Literary studies: general books

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Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

Author: Laura Kalas (Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Medical Humanities) ,  Laura Varnam
ISBN: 9781526171580
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of 'encounter' to provide dynamic readings...  Read More >>

Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle...

Author: Joseph Bristow
ISBN: 9781487546083
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice

Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern...

Author: Kathryn Taylor
ISBN: 9781644533000
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing...  Read More >>

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters,...

Author: Brenda E.F. Beck
ISBN: 9781487529338
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Building on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known...  Read More >>

Simplicity and Purity: Poets, Farmers and Parsis of Gandhi’s Gujarati and Reading Gandhi in Two Tongues

Simplicity and Purity: Poets, Farmers and Parsis of...

Author: Tridip Suhrud
ISBN: 9789354423604
Format: Paperback
$75.24

It is enriching to explore his modes of thoughts through two tongues.  Read More >>

Eduardo Galeano: Through The Looking Glass – Through The Looking Glass

Eduardo Galeano: Through The Looking Glass – Through...

Author: Daniel Fischlin ,  Martha Nandorfy
ISBN: 9781551641799
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Eduardo Galeano--the single most important literary voice to come out of Latin America in the last decades.  Read More >>

Reading with the Rsi: A Cross-Cultural and Comparative Literary Approach to Valmiki’s Ramayana

Reading with the Rsi: A Cross-Cultural and Comparative...

Author: Robert P. Goldman
ISBN: 9789354422829
Format: Paperback
$72.60

The essay examines the poem in terms of western and Indian aesthetic norms and tastes as a work of world literature...  Read More >>

Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction

Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine...

Author: Aaron Kreuter
ISBN: 9781772126570
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist,...  Read More >>

Beautiful Cities in Indiana: Top 5 cities to visit in Indiana and their History.

Beautiful Cities in Indiana: Top 5 cities to visit in...

Author: Jaden James
ISBN: 9798394164538
Format: Paperback
$29.01

Indiana is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is the 38th largest state by area and...  Read More >>

Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course

Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation...

Author: Laura Kalas
ISBN: 9781843846840
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse.  Read More >>

Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public Speech

Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public...

Author: Florian Gargaillo
ISBN: 9780807179352
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Charts the ways that poets have responded to the cliches of public speech from the start of the Second World War...  Read More >>

Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period

Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press...

Author: Rachel Stenner ,  Kaley Kramer
ISBN: 9783030880576
Format: Paperback
$336.35

Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period illuminates the diverse ways that people in the...  Read More >>

Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom: Teaching and Texts

Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom:...

Author: Laurence W. Mazzeno ,  Sue Norton
ISBN: 9783030941680
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand...  Read More >>

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales

Author: Paul Russell
ISBN: 9780814253779
Format: Paperback
$98.20

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales provides the first complete edition and discussion of the earliest surviving fragment...  Read More >>

Der Generationenroman

Der Generationenroman

Author: Helmut Grugger ,  Johann Holzner
ISBN: 9783111280172
Format: Paperback
$116.13

Der anhaltende internationale Trend zu Generationenromanen, eine klare Herausforderung für die Literaturwissenschaften,...  Read More >>

Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235: Cross-Cultural Interactions

Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235:...

Author: Alice König (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Rebecca Langlands (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781108713719
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Explores new ways of understanding texts, practices and ideas that connected different cultural and religious groups...  Read More >>

Ennius' Annals: Poetry and History

Ennius' Annals: Poetry and History

Author: Cynthia Damon (University of Pennsylvania) ,  Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781108723169
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Advances the study of Ennius' Annals, a foundational but now fragmentary work of Latin literature, by exploring...  Read More >>

The Vernacular Aristotle: Translation as Reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

The Vernacular Aristotle: Translation as Reception in...

Author: Eugenio Refini (New York University)
ISBN: 9781108741439
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and...  Read More >>

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X: Translation and Commentary

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X: Translation and...

Author: Joachim Aufderheide (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781107506947
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A hybrid between traditional commentary and monograph exploring the final, most arresting book of Aristotle's Ethics...  Read More >>

Greek Memories: Theories and Practices

Greek Memories: Theories and Practices

Author: Luca Castagnoli (University of Oxford) ,  Paola Ceccarelli (University College London)
ISBN: 9781108458351
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory...  Read More >>

Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments

Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments

Author: James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781108718622
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The agricultural writings of the third-century Roman author Gargilius Martialis provide an important perspective...  Read More >>

Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World

Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World

Author: Giuseppe Pezzini (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Barnaby Taylor (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108727815
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The first collection of essays dedicated to Roman linguistic naturalism, a major but under-studied area of Roman...  Read More >>

Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography

Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography

Author: A. D. Morrison (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781108729253
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Examines the relationship of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica with Herodotus' Histories. Argues that it uses Herodotean...  Read More >>

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