Literary studies: general books

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History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction: Standpoints on Yvonne Owuor’s Writings

History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction:...

Author: Godwin Siundu (University of Nairobi, Kenya)
ISBN: 9781032408255
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book is a collection of essays on Yvonne Owuor’s writings, mainly her most acclaimed novel, Dust as well as...  Read More >>

Atlantic Communities: Translation, Mobility, Hospitality

Atlantic Communities: Translation, Mobility, Hospitality...

Author: María Teresa Caneda-Cabrera (University of Vigo, Spain) ,  Rui Carvalho Homem (University of Porto, Portugal)
ISBN: 9781032407913
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book addresses Atlantic as a global translation zone, created through a myriad of crossings, physical and conceptual,...  Read More >>

Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour: A Playfully Serious Affective Mode

Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour: A Playfully Serious...

Author: Alexandra Effe (University of Oslo, Norway) ,  Arnaud Schmitt (University of Bordeaux, France)
ISBN: 9781032411064
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book depicts that autofictional texts often make use of humour and play in a productive and meaningful way,...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028672199
Format: Hardback
$1356.96

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028672335
Format: Hardback
$1356.96

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Nineteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028671864
Format: Hardback
$1356.96

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

Evocations Et Incantations Dans La Tragedie Grecque

Evocations Et Incantations Dans La Tragedie Grecque...

Author: Roland Barthes ,  Claude Coste
ISBN: 9782406141679
Format: Paperback
$76.56

In 1941, Roland Barthes defended his Diplome d'etudes superieures at the Sorbonne University under the direction...  Read More >>

Malraux Vu Du Japon: Roman, Essai Et Arts

Malraux Vu Du Japon: Roman, Essai Et Arts

Author: Ayako Hata ,  Atsuko Nagai
ISBN: 9782406133537
Format: Paperback
$84.48

We study here the thought that Malraux's work conveys, between modernism, tragic humanism and political intervention,...  Read More >>

Revue Europeenne de Recherches Sur La Poesie

Revue Europeenne de Recherches Sur La Poesie

Author: Classiques Garnier
ISBN: 9782406145660
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Contributeurs: Olfa Abrougui, Lino Angiuli, Jean Balsamo, Beatrice Bonhomme, Rene Corona, Etienne Crosnier, Giovanna...  Read More >>

Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence

Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and...

Author: Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
ISBN: 9781032278568
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores...  Read More >>

Why Read the Classics?

Why Read the Classics?

Author: Italo Calvino ,  Martin McLaughlin
ISBN: 9798212514125
Format: Audio
$136.62

A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating...  Read More >>

Why Read the Classics?

Why Read the Classics?

Author: Italo Calvino ,  Martin McLaughlin
ISBN: 9798212514132
Format: Audio
$136.62

A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating...  Read More >>

Fra Gli Invidiosi: Nuovi Saggi Su Dante

Fra Gli Invidiosi: Nuovi Saggi Su Dante

Author: Gennaro Sasso
ISBN: 9791254690277
Format: Paperback
$134.64

Sotto il titolo di uno di essi, Fra gli invidiosi, questo volume presenta una raccolta di saggi inediti nei quali...  Read More >>

Writing in Times of Displacement: The Existential and Other Discourses

Writing in Times of Displacement: The Existential and...

Author: Mbuh Tennu Mbuh ,  Meera Chakravorty (Jain University, Bangalore, India)
ISBN: 9781032198491
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people...  Read More >>

Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence

Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and...

Author: Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
ISBN: 9781032210919
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores...  Read More >>

Evocations Et Incantations Dans La Tragedie Grecque

Evocations Et Incantations Dans La Tragedie Grecque...

Author: Roland Barthes ,  Claude Coste
ISBN: 9782406141686
Format: Hardback
$227.04

In 1941, Roland Barthes defended his Diplome d'etudes superieures at the Sorbonne University under the direction...  Read More >>

Malraux Vu Du Japon: Roman, Essai Et Arts

Malraux Vu Du Japon: Roman, Essai Et Arts

Author: Ayako Hata ,  Atsuko Nagai
ISBN: 9782406133544
Format: Hardback
$232.32

We study here the thought that Malraux's work conveys, between modernism, tragic humanism and political intervention,...  Read More >>

The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity in Six American Novels

The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity...

Author: Jeff Morgan
ISBN: 9781476685656
Format: Paperback
$77.00

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Walt Whitman: A Companion

Walt Whitman: A Companion

Author: John E. Schwiebert
ISBN: 9781476676586
Format: Paperback
$80.30

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The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery

The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery...

Author: Laura Murphy (Sheffield Hallam University)
ISBN: 9781009068918
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This Companion provides original scholarly arguments about some of the most trenchant themes that arise in the literatures...  Read More >>

Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity

Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel...

Author: Jeremiah Coogan (Assistant Professor of New Testament, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University)
ISBN: 9780197580042
Format: Hardback
$233.00

Eusebius the Evangelist analyzes Eusebius of Caesarea's fourth-century reconfiguration of the Gospels as a window...  Read More >>

The Ultimate Italian: Dante and a Nation’s Identity

The Ultimate Italian: Dante and a Nation’s Identity...

Author: Fulvio Conti
ISBN: 9781032390895
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book shows how Dante Alighieri has been represented in the Italian collective imagination from the late eighteenth...  Read More >>

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Companion

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Companion

Author: Prentiss Clark
ISBN: 9781476677606
Format: Paperback
$80.30

In his 1837 speech ‘The American Scholar’, Ralph Waldo Emerson noted """"life is our dictionary,"""" encapsulating...  Read More >>

Werke: Abteilung II: Ausgewahlte Dramen Und Epen

Werke: Abteilung II: Ausgewahlte Dramen Und Epen

Author: Friedrich de la Motte Fouque ,  Christoph F Lorenz
ISBN: 9783487163543
Format: Hardback
$522.72

Obwohl das umfangreiche Werk Friedrich Fouques sich immer international gebardet, nach Norddeutschland geht, aber...  Read More >>

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