Literary studies: general books

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Saying All That Can Be Said: The Art of Describing Sex in Jin Ping Mei

Saying All That Can Be Said: The Art of Describing Sex...

Author: Keith McMahon
ISBN: 9780674291355
Format: Hardback
$105.95

In Saying All That Can Be Said, Keith McMahon presents the first full analysis of the sexually explicit portrayals...  Read More >>

Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms

Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts,...

Author: Richard Alan Barlow (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University)
ISBN: 9780192859181
Format: Hardback
$175.95

Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms explores the ways Irish and Scottish literatures...  Read More >>

The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts

The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts

Author: Donatella Montini ,  Irene Ranzato (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
ISBN: 9781032008929
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This collection brings together perspectives on regional and social varieties of British English in fictional dialogue...  Read More >>

Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century

Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's...

Author: Jacqueline M Burek
ISBN: 9781914049101
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A survey of the different literary forms adopted by history writers after the Conquest, exploring why and for what...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form

Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form

Author: Jonathan P. A. Sell
ISBN: 9781032018157
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language...

Author: Jonathan P. A. Sell
ISBN: 9781032017952
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Céline Arnauld: From Dada to Ultra-Modern

The Poetry of Céline Arnauld: From Dada to Ultra-Modern...

Author: Ruth Hemus
ISBN: 9781781888322
Format: Paperback
$39.57

The poet Céline Arnauld (1885-1952) was at the heart of Paris Dada. Her experimental texts appeared in the most...  Read More >>

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Author: Jolene Zigarovich
ISBN: 9781512823776
Format: Hardback
$171.47

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities

Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities...

Author: Shane Chalmers (Law School, University of Melbourne) ,  Sundhya Pahuja (Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367773458
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This handbook brings together 40 of the world’s leading scholars and rising stars who study international law from...  Read More >>

Geomythology: How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events

Geomythology: How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events...

Author: Timothy J. Burbery
ISBN: 9780367711092
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Geomythology provides an accessible, engaging overview of this hybrid discipline. The book thus constitutes a valuable...  Read More >>

Literature and Society: Essays and Arguments

Literature and Society: Essays and Arguments

Author: Mark Falcoff
ISBN: 9798986119076
Format: Paperback
$47.49

It was W. Somerset Maugham who once said, I do not know how critics write novels; I know how novelists write them....  Read More >>

Million dollar habit: How to Get Everything You Want in Life in 20 Easy Steps by Brian tracy

Million dollar habit: How to Get Everything You Want...

Author: Israel Leo
ISBN: 9798376527658
Format: Paperback
$26.37

This book explores the routines of successful people. The top business executives' behaviors have been researched...  Read More >>

Collected Essays on the Gospel According to Mark

Collected Essays on the Gospel According to Mark

Author: Adela Yarbro Collins
ISBN: 9783161615887
Format: Hardback
$314.90

This volume presents essays by Adela Yarbro Collins on the Gospel of Mark originally published between 1993 and...  Read More >>

Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System

Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the...

Author: Morgan Day Frank (Lecturer, History and Literature, Lecturer, History and Literature, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780192867506
Format: Hardback
$205.95

Throughout history, American literature has provided an escape from the classroom; yet authors like Twain, Melville,...  Read More >>

Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England

Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England...

Author: David K Coley
ISBN: 9780814255223
Format: Paperback
$85.26

Shows how English responses to the Black Death were hidden in plain sight--as seen in the Pearl, Cleanness, Patience,...  Read More >>

Joyce Studies Annual 2022

Joyce Studies Annual 2022

Author: Moshe Gold ,  Keri Walsh
ISBN: 9781531502430
Format: Hardback
$171.60

An indispensable resource for scholars and students of James Joyce, Joyce Studies Annual gathers essays by foremost...  Read More >>

Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the...

Author: Stefanie Sch fer
ISBN: 9781474477451
Format: Paperback
$67.25

A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and culture...  Read More >>

The Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 1: Underground to Otherground

The Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 1: Underground...

Author: Kenneth White ,  Cairns Craig
ISBN: 9781399511124
Format: Paperback
$67.25

These three books reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical and exhilarating figures in modern literature....  Read More >>

Elizabeth Robins Pennell: Critical Essays

Elizabeth Robins Pennell: Critical Essays

Author: Dave Buchanan ,  Kimberly Morse Jones
ISBN: 9781474475372
Format: Paperback
$67.25

An edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American-born, London-based...  Read More >>

Virgil'S English Translators: Civil Wars to Restoration

Virgil'S English Translators: Civil Wars to Restoration...

Author: Ian Calvert
ISBN: 9781474475655
Format: Paperback
$54.31

Analyses the translations of the Eclogues, Georgics and the Aeneid to reflect the cultural influence of Virgil over...  Read More >>

Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film

Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film...

Author: Robbie Moore
ISBN: 9781474456661
Format: Paperback
$54.31

Hotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern fiction and film....  Read More >>

Thomas De Quincey, Dark Interpreter: Romanticism in Translation

Thomas De Quincey, Dark Interpreter: Romanticism in...

Author: Brecht de Groote
ISBN: 9781474483902
Format: Paperback
$54.31

This book investigates how De Quincey's writing was shaped by his work as a translator.  Read More >>

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