Literary studies: general books

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FrC 19.1 Antiphanes frr. 1-100

FrC 19.1 Antiphanes frr. 1-100

Author: S Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9783949189630
Format: Hardback
$235.44

Antiphanes is one of the most important writers of the Middle Attic comedy. His plays deal with matters connected...  Read More >>

Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century: Spaces beyond the Centres

Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century: Spaces...

Author: Arunima Bhattacharya ,  Richard Hibbitt
ISBN: 9783031130595
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine...  Read More >>

The Words of Winston Churchill: Speeches 1933-1940

The Words of Winston Churchill: Speeches 1933-1940

Author: Jonathan Locke Hart
ISBN: 9781032312040
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Myths and Memories of the Black Death

Myths and Memories of the Black Death

Author: Ben Dodds
ISBN: 9783030890605
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The Black Death is one of the...  Read More >>

When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature

When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples...

Author: Alan L. Boegehold
ISBN: 9780691242224
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Encourages an appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the...  Read More >>

Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature: Relational Worlds

Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature:...

Author: Joseph Hankinson
ISBN: 9783031187759
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist...  Read More >>

Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in Genre Film

Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in Genre...

Author: Kinga Földváry
ISBN: 9781526167132
Format: Paperback
$45.99

The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical...  Read More >>

Das politische Imaginare eurasischer Fiktionsraume: Imperiale (Gegen-)Diskurse im postsowjetischen Russland

Das politische Imaginare eurasischer Fiktionsraume:...

Author: Marina Klyshko ,  Swen Wagner
ISBN: 9783525364291
Format: Hardback
$150.05

The study deals with the Eurasian representations of political unity and their reflection in Russian literature...  Read More >>

Grenzganger des 20. Jahrhunderts: Perspektiven auf das literarische, journalistische und filmische Werk Heinrich Hausers (1901--1955)

Grenzganger des 20. Jahrhunderts: Perspektiven auf das...

Author: Sebastian Susteck
ISBN: 9783847115359
Format: Hardback
$111.24

Heinrich Hauser (19011955) is one of the most unusual authors of the early 20th century. In a unique way he combined...  Read More >>

Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript – An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)

Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript – An Edition of British...

Author: Jessica Edmondes ,  Humfrey Coningsby
ISBN: 9781649590206
Format: Hardback
$211.07

This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable...  Read More >>

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

Author: Matthew Hollis
ISBN: 9780393240252
Format: Hardback
$105.60

A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.  Read More >>

Ryszard Kapuściński: Biography of a Writer

Ryszard Kapuściński: Biography of a Writer

Author: Beata Nowacka ,  Zygmunt Ziątek
ISBN: 9780228014485
Format: Hardback
$160.43

In the first posthumous monograph on Ryszard Kapuściński’s life and work, Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziątek confront...  Read More >>

Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life

Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of...

Author: Scott Herring
ISBN: 9780231205450
Format: Paperback
$49.95

What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist...  Read More >>

Sophocles

Sophocles

Author: Stephen Esposito
ISBN: 9781780769592
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Who can forget the tragic inevitability of Oedipus' fate, the implacable determination of bereaved Antigone, or...  Read More >>

The Aphrodysial or Sea-Feast

The Aphrodysial or Sea-Feast

Author: Maria Shmygol
ISBN: 9781526169518
Format: Hardback
$56.99

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A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations

A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations

Author: Lady Anne Halkett ,  Suzanne Trill
ISBN: 9781649590244
Format: Paperback
$176.75

The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray)...  Read More >>

You Must Set Forth at Dawn

You Must Set Forth at Dawn

Author: Soyinka Wole
ISBN: 9780413776303
Format: Paperback
$28.95

"The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd

Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd

Author: Darren Freebury-Jones
ISBN: 9781526164742
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Shakespeare's tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd defines Thomas Kyd's dramatic canon and indicates where and how...  Read More >>

María de Zayas and her Tales of Desire, Death and Disillusion

María de Zayas and her Tales of Desire, Death and Disillusion...

Author: Professor Margaret R Greer (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781855663602
Format: Hardback
$207.00

'Who doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send...  Read More >>

Karbala: A Historical Play by Premchand

Karbala: A Historical Play by Premchand

Author: Professor Nishat Zaidi (Professor, Professor, Jamia Milia Islamia) ,  Premchand (Poet, Poet)
ISBN: 9780190132637
Format: Hardback
$119.00

In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain, sacrificed his life and his family members...  Read More >>

The Ford Family in Ireland: by Elizabeth Ham

The Ford Family in Ireland: by Elizabeth Ham

Author: Jennifer Martin
ISBN: 9780367710088
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Elizabeth Ham's 1845 novel, The Ford Family in Ireland, provides a snapshot, based on the personal experiences of...  Read More >>

Nietzsche’s Early Literary Writings and The Birth of Tragedy

Nietzsche’s Early Literary Writings and The Birth of...

Author: Professor Emeritus Steven D. Martinson (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781640141186
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Understands Nietzsche in the light of his activity as a creative writer from his juvenilia through the publication...  Read More >>

The Heat of Beowulf

The Heat of Beowulf

Author: Daniel C. Remein (Assistant Professor of English)
ISBN: 9781526150585
Format: Hardback
$195.00

The heat of Beowulf reexamines the aesthetics of the longest surviving Old English poem through the poetics of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection

The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection...

Author: Oscar Wilde ,  Nicholas Frankel
ISBN: 9780674271821
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Though best known for his drama and fiction, Oscar Wilde was also a pioneering critic. He introduced the idea that...  Read More >>

East Central European Cemeteries: Ethnic, Linguistic, and Narrative Aspects of Sepulchral Culture and the Commemoration of the Dead in Borderlands

East Central European Cemeteries: Ethnic, Linguistic,...

Author: Christian Voß ,  Ferdinand Kühnel
ISBN: 9783631784488
Format: Paperback
$85.39

Cemeteries in East Central Europe; Ethnic, Linguistic, and Narrative Aspects of Sepulchral Culture and the Commemoration...  Read More >>

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