Literary studies: general books

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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 >>

La Monstruosite Du Langage Dans Les Recits Apres 1945: Une Generation Tardive

La Monstruosite Du Langage Dans Les Recits Apres 1945:...

Author: Vivien Matisson
ISBN: 9782406146988
Format: Paperback
$198.00

Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, Albert Camus, and Louis-Rene des Forets make up a generation of writers that profoundly...  Read More >>

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays...

Author: Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780393355772
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Lively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature and events from a “masterful critic and master...  Read More >>

Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s

Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s...

Author: Matthew Sturgis
ISBN: 9781843680734
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Matthew Sturgis examines the varying extents to which ambitious poets, penurious painters, canny publishers and...  Read More >>

The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde

The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the...

Author: Florian Mussgnug
ISBN: 9781803741994
Format: Paperback
$119.03

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Writing Manchuria: The Lives and Literature of Zhu Ti and Li Zhengzhong

Writing Manchuria: The Lives and Literature of Zhu Ti...

Author: Norman Smith (University of Guelph, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032376301
Format: Hardback
$263.00

"Writing Manchuria details the lives and translates a selection of fiction from one of the mid-twentieth century’s...  Read More >>

Unlocking the Future: The Urban Imagination in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

Unlocking the Future: The Urban Imagination in Contemporary...

Author: Luo Xiaoming
ISBN: 9781032483382
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination: A Critical Companion

Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination: A Critical...

Author: D. Harlan Wilson
ISBN: 9783030969486
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking...  Read More >>

Mary Robinson and the Gothic

Mary Robinson and the Gothic

Author: Jerrold E. Hogle (University of Arizona)
ISBN: 9781009160872
Format: Paperback
$43.99

A focussed examination of Mary Robinson's deployment of the Gothic in a selection of her poetry and prose fiction....  Read More >>

Rilke: The Life of the Work

Rilke: The Life of the Work

Author: Dr Charlie Louth (Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198885559
Format: Paperback
$70.95

A full-length study of the work of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). The Life of the Work studies...  Read More >>

Balzac, Fictions Genetiques II

Balzac, Fictions Genetiques II

Author: Pierre Laforgue
ISBN: 9782406146803
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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

Contending Representations I: The Dutch Republic and the Lure of Monarchy

Contending Representations I: The Dutch Republic and...

Author: Joris Oddens ,  Alessandro Metlica
ISBN: 9782503605173
Format: Hardback
$166.32

This volume is the first book-length study to thematise the representation of power in the seventeenth-century Dutch...  Read More >>

Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays

Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays

Author: Chuck Augello
ISBN: 9781476690704
Format: Paperback
$84.70

A collection of 29 interviews explores the outer reaches of the Kurt Vonnegut universe. A valuable resource for...  Read More >>

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