Literary studies: general books

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Hölderlin′s Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843

Hölderlin′s Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life,...

Author: Giorgio Agamben ,  Alta L. Price
ISBN: 9781803091150
Format: Hardback
$41.95

One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest...  Read More >>

Rumors of Revolution: Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial Louisiana

Rumors of Revolution: Song, Sentiment, and Sedition...

Author: Jennifer Tsien
ISBN: 9780813949611
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Analyses documented observations made in Paris and in New Orleans about the exercise of royal power over French...  Read More >>

James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising as Modern Event

James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising...

Author: Professor Luke Gibbons
ISBN: 9780226824475
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization.   When revolutionaries...  Read More >>

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient: Other Encounters

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval...

Author: Liliana Sikorska
ISBN: 9781501521492
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian...  Read More >>

Making Black History: Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism

Making Black History: Diasporic Fiction in the Moment...

Author: Dominique Haensell
ISBN: 9783111266657
Format: Paperback
$34.23

This study proposes that Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct cultural moment or historical constellation...  Read More >>

Die Argonauten in Afrika: Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar zur Libyenepisode der ›Argonautika‹ des Apollonios von Rhodos (A.R. 4,1223-1781)

Die Argonauten in Afrika: Einleitung, Übersetzung und...

Author: Stefanie Stürner
ISBN: 9783111259376
Format: Paperback
$42.81

The Libyan episode (4. 1223-1781) is one of the key passages in Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica and has thus far...  Read More >>

Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature

Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature

Author: Dimitrios Kanellakis
ISBN: 9783111276618
Format: Paperback
$34.23

Do you believe in love at first sight? The Greeks and the Romans certainly did. But far from enjoying this romantic...  Read More >>

Berlin International: Literaturszenen in der geteilten Stadt (1970‒1989)

Berlin International: Literaturszenen in der geteilten...

Author: Susanne Klengel ,  Jutta Müller-Tamm
ISBN: 9783110789416
Format: Paperback
$92.37

By the time West Berlin was declared the European Capital of Culture of 1988, a heavily internationalized literary...  Read More >>

Rumors of Revolution: Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial Louisiana

Rumors of Revolution: Song, Sentiment, and Sedition...

Author: Jennifer Tsien
ISBN: 9780813949604
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Analyses documented observations made in Paris and in New Orleans about the exercise of royal power over French...  Read More >>

James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising as Modern Event

James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising...

Author: Professor Luke Gibbons
ISBN: 9780226824468
Format: Hardback
$173.95

A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization.   When revolutionaries...  Read More >>

Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy

Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy...

Author: Shannon McHugh
ISBN: 9789463720274
Format: Hardback
$369.60

This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution...  Read More >>

Visages Singuliers Du Plutarque Humaniste: Autour d'Amyot Et de la Reception Des Moralia Et Des Vies a la Renaissance

Visages Singuliers Du Plutarque Humaniste: Autour d'Amyot...

Author: Olivier Guerrier
ISBN: 9782251454344
Format: Paperback
$73.92

La traduction par Amyot des Vies des hommes illustres et des Moralia de Plutarque est au coeur de cette enquete...  Read More >>

Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster: The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair with New York City

Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster: The Antebellum South's...

Author: Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr. ,  Scott Romine
ISBN: 9780807179338
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, this volume examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum...  Read More >>

Greek Translations of Roman Gods

Greek Translations of Roman Gods

Author: Bradley Buszard
ISBN: 9783111071794
Format: Hardback
$188.67

This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the translations of Roman gods in literary Greek. It addresses Roman...  Read More >>

Géométrie et philosophie des mathématiques au Xe siècle: Œuvre mathématique d’al-Sijzī. Volume II

Géométrie et philosophie des mathématiques au Xe siècle:...

Author: Roshdi Rashed ,  Pascal Crozet
ISBN: 9783111167947
Format: Hardback
$222.99

Al-Sijzī est un mathématicien de la deuxième moitié du xe siècle. Il occupe une place centrale au sein d'une génération...  Read More >>

Kulturpoetik des Moores: Ressource, Phobotop, Reservoir

Kulturpoetik des Moores: Ressource, Phobotop, Reservoir...

Author: Joana van de Löcht ,  Niels Penke
ISBN: 9783110786644
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Moors are currently all the rage, and not just due to renaturation projects for CO2 storage. Literature has also...  Read More >>

Schriften Zu Fitness Und Gymnastik: Griechisch - Deutsch

Schriften Zu Fitness Und Gymnastik: Griechisch - Deutsch...

Author: Galenos ,  Kai Brodersen
ISBN: 9783111246116
Format: Hardback
$87.09

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Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950

Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950

Author: Professor T S Eliot
ISBN: 9780151211852
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"An indispensable collection of the Nobel Prize winner's most renowned works ""In ten years' time,"" wrote Edmund...  Read More >>

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine...

Author: Simone Fraisse
ISBN: 9782406146889
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Charles Peguy devoted more than fifteen years of his life to the too little-known Cahiers de la Quinzaine. This...  Read More >>

Theatre Complet. Volumes I a XVIII.

Theatre Complet. Volumes I a XVIII.

Author: Moliere ,  Charles Mazouer
ISBN: 9782406151876
Format: Paperback
$538.56

This set contains the heighteen volumes of Moliere's complete theater in the scientific edition by Charles Mazouer....  Read More >>

Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments

Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish...

Author: Arianna Introna
ISBN: 9783030992750
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments explores the intersection between...  Read More >>

Les Provinciales

Les Provinciales

Author: Blaise Pascal ,  Louis Cognet
ISBN: 9782812427466
Format: Paperback
$55.44

"In this masterpiece of polemical literature, armed only with his keen sense of irony and indignation, Pascal defends...  Read More >>

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