Literary studies: general books

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Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats's Poetry

Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats's Poetry

Author: Katrina Brannon
ISBN: 9781032230917
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats's Poetry applies an innovative cognitive linguistic approach to the poetry...  Read More >>

Connie Willis’s Science Fiction: Doomsday Every Day

Connie Willis’s Science Fiction: Doomsday Every Day...

Author: Carissa Turner Smith
ISBN: 9781032303802
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This collection argues that Connie Willis’s oeuvre performs science fiction’s task of cognitive estrangement by...  Read More >>

Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters

Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing,...

Author: Robert DeMott
ISBN: 9780826364289
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Explores the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck’s writing. Robert DeMott positions...  Read More >>

Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project

Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers'...

Author: Sara Rutkowski
ISBN: 9781625347008
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Featuring original work by scholars from a range of disciplinary perspectives, this edited collection provides fresh...  Read More >>

A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries

A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats...

Author: Susan J. Wolfson
ISBN: 9780674980891
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Renowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections—some beloved, others less well known—that illuminate...  Read More >>

Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina: Varro's Guide to Being Roman

Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina: Varro's...

Author: Diana Spencer
ISBN: 9780299323240
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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The North of the South: The Natural World and the National Imaginary in the Literature of the Upper South

The North of the South: The Natural World and the National...

Author: Barbara Ladd
ISBN: 9780820362526
Format: Paperback
$55.31

Over the past generation the Deep South has become the primary focus, and the plantation the predominant site, in...  Read More >>

Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom

Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom

Author: John Miller ,  Julie Wilhelm
ISBN: 9781603294188
Format: Paperback
$64.90

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Imperium in Imperio

Imperium in Imperio

Author: Sutton E. Griggs ,  Tess Chakkalakal
ISBN: 9781952271588
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Edited and introduced by Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth Warren, this new critical edition offers not only an incisive...  Read More >>

As Told By Herself: Women's Childhood Autobiography, 1845-1969

As Told By Herself: Women's Childhood Autobiography,...

Author: Lorna Martens
ISBN: 9780299339104
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Offers the first systematic study of women’s autobiographical writing about childhood. More than 175 works - primarily...  Read More >>

Hannah Lynch's Irish Girl Rebels: 'A Girl Revolutionist' and 'Marjory Maurice'

Hannah Lynch's Irish Girl Rebels: 'A Girl Revolutionist'...

Author: Laing
ISBN: 9781913087326
Format: Hardback
$149.00

A vital resource those interested in(Irish) New Girl and New Woman fiction, the Ladies' Land League, literary representations...  Read More >>

Assessing Intelligence: The Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860 1910

Assessing Intelligence: The Bildungsroman and the Politics...

Author: Sara Lyons
ISBN: 9781474497664
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Examines how novelists engaged with the emergence of the IQ concept of intelligence and the meritocratic ideal  Read More >>

The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers

The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers...

Author: Nancy L. Canepa
ISBN: 9780814349205
Format: Hardback
$224.37

The authors featured in this volume have, over the centuries, explored and interrogated the intersections between...  Read More >>

Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction

Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction...

Author: Mary M. McGlynn
ISBN: 9780815637776
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Examines Irish novels of the post-crash era, addressing the proliferation of writing that downplays realistic and...  Read More >>

Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges

Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental...

Author: Tahia Abdel Nasser
ISBN: 9781399507127
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition

American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture...

Author: Emily Coit
ISBN: 9781474475419
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism...  Read More >>

Hamlet after Deconstruction

Hamlet after Deconstruction

Author: Aneta Mancewicz
ISBN: 9783030968052
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Post-war European adaptations of Hamlet are defined by ambiguities and inconsistencies. The book explores this paradigm...  Read More >>

Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature

Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature

Author: Laura Seymour
ISBN: 9781474491808
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Examines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behavior...  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: 9780028671987
Format: Hardback
$1790.58

Presents literary criticism on the works of twentieth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical...  Read More >>

Writing Islands: Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago

Writing Islands: Space and Identity in the Transnational...

Author: Elena Lahr-Vivaz
ISBN: 9781683402701
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Employs methods from archipelagic studies to analyse works of contemporary Cuban writers on the island alongside...  Read More >>

Islam and New Directions in World Literature

Islam and New Directions in World Literature

Author: Jeffrey Einboden ,  Sarah Bin Tyeer
ISBN: 9781474484053
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now

Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for...

Author: Amanda Lagji
ISBN: 9781474490207
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time reveals the fundamental, constitutive role of the temporal dimensions of...  Read More >>

Novels, Rhetoric, and Criticism: A Brief History of Belles Lettres and British Literary Culture, 1680 - 1900

Novels, Rhetoric, and Criticism: A Brief History of...

Author: Jack M Downs
ISBN: 9781648895777
Format: Paperback
$110.88

Developing a history of the English novel requires the inclusion of a vast range of cultural, economic, religious,...  Read More >>

No One to Meet: Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan

No One to Meet: Imitation and Originality in the Songs...

Author: Raphael Falco
ISBN: 9780817321413
Format: Hardback
$92.27

The literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed when...  Read More >>

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