Literary studies: general books

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"Ann Leckie’s ""Ancillary Justice""": A Critical Companion

"Ann Leckie’s ""Ancillary Justice""": A Critical Companion...

Author: David M. Higgins
ISBN: 9783031182600
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social,...  Read More >>

Dirty Hearts: The History of Shindō Renmei

Dirty Hearts: The History of Shindō Renmei

Author: Fernando Morais ,  Seth Jacobowitz
ISBN: 9783030705640
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Fernando Morais’ Dirty Hearts is a tour de force of literary journalism that investigates the discriminatory treatment...  Read More >>

Charlotte Mary Yonge: Writing the Victorian Age

Charlotte Mary Yonge: Writing the Victorian Age

Author: Clare Walker Gore ,  Clemence Schultze
ISBN: 9783031106712
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Exploring her key role in the Anglican revival, her importance as a test case in the development of feminist criticism,...  Read More >>

Drugs, Violence and Latin America: Global Psychotropy and Culture

Drugs, Violence and Latin America: Global Psychotropy...

Author: Joseph Patteson
ISBN: 9783030689261
Format: Paperback
$206.97

A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for...  Read More >>

Ezra Pound′s Atlas – Essays on Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Textuality in The Cantos

Ezra Pound′s Atlas – Essays on Philosophy, Aesthetics,...

Author: Mark Byron ,  Ira B. Nadel
ISBN: 9783838210810
Format: Paperback
$108.68

This collection of essays brings together more than a decade of work on the poetry of Ezra Pound and particularly...  Read More >>

The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature

The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature...

Author: Stephen Orgel (J. E. Reynolds Professor in Humanities, J. E. Reynolds Professor in Humanities, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780192871534
Format: Hardback
$133.95

In this new addition to the Oxford Textual Perspectives series, Stephen Orgel considers the idea of the book not...  Read More >>

On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers

On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers

Author: Geraldine Brooks
ISBN: 9781760643638
Format: Hardback
$22.99

A gift of an essay that illuminates the literary talents of two of Australia's greatest writers In this beautifully...  Read More >>

Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics

Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics...

Author: Michael Boyden (Professor of English, Professor of English, Radboud University Nijmegen)
ISBN: 9780192868305
Format: Hardback
$175.95

This book explains how we came to think of the climate as something abstract and remote rather than a force that...  Read More >>

Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature

Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature...

Author: Melvyn New (Professor Emeritus) ,  Anthony W. Lee
ISBN: 9780271093970
Format: Hardback
$260.00

""A collection of essays by scholars of eighteenth-century literature, sharing their experiences as both producers...  Read More >>

Renaissance Papers 2021

Renaissance Papers 2021

Author: James M Pearce (Contributor) ,  Professor Ward J. Risvold
ISBN: 9781640141438
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings...  Read More >>

The Secret Of Stillness: Ancient Stoic and Buddhist thought

The Secret Of Stillness: Ancient Stoic and Buddhist...

Author: Mac Anthony
ISBN: 9798371420282
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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The Holocaust in French Postmodern Fiction: Aesthetics, Politics, Ethics

The Holocaust in French Postmodern Fiction: Aesthetics,...

Author: Helena Duffy
ISBN: 9781781888186
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor: Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms

The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor: Disparagement...

Author: Katja Schulze
ISBN: 9783837662603
Format: Paperback
$82.95

Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of disparagement...  Read More >>

The Concept of Honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry: A Cultural Linguistic Study

The Concept of Honor in the Language of Early Arabic...

Author: Lukasz Bogucki ,  Bartosz Pietrzak
ISBN: 9783631882900
Format: Hardback
$98.32

The book presents an ethnolinguistic study on lexical expressions of honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry....  Read More >>

An Historical Syntax of the English Language: Volume I: Syntactical Units with One Verb

An Historical Syntax of the English Language: Volume...

Author: F.Th. Visser
ISBN: 9789004537033
Format: Paperback
$245.52

This reproduction of Visser's volumes is more than welcome, and timely, as the volumes have been out of print for...  Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers Who Lived Between 1990 and 1999, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Criticism of the...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028672007
Format: Hardback
$1790.58

Presents literary criticism on the works of twentieth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical...  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: 9780028671857
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

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

Modern Literatures in Spain

Modern Literatures in Spain

Author: Jo Labanyi (New York University, USA) ,  Luisa Elena Delgado
ISBN: 9780745634968
Format: Paperback
$36.95

Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors...  Read More >>

Passe Et Present: 1830-1838

Passe Et Present: 1830-1838

Author: Karl Gutzkow ,  Lucien Calvie
ISBN: 9782406142065
Format: Paperback
$71.28

The interest of the text is in highlighting the role of Heine and Borne, Jewish intellectuals, in the genesis of...  Read More >>

Oeuvres Completes: Le Banquet

Oeuvres Completes: Le Banquet

Author: Dante Alighieri ,  Bruno Pinchard
ISBN: 9782406142034
Format: Paperback
$150.48

Dante is not just a poet but also a philosopher, and he presents the same innovative force in both sides of his...  Read More >>

Brill’s Companion to Classical Reception and Modern World Poetry

Brill’s Companion to Classical Reception and Modern...

Author: Polina Tambakaki
ISBN: 9789004529250
Format: Hardback
$522.72

The volume combines for the first time the fields of Classical Reception and World Literature in a pioneering collection...  Read More >>

Blake and Lucretius: The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood

Blake and Lucretius: The Atomistic Materialism of the...

Author: Joshua Schouten de Jel
ISBN: 9783030888909
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood – the lens...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge...

Author: Martin Garrett
ISBN: 9783031155710
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The prose – critical, philosophical, political, religious – ranges from his early radical writings to the more conservative...  Read More >>

The Tramp in British Literature, 1850—1950

The Tramp in British Literature, 1850—1950

Author: Luke Lewin Davies
ISBN: 9783030734343
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2022, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 offers a unique...  Read More >>

A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory

A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory

Author: Michael Ryan
ISBN: 9781032305004
Format: Paperback
$71.99

A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory offers an accessible introduction to all the current approaches...  Read More >>

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