Literary studies: general books

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The Breakfast Club for 40-Somethings: A Novel Approach to Unlearning Money and Reinventing Your Life

The Breakfast Club for 40-Somethings: A Novel Approach...

Author: Jenifer Ray
ISBN: 9798378420384
Format: Paperback
$21.09

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Collective illusions: Conformity, complicity, and the science of way we make bad decision

Collective illusions: Conformity, complicity, and the...

Author: Alex Carr
ISBN: 9798378409310
Format: Paperback
$18.45

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Mort Et Resurrection de la Pleiade

Mort Et Resurrection de la Pleiade

Author: James Dauphine ,  Guy Demerson
ISBN: 9782812452680
Format: Hardback
$369.60

"Why was Pierre de Ronsard, ""prince of poets"" in his time, so violently decried, before becoming once again the...  Read More >>

Montaigne Et Marie de Gournay

Montaigne Et Marie de Gournay

Author: Marcel Tetel
ISBN: 9782812457500
Format: Hardback
$256.08

The contributions in this volume have helped to renew the study of Marie de Gournay's work. As well as the dialogue...  Read More >>

Pourparlers

Pourparlers

Author: Etienne Pasquier ,  Beatrice Perigot
ISBN: 9782812453694
Format: Hardback
$319.44

In these three dialogues midway between play and treatise, Etienne Pasquier applies a humanist critique to the exercise...  Read More >>

La Poetique de la Pleiade: Etude Sur La Pensee Et La Terminologie Du Xvie Siecle

La Poetique de la Pleiade: Etude Sur La Pensee Et La...

Author: Grahame Castor ,  Yvonne Bellenger
ISBN: 9782812454639
Format: Hardback
$266.64

Published in Cambridge in 1964, this study helped to transform the way we view Renaissance poetry. The author examines...  Read More >>

Women, Theology and Evangelical Children’s Literature, 1780-1900

Women, Theology and Evangelical Children’s Literature,...

Author: Irene Euphemia Smale
ISBN: 9783031190278
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book provides a wealth of fascinating information about many significant and lesser-known nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Uncle Silas

Uncle Silas

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN: 9780198864356
Format: Paperback
$25.95

A young heiress finds herself caught in the sinister plots of her mysterious Uncle Silas. A new edition of Le Fanu's...  Read More >>

The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art

The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in...

Author: Dr Andy Brown ,  Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia Canada)
ISBN: 9781350327283
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory

Author: Sujata Iyengar ,  Dr Evelyn Gajowski
ISBN: 9781350073579
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory...  Read More >>

Plautus: Trinummus

Plautus: Trinummus

Author: Seth A. Jeppesen (Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Brigham Young University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350126770
Format: Paperback
$36.99

In this first introduction to Plautus’ Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided through the themes,...  Read More >>

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Nigerian World

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Nimi Wariboko (Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics, Boston University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501398070
Format: Paperback
$36.99

"""Using cutting-edge philosophical analyses, this book highlights Nigerian literature's contributions to moral...  Read More >>

Aristophanes: Lysistrata

Aristophanes: Lysistrata

Author: James Robson
ISBN: 9781350090309
Format: Paperback
$40.99

Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes’ comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves...  Read More >>

British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830

British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830

Author: Kristin M. Girten ,  Aaron R. Hanlon
ISBN: 9781684483969
Format: Hardback
$396.00

British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two...  Read More >>

Mayaya Rising: Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture

Mayaya Rising: Black Female Icons in Latin American...

Author: Dawn Duke
ISBN: 9781684484393
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This work of restorative scholarship centers and honors Afro-Latin American heroines present in the work of Cuban,...  Read More >>

Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives

Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama: Reception and...

Author: Amy Garnai
ISBN: 9781684484447
Format: Hardback
$396.00

A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft...  Read More >>

Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic

Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic...

Author: Shiamin Kwa
ISBN: 9781978826533
Format: Hardback
$192.59

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The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long...

Author: Heidi Schlipphacke
ISBN: 9781684484546
Format: Hardback
$396.00

By focusing on kinship constellations instead of ‘family plots’ in seminal literary works of the period, this book...  Read More >>

The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction

The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected...

Author: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780141394923
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An ingenious exploration of the meaning of literature, from one of Italy's most beloved writers 'If the world is...  Read More >>

My Language Is a Jealous Lover

My Language Is a Jealous Lover

Author: Adrián N. Bravi ,  Victoria Offredi Poletto
ISBN: 9781978834590
Format: Hardback
$166.19

Explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue. Discussing...  Read More >>

A History of World War One Poetry

A History of World War One Poetry

Author: Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes University)
ISBN: 9781009100649
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Situating First World War poetry in a truly global context, this book reaches beyond the British soldier-poet canon...  Read More >>

Camus's The Plague: Philosophical Perspectives

Camus's The Plague: Philosophical Perspectives

Author: Peg Brand Weiser (Laureate Professor and Research Professor of Philosophy, Laureate Professor and Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona)
ISBN: 9780197599327
Format: Hardback
$216.00

This collection of original essays on philosophical themes in Albert Camus's The Plague is of special relevance...  Read More >>

James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer

James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer

Author: Michael Snyder (Assistant Teaching Professor, Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Oklahoma)
ISBN: 9780197609729
Format: Hardback
$80.95

This is the first biography of a gay American novelist, story writer, and playwright who in the early 1960s was...  Read More >>

The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art

The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in...

Author: Dr Andy Brown ,  Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia Canada)
ISBN: 9781350327290
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times,...  Read More >>

Derrida's Marrano Passover: Exile, Survival, Betrayal, and the Metaphysics of Non-Identity

Derrida's Marrano Passover: Exile, Survival, Betrayal,...

Author: Agata Bielik-Robson (University of Nottingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781501392610
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""The first book devoted to Derrida's Marranism - his paradoxical 'non-Jewish Jewishness' - connecting it to the...  Read More >>

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