Literary studies: general books

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The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature

The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature...

Author: Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge) ,  Emma Greensmith (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009478243
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Explores how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented within the poetry of ancient Greece. This revised...  Read More >>

Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

Author: Demetrio S. Yocum ,  Francesco Petrarca
ISBN: 9780268207847
Format: Hardback
$198.00

The first English translation of Petrarch’s Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions...  Read More >>

Handbook of American Poetry

Handbook of American Poetry

Author: Sabine Sielke
ISBN: 9783110592368
Format: Hardback
$712.80

This series has been designed to offer students and researchers a compact means of orientation in their study of...  Read More >>

Dante and His Circle: Education, Script and Image

Dante and His Circle: Education, Script and Image

Author: Julia Bolton Holloway
ISBN: 9783031440922
Format: Hardback
$343.17

In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments...  Read More >>

Spectral Spain: Haunted Houses, Silent Spaces and Traumatic Memories in Post-Franco Gothic Fiction

Spectral Spain: Haunted Houses, Silent Spaces and Traumatic...

Author: Heidi Backes
ISBN: 9781837721269
Format: Hardback
$157.95

An analysis of texts representing multiple regional cultures within Spain while examining the Gothic haunting motif...  Read More >>

The Prosimetrum of the Íslendingasögur: Aesthetic and Narrative Effects

The Prosimetrum of the Íslendingasögur: Aesthetic and...

Author: Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir ,  Stefanie Gropper
ISBN: 9783111271804
Format: Hardback
$261.33

Verse quotation is intrinsic to the literary style of the medieval Icelandic corpus of Íslendingasögur (sagas of...  Read More >>

Emilio Salgari: The Tiger Is Still Alive!

Emilio Salgari: The Tiger Is Still Alive!

Author: Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato
ISBN: 9781683934080
Format: Hardback
$245.00

In the first complete study to be published in English, author Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato defines Emilio Salgari...  Read More >>

Untersuchungen Zur Komik Im >Plutos

Untersuchungen Zur Komik Im >Plutos

Author: Hauke Schneider
ISBN: 9783111390680
Format: Hardback
$348.45

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Greco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination of Virginia’s Tidewater Region, 1607–1826: The Empire of the Mind

Greco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination...

Author: Benjamin Stephen Haller
ISBN: 9781793643278
Format: Hardback
$228.00

This book explores the influence of classical Greek and Latin literature on the early settlers and residents of...  Read More >>

A History of Arabic Literature

A History of Arabic Literature

Author: Krishna Chaitanya
ISBN: 9788119953424
Format: Hardback
$108.65

It covers poetry, religious thought, philosoph­ical currents and mystical tradition, the great contribution made...  Read More >>

Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Sleep

Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural...

Author: Paul Huebener
ISBN: 9780228020394
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Cultural visions of sleep circulate through such diverse forms as mattress ads, billboards, comic books, memoirs,...  Read More >>

Nietzsche as Stylist: Aesthetics and Philosophy

Nietzsche as Stylist: Aesthetics and Philosophy

Author: Martine Béland
ISBN: 9780228021117
Format: Paperback
$102.83

Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in seventeen years. Nietzsche as Stylist traces...  Read More >>

What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal

What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of...

Author: Susie O’Brien
ISBN: 9780228021346
Format: Paperback
$92.27

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination...  Read More >>

Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Ros Ballaster
ISBN: 9781837651276
Format: Paperback
$69.84

"An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of ""presence"" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth...  Read More >>

L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon: A Children's Classic at 100

L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon: A Children's Classic...

Author: Yan Du ,  Joe Sutliff Sanders
ISBN: 9781496852496
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Despite being overshadowed by the immense popularity of Anne of Green Gables, the Emily of New Moon trilogy has...  Read More >>

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Author: Ursula Kluwick
ISBN: 9780813950983
Format: Paperback
$92.40

In the nineteenth century, water left its traces on politics, urban reform, societal divisions, and conceptualizations...  Read More >>

Handschrift - Texttypologie - Literaturgeschichte: Die Kleineren Mittelhochdeutschen Reimpaardichtungen Des 13. Jahrhunderts Und Der Wiener Stricker-Codex 2705

Handschrift - Texttypologie - Literaturgeschichte: Die...

Author: Franz-Josef Holznagel
ISBN: 9783110250701
Format: Hardback
$665.28

"Smaller Middle High German rhyming couplets (b�spel, speeches, verse narratives) represent significant innovations...  Read More >>

Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth...

Author: Daniel Orrells
ISBN: 9781350407763
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals...  Read More >>

The Health Humanities in German Studies

The Health Humanities in German Studies

Author: Stephanie M. Hilger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
ISBN: 9781350296183
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features...  Read More >>

The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature

The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature...

Author: Erin K. Wagner
ISBN: 9781501519239
Format: Hardback
$300.93

The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature examines the superfluity of synonyms for heretic which...  Read More >>

Digital Papyrology III: The digital critical edition of Greek papyri: issues, projects, and perspectives

Digital Papyrology III: The digital critical edition...

Author: Nicola Reggiani
ISBN: 9783111070131
Format: Hardback
$335.25

In the ever-growing and evolving field of Digital Papyrology – intending both the set of electronic tools for papyrological...  Read More >>

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