Literary studies: general books

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Jeanette Winterson’s Narratives of Desire: Rethinking Fetishism

Jeanette Winterson’s Narratives of Desire: Rethinking...

Author: Shareena Z. Hamzah-Osbourne (University of Swansea, UK) ,  Bryan Cheyette
ISBN: 9781350229006
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Putting forward a new theory of fetishism - alternative fetishism - this book provides an up-to-date examination...  Read More >>

Xenophon’s Other Voice: Irony as Social Criticism in the 4th Century BCE

Xenophon’s Other Voice: Irony as Social Criticism in...

Author: Dr Yun Lee Too (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350250536
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This volume explores irony – in its essence, saying other than one actually means – in the collected works of Xenophon....  Read More >>

Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation

Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation...

Author: Janaka Bowman Lewis
ISBN: 9781643363868
Format: Paperback
$87.09

Examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation...  Read More >>

Perspectives on the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez: Caribbean Troubadour

Perspectives on the life and works of Gabriel García...

Author: Gustavo Arango
ISBN: 9781666916331
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book examines one of the most influential Latin American writers of the last decades. Arango explores Gabriel...  Read More >>

The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid Post-Revolution Artists and Writers

The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid...

Author: Elena Poniatowska ,  Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
ISBN: 9783031111761
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This includes Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, and Nahui Olin, three outstanding artists of the cultural renaissance...  Read More >>

Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency

Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency

Author: Amanda M. Dennis
ISBN: 9781474463003
Format: Paperback
$54.31

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Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry

Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical...

Author: Amy Lather
ISBN: 9781474462365
Format: Paperback
$54.31

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Samuel Beckett and Technology

Samuel Beckett and Technology

Author: Galina Kiryushina ,  Einat Adar
ISBN: 9781474463294
Format: Paperback
$67.25

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Fictionality

Fictionality

Author: Karen Petroski
ISBN: 9780367752316
Format: Hardback
$183.00

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Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction

Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction

Author: Jill Rappoport (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780192867261
Format: Hardback
$153.95

Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic...  Read More >>

Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination

Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages:...

Author: Ardis Butterfield (Yale University) ,  Ian Johnson (St Andrews University)
ISBN: 9781108492393
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet neglected terrain? between...  Read More >>

Vergil and Elegy

Vergil and Elegy

Author: Alison Keith ,  Micah Y. Myers
ISBN: 9781487547950
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts

Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts...

Author: Virginia Pignagnoli
ISBN: 9780814215425
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Explores how digital epitexts surrounding contemporary novels by Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Lacey,...  Read More >>

Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre: Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959-1979)

Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre:...

Author: Saeed Talajooy
ISBN: 9780755648665
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Since the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie’s oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of...  Read More >>

Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation

Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation...

Author: Janaka Bowman Lewis
ISBN: 9781643363851
Format: Hardback
$261.33

Examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation...  Read More >>

From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American...

Author: Trudier Harris
ISBN: 9780817360948
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, this new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants...  Read More >>

From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American...

Author: Trudier Harris
ISBN: 9780817361518
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants...  Read More >>

The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age

The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean...

Author: Morris Silver
ISBN: 9780674272569
Format: Paperback
$59.95

During the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled...  Read More >>

Land/Relations: Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literature

Land/Relations: Possibilities of Justice in Canadian...

Author: Smaro Kamboureli ,  Larissa Lai
ISBN: 9781771125109
Format: Paperback
$69.30

Twenty literary critics engage a variety of genres - essay, life writing, testament, polemic, poetry - to explore...  Read More >>

Medieval Translations and Their Readers

Medieval Translations and Their Readers

Author: Pavlina Rychterova ,  Jan Odstrcilik
ISBN: 9782503591902
Format: Paperback
$282.48

The papers gathered in this volume focus on 'Medieval Translations and their Readership', the special strand of...  Read More >>

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