Literary studies: general books

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East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century

East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial...

Author: Siegfried Huigen ,  Dorota Kołodziejczyk
ISBN: 9783031174865
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe during the twentieth century, examining local...  Read More >>

Reading Spaces in Modern Japan: The Evolution of Sites and Practices of Reading

Reading Spaces in Modern Japan: The Evolution of Sites...

Author: Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781009181037
Format: Paperback
$32.32

This study provides an accessible overview of the range of reading spaces in modern Japan, and the evolution thereof...  Read More >>

The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's ""Reveries of the Solitary Walker""

The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's ""Reveries of the Solitary...

Author: Thomas L. Pangle
ISBN: 9781501769221
Format: Hardback
$343.20

""""The first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic...  Read More >>

On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy

On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy

Author: Elizabeth Coggeshall
ISBN: 9781487548179
Format: Hardback
$135.00

On Amist comprehensively examines the value of friendship in late medieval Italy.  Read More >>

Litcomix: Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel

Litcomix: Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel

Author: Adam Geczy ,  Jonathan McBurnie
ISBN: 9781978828667
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France

The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval...

Author: Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier ,  Tracy Adams
ISBN: 9781644532904
Format: Paperback
$126.59

Argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period...  Read More >>

Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in Early...

Author: Meredith K. Ray ,  Lynn Lara Westwater
ISBN: 9781644533048
Format: Paperback
$126.59

The essays in Gendering the Renaissance offer a nuanced picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and...  Read More >>

Verstorungsprosa: Das Kalkul Der Verstrickung in Der Literatur Der Moderne

Verstorungsprosa: Das Kalkul Der Verstrickung in Der...

Author: Christoph Kleinschmidt
ISBN: 9783968219080
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Das Paradigma der Verstorung ist ein wirkmachtiges, bisher unerforschtes Kalkul der literarischen Moderne. Anhand...  Read More >>

Othello and the Problem of Knowledge: Reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein

Othello and the Problem of Knowledge: Reading Shakespeare...

Author: Richard Gaskin (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781032424934
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the...  Read More >>

Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture

Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Sandra Dinter ,  Sarah Schäfer-Althaus
ISBN: 9783031170195
Format: Hardback
$310.47

Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture analyses the cultural and literary...  Read More >>

The Companion to 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'

The Companion to 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'

Author: Wendy S. Jacobson
ISBN: 9780367751494
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens’s work, such as current events, social customs,...  Read More >>

The Companion to 'A Tale of Two Cities'

The Companion to 'A Tale of Two Cities'

Author: Andrew Sanders
ISBN: 9780367749712
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale...  Read More >>

Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood: The Story of His Experiments with Truth

Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood:...

Author: Clara Neary
ISBN: 9783031227851
Format: Hardback
$90.54

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New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World: The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond

New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World: The Restoration...

Author: Raf Van Rooy
ISBN: 9789004547872
Format: Paperback
$221.76

This volume is the first to consider in detail the relationships between Classical Latin and Ancient Greek as these...  Read More >>

Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies

Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern...

Author: Alexandra Petrulevich (Uppsala University) ,  Simon Skovgaard Boeck (Society for Danish Language and Literature)
ISBN: 9781641894692
Format: Hardback
$382.80

This volume examines new ways to design, develop, explore, and visualize spatial datasets to investigate spatial...  Read More >>

Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge in the Literary Culture of the English Reformation: Poetry, Public Worship, and Popular Divinity

Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge in the Literary...

Author: Rhema Hokama (Assistant Professor of English literature, Singapore University of Technology and Design)
ISBN: 9780192886552
Format: Hardback
$189.95

Discusses the ways in which post-Reformation devotional practices informed expressions of desire in the poetry of...  Read More >>

Humanism and Good Books in Sixteenth-Century England

Humanism and Good Books in Sixteenth-Century England...

Author: Katherine C. Little (Professor, University of Colorado Boulder)
ISBN: 9780192883193
Format: Hardback
$175.95

Explores the mindset in which people approached reading and writing in the sixteenth century, specifically the idea...  Read More >>

The Companion to 'Bleak House'

The Companion to 'Bleak House'

Author: Susan Shatto
ISBN: 9781032051109
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken. It describes...  Read More >>

Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris

Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris

Author: Emily Kearns (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107041806
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a...  Read More >>

Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero

Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black,...

Author: Chesya Burke
ISBN: 9781978821064
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Storm is the most recognised Black woman comic book character in the world. She is one of the most powerful beings...  Read More >>

Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid

Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid...

Author: Ann C. Colley (State University of New York, Buffalo)
ISBN: 9781009271752
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Adding to Coleridge's already substantial role as a multifaceted intellectual of the Romantic period, Ann Colley...  Read More >>

Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature

Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature...

Author: Edited by Roman Katsman & Maxim D. Shrayer
ISBN: 9798887191881
Format: Hardback
$54.99

This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the...  Read More >>

Bitches in Bonnets: Life Lessons from Jane Austen's Mean Girls

Bitches in Bonnets: Life Lessons from Jane Austen's...

Author: Sarah J. Makowski
ISBN: 9781633888548
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Bitches in Bonnets examines how six novels of quiet English life, penned by parochial Regency spinster Jane Austen,...  Read More >>

Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis

Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa:...

Author: Hervé Anderson Tchumkam
ISBN: 9781793640772
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa sheds light on marginal bodies and the (post)colonial State,...  Read More >>

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