Literary studies: general books

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The Folktales of Palestine: Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling

The Folktales of Palestine: Cultural Identity, Memory...

Author: Farah Aboubakr (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9780755650996
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Folktales are instrumental in ensuring the survival of oral traditions and strengthening communal bonds. Both the...  Read More >>

White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture

White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book...

Author: Alexandra Dane (University of Melbourne)
ISBN: 9781009234245
Format: Paperback
$32.32

Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the historic...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat

Author: Professor Jana Evans Braziel (Miami University, Ohio, USA) ,  Professor Nadège T. Clitandre (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
ISBN: 9781350210653
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Edwidge Danticat’s prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st-century...  Read More >>

Modern Tragedy

Modern Tragedy

Author: James Moran ,  Mr Simon Shepherd
ISBN: 9781350139770
Format: Paperback
$29.99

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social...  Read More >>

Repressio - Resilio

Repressio - Resilio

Author: Internationale Thesauruskommission
ISBN: 9783110728484
Format: Paperback
$213.81

Der Thesaurus linguae Latinae ist nicht nur das größte lateinische Wörterbuch der Welt, sondern zugleich das erste,...  Read More >>

Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America

Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish...

Author: Matthew Goldmark
ISBN: 9780813949376
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing

Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing...

Author: Neil Ramsey (UNSW, Canberra)
ISBN: 9781009100441
Format: Hardback
$219.94

In this book, Neil Ramsey examines the intellectual contexts of the period in which modern war writing first took...  Read More >>

Health Humanities in Application

Health Humanities in Application

Author: Christian Riegel ,  Katherine M. Robinson
ISBN: 9783031083594
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This book focuses on health humanities in application. The field reflects many intellectual interests and practical...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Global Sonnets: Translation, Appropriation, Performance

Shakespeare’s Global Sonnets: Translation, Appropriation,...

Author: Jane Kingsley-Smith ,  W. Reginald Rampone Jr.
ISBN: 9783031094712
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This edited collection brings together scholars from across the world, including France, Italy, Germany, Hungary,...  Read More >>

King Lear: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

King Lear: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

Author: Kevin J. Donovan ,  Joseph Candido
ISBN: 9781350128415
Format: Hardback
$300.00

This volume documents the reception and interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear by critics, editors and...  Read More >>

Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction

Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction

Author: Dr. Margot Singer (Denison University, USA) ,  Dr. Nicole Walker (Northern Arizona University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501386077
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""The expanded new edition of this influential collection of creative nonfiction for advanced writers and students...  Read More >>

(Im)politeness in McEwan’s Fiction: Literary Pragma-Stylistics

(Im)politeness in McEwan’s Fiction: Literary Pragma-Stylistics...

Author: Urszula Kizelbach
ISBN: 9783031186899
Format: Hardback
$258.72

(Im)politeness is investigated on two levels of analysis: the level of the plot and the story world (intradiegetic...  Read More >>

Modern Tragedy

Modern Tragedy

Author: James Moran ,  Mr Simon Shepherd
ISBN: 9781350139787
Format: Hardback
$90.00

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Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi: Cultivating Linguistic Diversity in an Australian Community

Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi: Cultivating Linguistic...

Author: Ruth Singer
ISBN: 9781032155012
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern...  Read More >>

Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration

Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning...

Author: Liam E. Semler (University of Sydney) ,  Claire Hansen (Australian National University, Canberra)
ISBN: 9781108478670
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This book is for everyone interested in Shakespeare education and collaborative pedagogy in the twenty-first century....  Read More >>

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health

Author: Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (SSHRC-CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in English, SSHRC-CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in English, University of Alberta)
ISBN: 9780192889492
Format: Hardback
$202.95

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse,...  Read More >>

Douglas Hyde: Irish Ideology and International Impact

Douglas Hyde: Irish Ideology and International Impact...

Author: Liam Mac Mathuna
ISBN: 9780901510952
Format: Paperback
$64.69

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Dream Story

Dream Story

Author: Arthur Schnitzler ,  Frederic Raphael
ISBN: 9780241620229
Format: Hardback
$22.99

This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless...  Read More >>

De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators

De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to...

Author: Lynne Bowker
ISBN: 9781032109244
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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Montaigne in Barn Boots

Montaigne in Barn Boots

Author: Michael Perry
ISBN: 9780062230577
Format: Paperback
$42.21

The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he's learned from his unlikely...  Read More >>

Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction between the First and Second World Wars

Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction...

Author: Jane Custance Baker
ISBN: 9781350240308
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected...  Read More >>

Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy

Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy

Author: Dr Dimitra Fimi (Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Dr Alistair J. P. Sims (Independent Scholar and bookseller, Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9781350349995
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Focusing on representations of Celtic motifs and traditions in post-1980s adult fantasy literature, this book illuminates...  Read More >>

De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators

De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to...

Author: Lynne Bowker
ISBN: 9781032109220
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature

Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology,...

Author: Brett Brehm
ISBN: 9781531501495
Format: Paperback
$66.00

What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic...  Read More >>

Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England

Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later...

Author: Ingrid Nelson
ISBN: 9781512824803
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues that the lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined...  Read More >>

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