Literary studies: general books

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Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy

Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of...

Author: Steven Frye
ISBN: 9780817321536
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Explores the values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists. Steven Frye argues...  Read More >>

On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New Genus

On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights...

Author: Susan J. Wolfson (Professor)
ISBN: 9780231206242
Format: Hardback
$99.95

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument...  Read More >>

Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading

Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading

Author: Mark I. West
ISBN: 9781538175460
Format: Hardback
$155.00

Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading brings together for the first time Roosevelt’s writings about his experiences...  Read More >>

Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence

Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after...

Author: Brahim El Guabli
ISBN: 9781531501440
Format: Hardback
$257.99

Moroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial...  Read More >>

Germany's Other Modernism: The Jena Paradigm, 1900-1914

Germany's Other Modernism: The Jena Paradigm, 1900-1914...

Author: Dr Meike G. Werner (Royalty Account) ,  Stephen D. Dowden (Translator)
ISBN: 9781640141391
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Demonstrates, contrary to conventional wisdom, that European modernism developed not only in the great metropolitan...  Read More >>

Ramón Gómez de la Serna: New Perspectives

Ramón Gómez de la Serna: New Perspectives

Author: Dr Ricardo Fernández Romero (Author) ,  Dr Ricardo Fernández Romero (Author)
ISBN: 9781855663596
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A celebrity in his own day, who gave lectures dressed as Napoleon or seated on the back of an elephant, Ramón Gómez...  Read More >>

Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide

Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide

Author: Lois Tyson (Grand Valley State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367709433
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This thoroughly updated fourth edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary...  Read More >>

Comment Les Autres Nous Voient: Proses Publiees Du Vivant de l'Auteur II 1923-1935

Comment Les Autres Nous Voient: Proses Publiees Du Vivant...

Author: Fernando Pessoa ,  Simone Biberfield
ISBN: 9782251454054
Format: Paperback
$50.16

Apres Chronique de la vie qui passe, le present volume vient completer l'edition des Proses publiees du vivant de...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction

New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction...

Author: Lars Schmeink ,  Ingo Cornils
ISBN: 9783030959654
Format: Paperback
$284.60

New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction...  Read More >>

Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing

Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s...

Author: Marja Sorvari
ISBN: 9783030958398
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet...  Read More >>

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black...

Author: Alfred Thomas
ISBN: 9783030948528
Format: Paperback
$258.72

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The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives

The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth...

Author: Jingzhen Xie
ISBN: 9783030946678
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives...  Read More >>

Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment: The Construction of the Feminine Voice in Early Medieval Chinese Literature

Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment: The Construction...

Author: Qiulei Hu
ISBN: 9789004541009
Format: Hardback
$279.84

The image and voice of abandoned women are a familiar topic to students of classical Chinese poetry. This book explores...  Read More >>

La Litterature de l'Egypte Ancienne. Volume III: Moyen Empire Et Deuxieme Periode Intermediaire

La Litterature de l'Egypte Ancienne. Volume III: Moyen...

Author: Bernard Mathieu
ISBN: 9782251454320
Format: Paperback
$113.52

L'Egypte des pharaons n'est pas que pyramides monumentales, temples majestueux ou tombes inviolees. Elle nous a...  Read More >>

Ecrire La Guerre Au Fouta-Djalon: Recits En Vers Arabes d'Expeditions Militaires Au Xixe Siecle

Ecrire La Guerre Au Fouta-Djalon: Recits En Vers Arabes...

Author: Editions Geuthner
ISBN: 9782705340353
Format: Paperback
$153.12

Mustafa Alloush, Thierno Wouri Diallo Lariya, Alfa Mamadou Lelouma, Bernard Salvaing Une nouvelle histoire du continent...  Read More >>

Fontes Antiqui Sabinorum: I Sabini E La Sabina Nelle Fonti Letteraie Grecche E Latine

Fontes Antiqui Sabinorum: I Sabini E La Sabina Nelle...

Author: Daniele F Maras ,  Laura Maria Michetti
ISBN: 9788891327437
Format: Paperback
$1488.96

"The knowledge of ancient Sabina, in its various aspects, territorial, institutional, cultural and socio-economic,...  Read More >>

Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions: Identity Perspectives from Egypt, Transjordan, Mesopotamia, and Israel in the Second Temple Period

Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions: Identity Perspectives...

Author: Benedikt Hensel ,  Bartosz Adamczewski
ISBN: 9783161618871
Format: Hardback
$427.68

Is the Hebrew Bible purely a product of Jerusalem or were there various social groups who each played a role in...  Read More >>

Dones Que Mengen El Cor de l'Amant: La Poesia de Guillem de Cabestany, El Chatelain de Coucy I Reinmar Von Brennenberg

Dones Que Mengen El Cor de l'Amant: La Poesia de Guillem...

Author: Joan Dalmases
ISBN: 9791254692141
Format: Paperback
$97.68

La llegenda del cor menjat va gaudir d'una gran popularitat durant la Baixa Edat Mitjana, concretament a partir...  Read More >>

Sky and Earth: Travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo

Sky and Earth: Travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco...

Author: Giuseppe Mussardo ,  Gaspare Polizzi
ISBN: 9783031186103
Format: Paperback
$72.42

700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional...  Read More >>

River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation

River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation

Author: Nuzhat Abbas ,  Françoise Vergès
ISBN: 9781775256748
Format: Paperback
$47.52

""Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work.""- from the Foreword by Françoise Vergès. What are the histories,...  Read More >>

Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature

Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American...

Author: Matthias Klestil
ISBN: 9783030821043
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally....  Read More >>

L'Exercice de l'Ame Vertueuse: (1596/97)

L'Exercice de l'Ame Vertueuse: (1596/97)

Author: Marie Le Gendre
ISBN: 9782406150381
Format: Paperback
$108.24

"""If little is known about the life of Marie Le Gendre, this collection allows us to discover her thinking, representative...  Read More >>

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