Literary studies: general books

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"Lewis Carroll's ""Alice"" and Cognitive Narratology": Author, Reader and Characters

"Lewis Carroll's ""Alice"" and Cognitive Narratology":...

Author: Francesca Arnavas
ISBN: 9783111104065
Format: Paperback
$34.23

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Before Photography: German Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Before Photography: German Visual Culture in the Nineteenth...

Author: Kirsten Belgum ,  Vance Byrd
ISBN: 9783111104584
Format: Paperback
$42.81

The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of new technologies, devices, and print processes that provided...  Read More >>

Levinas and Literature: New Directions

Levinas and Literature: New Directions

Author: Michael Fagenblat ,  Arthur Cools
ISBN: 9783111088426
Format: Paperback
$34.23

The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas's wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford...  Read More >>

Narrating and Constructing the Beach: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Narrating and Constructing the Beach: An Interdisciplinary...

Author: Carina Breidenbach ,  Tamara Fröhler
ISBN: 9783111125473
Format: Paperback
$42.81

Migration, climate change, mass tourism and burkini controversies expose the beach as a focal point for numerous...  Read More >>

Subject, Definition, Activity: Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul

Subject, Definition, Activity: Framing Avicenna's Science...

Author: Tommaso Alpina
ISBN: 9783111109244
Format: Paperback
$34.23

"The Kitāb al-Madḫal (""Book of the Isagoge"") is crucial for anyone who aims to fully understand Avicenna's (d....  Read More >>

Gender Bonds, Gender Binds: Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German Literature

Gender Bonds, Gender Binds: Women, Men, and Family in...

Author: Sara S. Poor ,  Alison L. Beringer
ISBN: 9783111121796
Format: Paperback
$34.23

"""Gender Bonds, Gender Binds"" is a collection of essays honoring Ann Marie Rasmussen. Taking inspiration from...  Read More >>

Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in ›De rerum natura‹

Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in ›De...

Author: George Kazantzidis
ISBN: 9783111116648
Format: Paperback
$34.23

The present book challenges the standard scholarly view according to which disease (morbus) in the De rerum natura...  Read More >>

Poetics of Redemption: Dante’s Divine Comedy

Poetics of Redemption: Dante’s Divine Comedy

Author: Andreas Kablitz
ISBN: 9783111088907
Format: Paperback
$34.23

As the title suggests, the essays on Dante collected in this volume interpret his Commedia as the attempt of a renewal...  Read More >>

Jean Calvin: Des Scandales

Jean Calvin: Des Scandales

Author: Dr Laila Fares
ISBN: 9798374131482
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Sans doute, l'oeuvre entiere de Calvin est une contribution a l'esprit de la Renaissance. Elle n'en est peut-etre...  Read More >>

Happy Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

Happy Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific...

Author: Ellen Hardy
ISBN: 9798374199130
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Have you ever wanted to know the secret to a truly happy life? Drawing from the world's longest-running study on...  Read More >>

James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality: Postcritical and Postsecular Reading in Dubliners and Ulysses

James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality: Postcritical...

Author: Richard Rankin Russell
ISBN: 9781474499002
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first book-length treatment of Joyce and hospitality  Read More >>

Love in Contemporary British Drama: Traditions and Transformations of a Cultural Emotion

Love in Contemporary British Drama: Traditions and Transformations...

Author: Korbinian Stöckl
ISBN: 9783111111230
Format: Paperback
$34.23

Love is not only a timeless motif that has never lost its grip on writers and audiences. It is also a cultural emotion...  Read More >>

Handbuch Literatur & Transnationalität

Handbuch Literatur & Transnationalität

Author: Doerte Bischoff ,  Susanne Komfort-Hein
ISBN: 9783111130491
Format: Paperback
$51.39

The handbook compiles essays on history and theory as well as the forms and procedures of transnational literatures....  Read More >>

Der Fontane-Ton: Stil im Werk Theodor Fontanes

Der Fontane-Ton: Stil im Werk Theodor Fontanes

Author: Andrew Cusack ,  Michael White
ISBN: 9783111087054
Format: Paperback
$34.23

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Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults

Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults...

Author: Paul Venzo ,  Kristine Moruzi
ISBN: 9780367674748
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Lesbarkeit nach Hans Blumenberg

Lesbarkeit nach Hans Blumenberg

Author: Alexander Waszynski
ISBN: 9783111131900
Format: Paperback
$34.23

"Hans Blumenberg did not formulate a theory of reading, but in his dissertation of 1946-47 he had already established...  Read More >>

Ko-Erinnerung: Grenzen, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven des neueren Shoah-Gedenkens

Ko-Erinnerung: Grenzen, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven...

Author: Daniela Henke ,  Tom Vanassche
ISBN: 9783111130255
Format: Paperback
$34.23

In this volume, 18 authors seek to answer the question of whether the memory of genocide, persecution, and structural...  Read More >>

Handbuch Literatur & Ökonomie

Handbuch Literatur & Ökonomie

Author: Joseph Vogl ,  Burkhardt Wolf
ISBN: 9783111130781
Format: Paperback
$59.97

From ancient treatises on housekeeping to recent stories on the excesses of the financial sector, the conjunction...  Read More >>

Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Literaturdidaktik

Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Literaturdidaktik...

Author: Christiane Lütge
ISBN: 9783111131092
Format: Paperback
$51.39

The volume presents a comprehensive philological view of literary didactics. It outlines issues from areas of literary...  Read More >>

The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures

The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures

Author: G. Thomas Couser
ISBN: 9780367620813
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not. Memoir matters, and there’s...  Read More >>

Barock en miniature – Kleine literarische Formen in Barock und Moderne

Barock en miniature – Kleine literarische Formen in...

Author: Matthias Müller ,  Nils C. Ritter
ISBN: 9783111126487
Format: Paperback
$34.23

This volume examines the history of short literary forms between Baroque and modernist literature. The essays look...  Read More >>

Introduction to Digital Humanities: Enhancing Scholarship with the Use of Technology

Introduction to Digital Humanities: Enhancing Scholarship...

Author: Kathryn C. Wymer
ISBN: 9780367711153
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Introduction to Digital Humanities is designed for researchers, teachers, and learners in humanities subject areas...  Read More >>

Ulrike Draesner: A Companion

Ulrike Draesner: A Companion

Author: Karen Jane Leeder ,  Lyn Marven
ISBN: 9783110478952
Format: Paperback
$42.81

Ulrike Draesner is a prize-winning writer of novels, short stories, critical essays and poetry, and one of the foremost...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning

Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning

Author: Lisa Dickson ,  Shannon Murray
ISBN: 9781487570514
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Taking cues from the energy of the stage, this book harnesses lessons from some of Shakespeare's most popular plays...  Read More >>

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