Literary studies: general books

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Encyclopedia of the Holy Grail

Encyclopedia of the Holy Grail

Author: Jeffrey John Dixon
ISBN: 9781476687940
Format: Paperback
$50.60

For hundreds of years, the Grail story has haunted the western imagination. But the original medieval texts are...  Read More >>

Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry

Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry

Author: Irmtraud Huber
ISBN: 9781399511810
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Demonstrates what Victorian poetry tells us about the relationship between poetry and time  Read More >>

Love for a Laugh: The Comic in Romantic Chuanqi Plays of the 17th and 18th Centuries

Love for a Laugh: The Comic in Romantic Chuanqi Plays...

Author: Yanbing Tan
ISBN: 9789004547728
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This book highlights the crucial but previously understudied role that the comic plays in the romantic chuanqi plays....  Read More >>

Montage: Works by Debora Vogel

Montage: Works by Debora Vogel

Author: Debora Vogel ,  Anastasiya Lyubas
ISBN: 9798987160930
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Inspired by the use of montage in film and photography, cubist collage, atonal music, and the genre of reportage...  Read More >>

Paulus und der Nous: Eine Untersuchung zur paulinischen Anthropologie vor dem Hintergrund hellenistisch-jüdischer und griechisch-römischer Konzeptionen

Paulus und der Nous: Eine Untersuchung zur paulinischen...

Author: Manuel Nägele
ISBN: 9783161619557
Format: Paperback
$347.24

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, series 3, volume 17: Essays in Memory of Paul E. Szarmach

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, series...

Author: Joel T. Rosenthal (Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, State University of New York, Stony Brook) ,  Virginia Blanton (Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English, University of Missouri)
ISBN: 9781802700527
Format: Hardback
$411.84

An annual publication of historiographical essays on the pre-modern world; this issue celebrating the life and work...  Read More >>

Teaching the History of the Book

Teaching the History of the Book

Author: Matteo Pangallo ,  Emily B. Todd
ISBN: 9781625347329
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Presenting a variety of methods for teaching book history both as its own subject and as an approach to other material,...  Read More >>

Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1: Text, Translation and Commentary

Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1: Text, Translation...

Author: Giulia Marolla
ISBN: 9781399510776
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Studies the first half of Sidonius' fifth book of letters from a philological, literary and historical perspective...  Read More >>

Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place

Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place

Author: Laura Wright ,  Jessica Cory
ISBN: 9780820363943
Format: Hardback
$303.47

A collection of scholarly essays that engage environmental and ecocritical theories and Appalachian literature and...  Read More >>

Cannibal Translation Volume 44: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America

Cannibal Translation Volume 44: Literary Reciprocity...

Author: Isabel Gómez
ISBN: 9780810145962
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Cannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source materials. Isabel Gomez makes the case...  Read More >>

Fighting Over There: U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature

Fighting Over There: U.S. War Making and Contemporary...

Author: Alaina Kaus
ISBN: 9781625347183
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to Now: Inner Lives Over Time

Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to Now: Inner Lives...

Author: Nathan M. Szajnberg
ISBN: 9781666922554
Format: Hardback
$160.00

How did we develop our sense of inner life? This book follows Auerbach’s Mimesis, journeying over two millennia...  Read More >>

Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care

Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War:...

Author: Marie Allitt
ISBN: 9781474489928
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Explores how military medical practitioners articulated and represented their spatial and sensory experiences of...  Read More >>

Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives

Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's...

Author: Victoria Aarons
ISBN: 9780814349151
Format: Hardback
$250.77

Argues that Jewish women graphic novelists are preoccupied with embodied memory: the way the body materializes memory....  Read More >>

Geography of Horror: Spaces, Hauntings and the American Imagination

Geography of Horror: Spaces, Hauntings and the American...

Author: Marko Lukić
ISBN: 9783030993276
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book provides a comprehensive reading of a space/place-based experience from the birth of the American horror...  Read More >>

The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond

The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi,...

Author: Kuan-yun Huang
ISBN: 9789882372863
Format: Hardback
$145.20

The Guodian manuscripts are a cache of literary and philosophical texts from the fourth century BCE, discovered...  Read More >>

Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production

Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin...

Author: Cecily Raynor ,  Rhian Lewis
ISBN: 9781487508685
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Digital Encounters approaches connectivity as a gravitational centre of contemporary Latin American cultural production....  Read More >>

Lucian's Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East

Lucian's Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular...

Author: Inger NI Kuin
ISBN: 9780472133345
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Contextualizes Lucian’s comedic performances in the intellectual life of the second century CE Roman East broadly,...  Read More >>

Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy

Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy

Author: Basil Dufallo ,  Riemer A. Faber
ISBN: 9780472133406
Format: Hardback
$237.60

As the first book to focus on the comparison of Roman Hellenisms per se, Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy shows...  Read More >>

The Literary Career of W. B. Trites

The Literary Career of W. B. Trites

Author: Richard E. Rex
ISBN: 9781680537277
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature

Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature...

Author: Muireann Maguire
ISBN: 9781803742205
Format: Paperback
$142.31

Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. The volume...  Read More >>

Modernitalia: Edited by Francesca Santovetti

Modernitalia: Edited by Francesca Santovetti

Author: Jeffrey Schnapp
ISBN: 9781803742236
Format: Paperback
$142.31

Provides a map of the Italian twentieth century in the form of twelve essays. This volume explores the metaphysics...  Read More >>

Balzac, Fictions Genetiques II

Balzac, Fictions Genetiques II

Author: Pierre Laforgue
ISBN: 9782406146797
Format: Paperback
$97.68

This book does not seek to examine the genesis of Balzac's fiction, but instead the fiction that did emerge from...  Read More >>

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