Literary studies: general books

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English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil c. 1400-1550

English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil c. 1400-1550...

Author: Matthew Day
ISBN: 9780192871138
Format: Hardback
$175.95

Matthew Day reassesses how the spread of Renaissance humanism in England impacted the reception of Virgil. In emphasizing...  Read More >>

Minor Salvage: The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings

Minor Salvage: The Korean War and Korean American Life...

Author: Stephen Hong Sohn
ISBN: 9780472055203
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Reads early Korean American life writings in order to explore the partial ways in which those made precarious by...  Read More >>

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji Volume 28

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji Volume 28

Author: Gaye Rowley
ISBN: 9780472039180
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Yosano Akiko has long been recognised as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown...  Read More >>

Las ciudades del deseo: Las políticas de género, sexualidad y espacio urbano en el Caribe hispano

Las ciudades del deseo: Las políticas de género, sexualidad...

Author: Elena Valdez
ISBN: 9781612498171
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Explores the representations of gender, sexuality, and urban space in contemporary narratives from Cuba, the Dominican...  Read More >>

Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction

Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian...

Author: Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
ISBN: 9780813948454
Format: Paperback
$104.28

What would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics,...  Read More >>

Cicero: Academica (Academicus Primus, Fragmenta et Testimonia Academicorum Librorum, Lucullus)

Cicero: Academica (Academicus Primus, Fragmenta et Testimonia...

Author: Tobias Reinhardt (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199249572
Format: Hardback
$108.95

A new critical edition of this text, the first since 1908 and the first to appear in the Oxford Classical Texts...  Read More >>

Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas: Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series

Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas: Female Renown and the...

Author: Gregory M. Pfitzer
ISBN: 9781625346926
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Between 1932 and 1958, thousands of children read volumes in the book series Childhood of Famous Americans. These...  Read More >>

Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews

Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience...

Author: Sabrina Reed
ISBN: 9781772840094
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Perceptive, controversial, topical, and achingly funny, Miriam Toews’s books have earned her a place at the forefront...  Read More >>

Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism

Author: Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA) ,  Zahi Zalloua (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures / Whitman College, Whitman College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501367441
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""Explores and illuminates Slavoj éZiézek's impact on our understanding of literary and cultural modernism""--  Read More >>

Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance

Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution,...

Author: Peter Reed (University of Mississippi)
ISBN: 9781009100526
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Peter P. Reed examines the meanings of Haiti in America's nineteenth-century popular performance. Plays, social...  Read More >>

Cicero's Academici libri and Lucullus: A Commentary with Introduction and Translations

Cicero's Academici libri and Lucullus: A Commentary...

Author: Tobias Reinhardt (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199277148
Format: Hardback
$508.95

This volume is the first detailed commentary on Cicero's Academica in over a century. It takes full account of the...  Read More >>

Octavia E. Butler: A Literary Companion

Octavia E. Butler: A Literary Companion

Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
ISBN: 9781476688756
Format: Paperback
$80.30

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Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary Discourse

Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation...

Author: Yasmin Syed
ISBN: 9780472039166
Format: Paperback
$79.07

As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations...  Read More >>

Parenting a Twenty First Century Child: A Remedy for Societal Ills

Parenting a Twenty First Century Child: A Remedy for...

Author: Donald Armstrong
ISBN: 9798371743909
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity

Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity...

Author: Patrick Kindig
ISBN: 9780807178515
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Argues that, in response to the scientific and cultural changes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...  Read More >>

Allegory and the Poetic Self: First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature

Allegory and the Poetic Self: First-Person Narration...

Author: R. Barton Palmer ,  Katharina Philipowski
ISBN: 9780813069517
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Provides the first collective examination of Late Medieval intimate first-person narratives that blurred the lines...  Read More >>

Indigenuity: Native Craftwork & the Art of American Literatures

Indigenuity: Native Craftwork & the Art of American...

Author: Caroline Wigginton
ISBN: 9781469670362
Format: Hardback
$159.50

In this innovative work at the intersection of Indigenous studies, literary studies, book history, and material...  Read More >>

The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myŏng-sun: The Flower Dream of a Woman Born Too Soon

The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myŏng-sun: The...

Author: Jung Ja Choi
ISBN: 9781032365930
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Writing the South African San: Colonial Ethnographic Discourses

Writing the South African San: Colonial Ethnographic...

Author: Lara Atkin
ISBN: 9783030862282
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description

Author: Brett Bourbon
ISBN: 9781032363387
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood: Myths and Realities

Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood:...

Author: Marina Balina ,  Larissa Rudova
ISBN: 9781032227962
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood is a collection of multidisciplinary scholarly essays...  Read More >>

Valencian Folktales: Enric Valor

Valencian Folktales: Enric Valor

Author: Paul Scott Derrick ,  Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor
ISBN: 9781032348704
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Translations and Semi-Peripheral Cultures: Worlding the Romanian Novel in the Modern Literary System

Translations and Semi-Peripheral Cultures: Worlding...

Author: Alex Goldiș ,  Ștefan Baghiu
ISBN: 9783631888766
Format: Hardback
$98.32

World Literature, translation, minor literature, national literature, Romanian literature, literary theory, East...  Read More >>

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter...

Author: Alex Donovan Cole
ISBN: 9781032231648
Format: Hardback
$263.00

I argue for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public...  Read More >>

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