Literary studies: general books

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Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal,...

Author: Kathryn Walkiewicz
ISBN: 9781469672953
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Theorizes the logics of federalism and states’ rights in the production of US empire, revealing how they were used...  Read More >>

Grundthemen Der Literaturwissenschaft: Interpretation

Grundthemen Der Literaturwissenschaft: Interpretation...

Author: Eric Achermann
ISBN: 9783110407822
Format: Hardback
$485.73

'Interpretation' steht für eine Praxis, die Sinn und Wert sprachlicher oder zeichenhafter Äußerungen betrifft. Als...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Without a Life

Shakespeare Without a Life

Author: Margreta de Grazia ,  Suzanne Toren
ISBN: 9798874666040
Format: Audio
$34.29

A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Without a Life

Shakespeare Without a Life

Author: Margreta de Grazia ,  Suzanne Toren
ISBN: 9798874666057
Format: Audio
$34.29

A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth...  Read More >>

The Threshold: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early Medieval China

The Threshold: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early...

Author: Zeb Raft
ISBN: 9780674291379
Format: Hardback
$86.95

The Threshold, a study of the culture of historiography in early medieval China, explores the History of Liu-Song,...  Read More >>

Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians

Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews...

Author: Frederick E. Brenk ,  Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
ISBN: 9789004531956
Format: Hardback
$443.52

Frederick Brenk has devoted a scholarly lifetime to explicating the complexities of Plutarch’s thought. Plutarch...  Read More >>

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal,...

Author: Kathryn Walkiewicz
ISBN: 9781469672946
Format: Hardback
$159.50

Theorizes the logics of federalism and states’ rights in the production of US empire, revealing how they were used...  Read More >>

Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel: Poetics and Rhetoric

Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel: Poetics...

Author: Mar�lia Futre Pinheiro ,  Massimo Fusillo
ISBN: 9789493194540
Format: Hardback
$290.40

"In the Greek world under the Roman Empire, the tradition of rhetorical learning reached its heyday in the second...  Read More >>

The War Trumpet: Iberian Epic Poetry, 1543-1639

The War Trumpet: Iberian Epic Poetry, 1543-1639

Author: Emiro Martínez-Osorio ,  Mercedes Blanco
ISBN: 9781487546328
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This collection of original essays offers new ways of understanding the production of epic poetry in Portugal and...  Read More >>

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 48: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 48: Studies in Medieval...

Author: Jan Bloemendal ,  Reinhold F. Glei
ISBN: 9781538177853
Format: Hardback
$152.00

Volume 48 presents the outcome of an international workshop (“Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama”) held...  Read More >>

African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts: The Case of John Edgar Wideman

African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century...

Author: Stephen Casmier
ISBN: 9781793614629
Format: Paperback
$67.99

The six novels that John Edgar Wideman wrote from 1987 to 2017 enable reassessment of the quarantining of the Black...  Read More >>

Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science

Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern...

Author: Debapriya Sarkar
ISBN: 9781512823356
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally

Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages:...

Author: Dr Kathryn Loveridge ,  Liz Herbert McAvoy
ISBN: 9781843846567
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical,...  Read More >>

The Making of the Good Person: Self-Help, Ethics and Philosophy

The Making of the Good Person: Self-Help, Ethics and...

Author: Nora Hämäläinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
ISBN: 9781032390109
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in popular self-help literature....  Read More >>

Dialogue on the Threshold: Heidegger and Trakl

Dialogue on the Threshold: Heidegger and Trakl

Author: Ian Alexander Moore
ISBN: 9781438490663
Format: Paperback
$89.63

A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship to the poet Georg Trakl.  Read More >>

Galen's Humanistic Medicine: The Essay, Quod Optimus Medicus

Galen's Humanistic Medicine: The Essay, Quod Optimus...

Author: Aileen R. Das
ISBN: 9783161619571
Format: Hardback
$277.20

The present volume offers an edition, updated English translation of, introduction to, and seven multi-authored...  Read More >>

Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory / Réparation, restitution et les politiques de la mémoire: Perspectives from Literary, Historical, and Cultural Studies / Perspectives littéraires, historiques et culturelles

Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory...

Author: Mario Laarmann ,  Clément Ndé Fongang
ISBN: 9783110799507
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Over the past two decades, the concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture have gained momentum...  Read More >>

Milton and Music

Milton and Music

Author: Seth Herbst
ISBN: 9781032457215
Format: Hardback
$105.00

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Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity

Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel,...

Author: Kathy Alexis Psomiades (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780192863720
Format: Hardback
$153.95

What happens when another genre of writing lays claim to the novel's traditional subject of marriage? This book...  Read More >>

The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit

The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the...

Author: Dr Rose A Sawyer (Author)
ISBN: 9781843846512
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The first comprehensive study of medieval changelings and associated attitudes to the health and care of children...  Read More >>

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