Literary studies: general books

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Asian American Literature

Asian American Literature

Author: Jinqi Ling (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781350336025
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

Author: Emily Orlando (Fairfield University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350182936
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art...  Read More >>

Petrarchan Love and the English Renaissance

Petrarchan Love and the English Renaissance

Author: Gordon Braden (Professor Emeritus of English, University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9780192858368
Format: Hardback
$209.95

Considers lyrical works and the reception of Petrarch's poetry in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England....  Read More >>

Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America

Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s...

Author: Prof Michael Naas (DePaul University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501390692
Format: Hardback
$190.00

""An innovative look at the relevance of DeLillo's work to contemporary literature and thought through the lens...  Read More >>

Victorian Metafiction

Victorian Metafiction

Author: Tabitha Sparks
ISBN: 9780813948690
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Critics agree in the abstract that ‘metafiction’ refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction,...  Read More >>

Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature

Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British...

Author: Mara E. Reisman
ISBN: 9781793648464
Format: Hardback
$172.00

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Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature

Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United...

Author: Kelly Ross (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Rider University)
ISBN: 9780192856272
Format: Hardback
$175.95

This book argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing...  Read More >>

Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer

Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer

Author: William P. Weaver (Professor of Literature in the Honors College, Baylor University)
ISBN: 9780192864154
Format: Hardback
$189.95

Homer in Wittenberg discusses Homer's foundational significance for educational and theological reform during the...  Read More >>

Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across the Atlantic

Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across...

Author: Vartan P. Messier
ISBN: 9780815637875
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Focuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across...  Read More >>

Lucretius

Lucretius

Author: Claudia Schindler
ISBN: 9789004539037
Format: Paperback
$221.76

This volume provides an introduction to Lucretius’ De rerum natura, the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic...  Read More >>

The Multiverse of Office Fiction: Bartlebys at Work

The Multiverse of Office Fiction: Bartlebys at Work...

Author: Masaomi Kobayashi
ISBN: 9783031126871
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

Author: Brian Russell Graham
ISBN: 9781032379180
Format: Hardback
$96.99

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on...  Read More >>

Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching

Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching

Author: Patrick Parrinder
ISBN: 9780367749422
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This book, first published in 1980, analyses science fiction as a mode of literature, examines the definition of...  Read More >>

Irish Women's Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960s–2010s

Irish Women's Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels,...

Author: Red Washburn
ISBN: 9781032103525
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing, 1960s-2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and...  Read More >>

Everyday Multilingualism: Linguistic Landscapes as Practice and Pedagogy

Everyday Multilingualism: Linguistic Landscapes as Practice...

Author: Anikó Hatoss
ISBN: 9781032277028
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Hatoss explores multilingualism in diverse suburbs of Sydney through the oral and written narratives of student...  Read More >>

Beckett the Shape Changer: A Symposium

Beckett the Shape Changer: A Symposium

Author: Katharine Worth
ISBN: 9780367747732
Format: Paperback
$60.99

The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to...  Read More >>

Beckett on File

Beckett on File

Author: Virginia Cooke ,  Simon Trussler
ISBN: 9780367746704
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This book, first published in 1985, contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer’s plays, with a detailed...  Read More >>

Beckett the Playwright

Beckett the Playwright

Author: John Fletcher ,  John Spurling
ISBN: 9780367747350
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This book, first published in 1985, stresses Beckett’s success as an innovator in the theatre through a close reading...  Read More >>

Theatre on Trial: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama

Theatre on Trial: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama

Author: Anna McMullan
ISBN: 9780367747589
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett’s later drama in the context...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts and Non-Print Media

Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts and...

Author: Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA)
ISBN: 9780367754310
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett’s visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary...  Read More >>

The World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976: The History of a Subculture

The World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976: The History...

Author: Lester del Rey
ISBN: 9780367748968
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book, first published in 1980, analyses the history of science fiction and related developments, for instance...  Read More >>

Animals, Animality and Controversy in Modern Welsh Literature and Culture

Animals, Animality and Controversy in Modern Welsh Literature...

Author: Linden Peach
ISBN: 9781786839374
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Drawing on key concepts and ideas from animal studies, this is the first study of how Welsh literature explores...  Read More >>

R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams: The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh Poetry

R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams: The Spiritual Imagination...

Author: M. Wynn Thomas
ISBN: 9781786839466
Format: Paperback
$51.95

R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams enjoy an international reputation. This book demonstrates how the spiritual poetry...  Read More >>

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