Literary studies: general books

315669 books were found.

Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Greek Tragedy

Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead...

Author: Bridget Martin
ISBN: 9781802078442
Format: Paperback
$131.97

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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Author: Ewen Bowie (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107692091
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Brings together the many, often seminal, contributions of a leading Hellenist to our understanding of early Greek...  Read More >>

Oil and Modern World Dramas: From Petro-Mania to Petro-Melancholia

Oil and Modern World Dramas: From Petro-Mania to Petro-Melancholia...

Author: Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
ISBN: 9780367682040
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre and performance, Oil and Modern...  Read More >>

On Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer

On Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required...

Author: Stephen Marche
ISBN: 9781771965163
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is...  Read More >>

Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage

Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in...

Author: Jody Enders
ISBN: 9780472055852
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Prize-winning theatre historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest legal farces to English-speaking audiences...  Read More >>

Hemingway and Ecocriticism

Hemingway and Ecocriticism

Author: G. Srilatha
ISBN: 9781680536904
Format: Hardback
$236.50

Focuses on the famous author's short stories from ecocritical perspectives, which are concerned with the relationship...  Read More >>

The Making of Afro-Caribbean Consciousness and Identity in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson; David Dabydeen; and Fred D'Aguiar.

The Making of Afro-Caribbean Consciousness and Identity...

Author: Dilek Bulut Sar?kaya
ISBN: 9781680536980
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Having emerged from a struggle to give voice to marginalized groups in Britain, the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson,...  Read More >>

After Modernism: Women, Gender, Race

After Modernism: Women, Gender, Race

Author: Pelagia Goulimari (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781032443393
Format: Hardback
$263.00

In “after modernism” the meanings of “after” include periodisation, homage and critique. This book attends to neglected...  Read More >>

Untaming Girlhoods: Storytelling Female Adolescence

Untaming Girlhoods: Storytelling Female Adolescence...

Author: Cristina Santos (Brock University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138589551
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational...  Read More >>

The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination

The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination...

Author: John Farrell
ISBN: 9781032431574
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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American Nature Writing: Thirty Lectures

American Nature Writing: Thirty Lectures

Author: Hong Cheng
ISBN: 9781433179181
Format: Hardback
$290.27

This book introduces the origin, development and current situation of American nature writing. It analyses the works...  Read More >>

Politics, Law and Disorder in the Garden of Eden: The Quest for Identity

Politics, Law and Disorder in the Garden of Eden: The...

Author: N. A. Haug
ISBN: 9781680537178
Format: Hardback
$166.10

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Ernest Hemingway and the Short Story

Ernest Hemingway and the Short Story

Author: Zennure Köseman
ISBN: 9781680537109
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Approaches to Teaching the ""Romance of the Rose

Approaches to Teaching the ""Romance of the Rose

Author: Daisy Delogu ,  Anne-Hélène Miller
ISBN: 9781603295673
Format: Hardback
$144.10

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Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology

Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology...

Author: Adrian Kelly (University of Oxford) ,  Christopher Metcalf (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108727174
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Addresses one of the most important current questions in the study of antiquity – the contribution of the Near East...  Read More >>

The Adventures of Sparkle the Zoomorphic

The Adventures of Sparkle the Zoomorphic

Author: Aimee Herbert
ISBN: 9798392786633
Format: Paperback
$34.29

"The Adventures of Sparkle the Zoomorphic"" is a children's book that is suitable for kids aged 3-8 years old. The...  Read More >>

Salman Rushdie in Context

Salman Rushdie in Context

Author: Florian Stadtler (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781316514146
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This book is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academic researchers interested in...  Read More >>

The Art of the Reprint: Nineteenth-Century Novels in Twentieth-Century Editions

The Art of the Reprint: Nineteenth-Century Novels in...

Author: Rosalind Parry
ISBN: 9781009272049
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for...  Read More >>

Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture: Building Bridges, Not Walls

Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture:...

Author: Esther Álvarez-López (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain) ,  Andrea Fernández-García
ISBN: 9781032231600
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book presents a study of the figure of the stranger in US Latinx literary and cultural forms, ranging from...  Read More >>

Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics

Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics...

Author: Cassandra Falke ,  Victoria Fareld
ISBN: 9781032035727
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Interpreting Violence examines the ethics of engaging with representations of violence from a broad hermeneutic...  Read More >>

Edwin and Willa Muir: A Literary Marriage

Edwin and Willa Muir: A Literary Marriage

Author: The late Margery Palmer McCulloch (Formerly Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780192858047
Format: Hardback
$259.95

A joint biography of the literary marriage between Scottish poet, novelist, and translator Edwin Muir (1887-1959)...  Read More >>

Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms

Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination:...

Author: Jo Gill (Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780198868347
Format: Hardback
$202.95

Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms assesses the relationship between...  Read More >>

Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage

Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in...

Author: Jody Enders
ISBN: 9780472075850
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Prize-winning theatre historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest legal farces to English-speaking audiences...  Read More >>

Ecocriticism

Ecocriticism

Author: Greg Garrard (Bath Spa University, UK) ,  John Drakakis
ISBN: 9781032004020
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine the relationship between humans and the environment across many...  Read More >>

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