Literary studies: general books

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Plautus: Trinummus

Plautus: Trinummus

Author: Seth A. Jeppesen (Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Brigham Young University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350126763
Format: Hardback
$110.00

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: 9781501398087
Format: Hardback
$120.00

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

Aristophanes: Lysistrata

Aristophanes: Lysistrata

Author: James Robson
ISBN: 9781350090316
Format: Hardback
$110.00

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

Polish Literature as World Literature

Polish Literature as World Literature

Author: Dr. Piotr Florczyk (University of Washington, USA) ,  Dr. K. A. Wisniewski (American Antiquarian Society, USA)
ISBN: 9781501387104
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""Provides an overview of Polish authors and works from the 16th century to today, highlighting their contributions...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory

Author: Sujata Iyengar ,  Dr Evelyn Gajowski
ISBN: 9781350073586
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel: A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision

Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel: A Philosophical...

Author: Dr Ryan S. Kemp ,  Dr Jordan Rodgers
ISBN: 9781350106956
Format: Hardback
$170.00

In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully...  Read More >>

Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity

Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity

Author: Dr Maria Gerolemou (adjunct lecturer, University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350077591
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Technical automation – the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously – is not just...  Read More >>

The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Perspectives on Culture, Performance and Identity

The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama:...

Author: Michelle M. Dowd ,  Tom Rutter
ISBN: 9781350161856
Format: Hardback
$260.00

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare?...  Read More >>

Taiwanese Literature as World Literature

Taiwanese Literature as World Literature

Author: Professor or Dr. Pei-yin Lin (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) ,  Wen-chi Li (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781501381348
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""Explores the richness of 20th-century Taiwanese literature as multilingual and diverse-styled world literature,...  Read More >>

Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History

Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury:...

Author: Jesse Wolfe (California State University Stanislaus, USA)
ISBN: 9781350328822
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group’s cutting-edge thinkers—Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E. M. Forster—understood...  Read More >>

Ekphrasis, Memory and Narrative after Proust: Prose Pictures and Fictional Recollection

Ekphrasis, Memory and Narrative after Proust: Prose...

Author: Leonid Bilmes
ISBN: 9781350336834
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel. Drawing on À la recherche du temps...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison

Author: Kelly Reames ,  Prof Linda Wagner-Martin
ISBN: 9781350239920
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book...  Read More >>

History of the Arabic Written Tradition Volume 2

History of the Arabic Written Tradition Volume 2

Author: Carl Brockelmann ,  Joep Lameer
ISBN: 9789004544338
Format: Paperback
$182.16

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SYNOPSIS OF And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh

SYNOPSIS OF And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by...

Author: Israel D Vibes
ISBN: 9798376826027
Format: Paperback
$29.01

THIS IS NOT A BOOK BY HENRY MARSH, NOR IS IT AFFILIATED WITH HIM . IT IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION BY ISRAEL D...  Read More >>

Embodying Difference: Critical Phenomenology and Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexuality

Embodying Difference: Critical Phenomenology and Narratives...

Author: Simon Dickel
ISBN: 9783030901097
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Murphy’s The Body Silent, Simi Linton’s My Body Politic, Rod Michalko’s The Two-in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking...  Read More >>

Prophetic Futures

Prophetic Futures

Author: Joseph Bowling ,  Katherine Walker
ISBN: 9783031185182
Format: Hardback
$258.72

The language, texts, and bodies of prophecy challenge commonplaces about a disenchanted modernity and point the...  Read More >>

History of the Arabic Written Tradition Volume 1

History of the Arabic Written Tradition Volume 1

Author: Carl Brockelmann ,  Joep Lameer
ISBN: 9789004544321
Format: Paperback
$182.16

The present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur...  Read More >>

Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature

Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American...

Author: Trudier Harris
ISBN: 9780817360177
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr’s character and persona in works of African American literature...  Read More >>

Fairy Tales of Appalachia

Fairy Tales of Appalachia

Author: Stacy Sivinski
ISBN: 9781621907626
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Twentieth-Century Sephardic Authors from the Former Yugoslavia: A Judeo-Spanish Tradition

Twentieth-Century Sephardic Authors from the Former...

Author: Zeljko Jovanovic
ISBN: 9781781888520
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 2015.  Read More >>

Louis-René des Forêts and Inner Autobiography

Louis-René des Forêts and Inner Autobiography

Author: Ian MacLachlan
ISBN: 9781781889367
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Louis-René des Forêts (1916-2000) devoted the last twenty-five years of his writing life to an innovative practice...  Read More >>

Zola and the Art of Television: Adaptation, Recreation, Translation

Zola and the Art of Television: Adaptation, Recreation,...

Author: Kate Griffiths
ISBN: 9781781884027
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Émile Zola (1840-1902) has become one of the most adapted authors of all time, but while much has been made of his...  Read More >>

Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry's On Abstinence

Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives...

Author: Cecilia Muratori
ISBN: 9781781883419
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Should a philosopher be vegetarian? This question had been famously answered in the affirmative in a classic work...  Read More >>

The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France

The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Steven Wilson
ISBN: 9781781885642
Format: Paperback
$39.57

While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention...  Read More >>

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