Literary studies: general books

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Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel

Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel

Author: Ewa Szary-Matywiecka ,  Magdalena Ozarska
ISBN: 9788024645322
Format: Paperback
$32.95

In this book-length study, Ewa Szary-Matywiecka examines Maria Wirtemberska’s Malvina, or the Heart’s Intuition,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada

The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in...

Author: Linda M. Morra (Bishop’s University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367562199
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures...  Read More >>

Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature

Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of...

Author: Giovanni Fanfani ,  Mary Harlow
ISBN: 9781789259865
Format: Paperback
$130.00

Major series of studies exploring the use of ancient textiles and clothing as literary devices in the Greek and...  Read More >>

Die Berner Trilogie: Erstedition Und Kommentar

Die Berner Trilogie: Erstedition Und Kommentar

Author: Lina Matzke ,  Bjorn Reich
ISBN: 9783757400897
Format: Hardback
$192.72

Die Berner Trilogie ist ein ausserordentliches Beispiel des reformierten geistlichen Spiels; ihre Edition liefert...  Read More >>

Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of Mourning

Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of Mourning

Author: Adele Bardazzi
ISBN: 9781800792159
Format: Paperback
$116.44

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Forms and Uses of Argument: Transdisciplinary Aspects of Figurative Language: from Aesthetics to Neuroscience

Forms and Uses of Argument: Transdisciplinary Aspects...

Author: Stefano Calabrese ,  Annamaria Contini
ISBN: 9783631889220
Format: Hardback
$80.21

The volume is the result of transdisciplinary studies carried out by professors and researchers working at the University...  Read More >>

Writers at War: Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden

Writers at War: Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford,...

Author: Isabelle Brasme
ISBN: 9781032219660
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture

Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American...

Author: Caleb Smith
ISBN: 9780691214771
Format: Hardback
$49.99

"How nineteenth-century ""disciplines of attention"" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being...  Read More >>

Searching for Japan: 20th Century Italy’s Fascination with Japanese Culture

Searching for Japan: 20th Century Italy’s Fascination...

Author: Michele Monserrati (Williams College (United States))
ISBN: 9781802078077
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience...  Read More >>

John Arderon’s De judiciis urinarum: A Middle English Commentary on Giles of Corbeil’s Carmen de urinis in Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 328 and Manchester University Library, MS Rylands Eng. 1310

John Arderon’s De judiciis urinarum: A Middle English...

Author: Javier Calle-Martin (Departamento de Filologia Inglesa, University of Malaga (Spain))
ISBN: 9781802078350
Format: Paperback
$121.41

A synoptic edition of the English version of John Arderon’s De judiciis urinarum containing the commentary on Giles...  Read More >>

Speculative Epistemologies: An Eccentric Account of SF from the 1960s to the Present

Speculative Epistemologies: An Eccentric Account of...

Author: John Rieder
ISBN: 9781802077810
Format: Paperback
$126.69

Combining the methods of genre theory, reception theory, and the sociology of cultural production, the readings...  Read More >>

Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature

Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of...

Author: Peter Leman
ISBN: 9781802078060
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear...  Read More >>

Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold

Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works...

Author: Regina Yung Lee ,  Una McCormack
ISBN: 9781802078374
Format: Paperback
$145.17

The fourteen essays collected here provide wide-ranging scholarly analysesof Bujold’s work and worlds so far, covering...  Read More >>

Material Transgressions: Beyond Romantic Bodies, Genders, Things

Material Transgressions: Beyond Romantic Bodies, Genders,...

Author: Kate Singer ,  Ashley Cross
ISBN: 9781802078367
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Theyenact processes – assemblages, ghost dances, pack mentality, reiterative writing,shapeshifting, multi-voiced...  Read More >>

Richard Rolle: On Lamentations: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary

Richard Rolle: On Lamentations: A Critical Edition with...

Author: Michael Van Dussen
ISBN: 9781802078299
Format: Paperback
$131.97

The first study, critical edition, and translation of one of the earliest works by the hermit and mystic Richard...  Read More >>

Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974

Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life,...

Author: Dianne C. Luce
ISBN: 9781643363554
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Devotees of Cormac McCarthy’s novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of...  Read More >>

Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles: Contesting the Road in American Science Fiction

Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles: Contesting the Road...

Author: Jeremy Withers (Department of English, Iowa State University (United States))
ISBN: 9781802078343
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Given the extensive influence of the 'transport revolution' on the past two centuries (a time when trains, trams,...  Read More >>

How Dark Is My Flower: Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love

How Dark Is My Flower: Yosano Akiko and the Invention...

Author: Leith Morton
ISBN: 9780472055753
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Emphasizes the astonishing innovations in diction and style, not to mention content, in Yosano Akiko’s work that...  Read More >>

Liberty or Justice for All?: A Conversation Across the American Centuries

Liberty or Justice for All?: A Conversation Across the...

Author: Philip F. Gura
ISBN: 9780820363110
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A riveting story of faith, politics, and ideas, this volume brings to life four of America’s greatest thinkers,...  Read More >>

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval...

Author: Sara Petrosillo
ISBN: 9780814215487
Format: Hardback
$243.10

Uniting feminist, formalist, and material historical approaches, explores how symbolic and literal hawking women...  Read More >>

Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People

Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized...

Author: Elan Justice Pavlinich
ISBN: 9781032232058
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Erotic displays of marginalized people in medieval contexts, such as Santiago García and David Rubín’s Beowulf,...  Read More >>

The History of Alfred of Beverley

The History of Alfred of Beverley

Author: John Slevin ,  Lynda Lockyer
ISBN: 9781783274888
Format: Hardback
$284.63

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