Literary studies: general books

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Fictions of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination

Fictions of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist...

Author: Orian Zakai
ISBN: 9780228017059
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Fictions of Gender explores how contemporary controversies surrounding Zionism and feminism are prefigured in the...  Read More >>

Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy

Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy

Author: Miléna Santoro ,  Jack A. Yeager
ISBN: 9780228017370
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Touching Beauty is the first collection of critical essays on the work of Vietnamese-born Quebec author Kim Thúy....  Read More >>

Canadian Literary Fare

Canadian Literary Fare

Author: Nathalie Cooke ,  Shelley Boyd
ISBN: 9780228016632
Format: Paperback
$100.19

When literary writers place food in front of their characters, they ask readers to be alert to the meaning and implication...  Read More >>

Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter

Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless...

Author: Gary Saul Morson
ISBN: 9780674971806
Format: Hardback
$65.95

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues...  Read More >>

Lawrence Durrell’s Poetry: A Rift in the Fabric of the World

Lawrence Durrell’s Poetry: A Rift in the Fabric of the...

Author: Isabelle Keller-Privat
ISBN: 9781683930648
Format: Paperback
$72.99

Lawrence Durrell’s Poetry offers an in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell’s entire poetic opus, from his early collections...  Read More >>

Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters: Perspectives on Exchange in the Sattelzeit

Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters: Perspectives...

Author: Michael Wood ,  Sandro Jung
ISBN: 9781611462944
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters contains essays focusing on the roles of drama and poetry in Anglo-German...  Read More >>

Comics Art in China

Comics Art in China

Author: John A. Lent ,  Xu Ying
ISBN: 9781496846471
Format: Paperback
$48.40

In the most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject, Comics Art in China covers almost all comics...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Dilemmas: Encounters with Art in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Literary Modernism

Aesthetic Dilemmas: Encounters with Art in Hugo von...

Author: Marlo Alexandra Burks
ISBN: 9780228016656
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is frequently portrayed as an aloof writer, out of step with modern sensibilities. Aesthetic...  Read More >>

War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon

War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon

Author: Yasmine Khayyat
ISBN: 9780815637936
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender

Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding...

Author: Tison Pugh
ISBN: 9781496845320
Format: Paperback
$48.40

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Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution

Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and...

Author: Chloe Ashbridge
ISBN: 9781032436609
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies

The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies...

Author: Judith Harris
ISBN: 9781032009490
Format: Hardback
$263.00

The Poetry of Loss presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring...  Read More >>

Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald...

Author: Robert Garnett
ISBN: 9780807179345
Format: Hardback
$105.47

F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, at the age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement,...  Read More >>

Magic in Early Modern England: Literature, Politics, and Supernatural Power

Magic in Early Modern England: Literature, Politics,...

Author: Andrew Moore
ISBN: 9781498575515
Format: Hardback
$175.00

This book places early modern philosophy and political theory into conversation with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban...

Author: Lori Oxford
ISBN: 9781666910032
Format: Hardback
$163.00

This work examines Gutiérrez’s Centro Habana Cycle (1998-2003) as a literary response to the social, political,...  Read More >>

A Diabolical Voice: Heresy and the Reception of the Latin ""Mirror of Simple Souls"" in Late Medieval Europe

A Diabolical Voice: Heresy and the Reception of the...

Author: Justine L. Trombley
ISBN: 9781501769610
Format: Hardback
$158.27

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Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era

Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold...

Author: Yasha Yakov Klots
ISBN: 9781501768958
Format: Hardback
$131.87

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Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism

Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism

Author: Alex Bevan
ISBN: 9781786839947
Format: Hardback
$145.95

Gothic literature is very popular today, and many places have become tourist attractions because they are either...  Read More >>

War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon

War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon

Author: Yasmine Khayyat
ISBN: 9780815638001
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender

Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding...

Author: Tison Pugh
ISBN: 9781496845313
Format: Hardback
$159.50

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New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature: From ‘‘Native’’ to Transnational

New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature:...

Author: Frauke Matthes
ISBN: 9783031103179
Format: Hardback
$343.17

The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural...  Read More >>

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Covid-19: A Tale of Two Pandemics

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Covid-19:...

Author: Stuart Sim
ISBN: 9783031312854
Format: Hardback
$131.97

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic....  Read More >>

Fecondite: Oeuvres Completes - Les Quatre Evangiles, I

Fecondite: Oeuvres Completes - Les Quatre Evangiles,...

Author: Emile Zola ,  Marie Lapiere
ISBN: 9782406147909
Format: Paperback
$150.48

Published in 1899, Fecondite, the first volume of the novel cycle of the Quatre Evangiles, offers a story that moves...  Read More >>

Dictionnaire Victor Hugo

Dictionnaire Victor Hugo

Author: Claude Millet ,  David Charles
ISBN: 9782406146247
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Articles on Victor Hugo's contemporaries, friends, opponents and family, as well as on the international reception...  Read More >>

Annotations: On the Early Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois

Annotations: On the Early Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois...

Author: Nahum Dimitri Chandler
ISBN: 9781478018421
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Nahum Dimitri Chandler offers a philosophical interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1897 American Negro Academy address,...  Read More >>

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