

Author: Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll (Ussher Assistant Professor in Children’s Literature, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ,  Lisa Sainsbury (University of Roehampton UK)
ISBN: 9781350201828
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The ‘golden age’ of children’s literature in the late 19th and early 20th century coincided with a boom in the production...  Read More >>

Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery

Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation...

Author: Constante González Groba ,  Ewa Barbara Luczak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
ISBN: 9781032409627
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange. This volume...  Read More >>

Writers and Their Teachers

Writers and Their Teachers

Author: Dale Salwak
ISBN: 9781350272262
Format: Hardback
$40.00

By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved...  Read More >>

LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century

LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to...

Author: Dr Robert C. Evans
ISBN: 9781350371828
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the...  Read More >>

Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided...

Author: Jacob Mikanowski
ISBN: 9780861542598
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A farewell to Eastern Europe and its vanishing culture.  Read More >>

New Beginnings: Perspectives from France and Ireland

New Beginnings: Perspectives from France and Ireland...

Author: Eamon Maher ,  Máirtin Mac Con Iomaire
ISBN: 9781800797932
Format: Paperback
$103.50

‘New Beginnings’ deals with a word brought to a standstill by...  Read More >>

The Poet and Existence – Text Contents and the Interaction of Reality, Myths and Symbols in Hatif Janabi′s Poetry

The Poet and Existence – Text Contents and the Interaction...

Author: Yousef Sh′hadeh
ISBN: 9788323350088
Format: Paperback
$108.68

This book presents a critical study of five poetry collections by the Iraqi poet Hatif Janabi (Hātif Janābī) published...  Read More >>

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry...

Author: Amy Paeth
ISBN: 9780231194396
Format: Paperback
$57.95

The American Poet Laureate shows how the state has been the silent center of poetic production in the United States...  Read More >>

The Early Thrillers of Dean Koontz: Essays on the Evolution of a Writer, 1973-1987

The Early Thrillers of Dean Koontz: Essays on the Evolution...

Author: Gary Hoppenstand ,  Garyn G. Roberts
ISBN: 9780786434527
Format: Paperback
$131.87

A compilation of essays that examines the fiction of Dean Koontz, from his earliest literary efforts in the 1960s...  Read More >>

Schillers Werke. Nationalausgabe: Band 19/II: Historische Schriften. Anmerkungen zu den Bänden 17 und 18, Register zu den Bänden 17–19/I

Schillers Werke. Nationalausgabe: Band 19/II: Historische...

Author: Norbert Oellers
ISBN: 9783740010454
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Der Band 19 II der Schiller Nationalausgabe bietet erstmals einen umfassenden historisch-kritischen Anmerkungsapparat...  Read More >>

Sabuja Kabita: Srasta O Srusti

Sabuja Kabita: Srasta O Srusti

Author: Sushri Sandhya Mohanty
ISBN: 9781645603467
Format: Paperback
$42.24

ସବୁଜ କବିତାର ଦିଗ୍]ବଳୟ ଖୁବ୍ ପ୍ରସାରିତ ନୁହେଁ । ପୁଣି ଏ ଗୋଷ୍ଠୀର କବିଙ୍କ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ଖୁବ୍ ସୀମିତ । ପାଞ୍ଚଜଣ ବନ୍ଧୁ ଏକାଠି ହୋଇ କିଛି...  Read More >>

Love Through the Ages: The Impact of Famous Love Stories on Modern Relationships

Love Through the Ages: The Impact of Famous Love Stories...

Author: Rajesh Giri
ISBN: 9798215222546
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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Tragic Encounters: Pushkin and European Romanticism

Tragic Encounters: Pushkin and European Romanticism...

Author: Maksim Hanukai
ISBN: 9780299341404
Format: Hardback
$237.47

Literary scholars largely agree that the Romantic period altered the definition of tragedy, but they have confined...  Read More >>

A Century of Italian War Narratives: Voices from the Sidelines

A Century of Italian War Narratives: Voices from the...

Author: Luigi Gussago ,  Pina Palma
ISBN: 9789004541108
Format: Hardback
$287.76

The volume explores Italian war narratives from the perspective of individuals largely excluded from the pages of...  Read More >>

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry...

Author: Amy Paeth
ISBN: 9780231194389
Format: Hardback
$232.95

The American Poet Laureate shows how the state has been the silent center of poetic production in the United States...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists

Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists...

Author: Joanna Devereux
ISBN: 9781526161697
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This is the first book to focus on women illustrators in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It...  Read More >>

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