Literary studies: general books

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Performance in Beowulf and other Old English Poems

Performance in Beowulf and other Old English Poems

Author: Dr Steven J.A. Breeze
ISBN: 9781843846451
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An examination of the depiction and representation of performative acts in Old English texts.  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: 9780028671819
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 >>

Lettres Et Papiers de Famille

Lettres Et Papiers de Famille

Author: Madame Du Deffand ,  Julie De Lespinasse
ISBN: 9782406137818
Format: Paperback
$97.68

The 200 or so letters gathered here take us on a trip across the whole sweep of the life of Julie de Lespinasse,...  Read More >>

Le Style de Samuel Beckett Au Miroir Epistolaire: 1929-1989

Le Style de Samuel Beckett Au Miroir Epistolaire: 1929-1989...

Author: Karine Germoni ,  Pascale Sardin
ISBN: 9782406137542
Format: Paperback
$105.60

This volume studies Samuel Beckett's style in the mirror of his letters, in so far as they provide an idea of the...  Read More >>

The III-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory

The III-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the...

Author: William Matthews
ISBN: 9780520373365
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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Beyond Fiction: The Recovery of the Feminine in the Novels of Cervantes

Beyond Fiction: The Recovery of the Feminine in the...

Author: Ruth El Saffar
ISBN: 9780520373525
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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English Romantic Poetry: Ethos, Structure, and Symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats

English Romantic Poetry: Ethos, Structure, and Symbol...

Author: Albert S. Gerard
ISBN: 9780520373860
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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Why the Lyrical Ballads?: The Background, Writing, and Character of Wordsworth's 1798 Lyrical Ballads

Why the Lyrical Ballads?: The Background, Writing, and...

Author: John E. Jordan
ISBN: 9780520373891
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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Quarry for Middlemarch

Quarry for Middlemarch

Author: George Eliot ,  Anna Theresa Kitchel
ISBN: 9780520374126
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Dickens and Ellen Ternan

Dickens and Ellen Ternan

Author: Ada Nisbet ,  Edmund Wilson
ISBN: 9780520374577
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Adam Mickiewicz In World Literature

Adam Mickiewicz In World Literature

Author: Waclaw Lednicki
ISBN: 9780520374881
Format: Hardback
$173.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The Language of Siegfried Sassoon

The Language of Siegfried Sassoon

Author: Marcello Giovanelli
ISBN: 9783030884680
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of the writing of Siegfried Sassoon, a First World War poet who...  Read More >>

Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing: The Absent Author

Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing:...

Author: Lodovica Braida
ISBN: 9783031038976
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian...  Read More >>

Les Errances de Frere Felix, Pelerin En Terre Sainte, En Arabie Et En Egypte. Tome X: Traites 10 Et 11

Les Errances de Frere Felix, Pelerin En Terre Sainte,...

Author: Felix Fabri ,  Michel Tarayre
ISBN: 9782406132899
Format: Paperback
$153.12

The treatises 10 and 11 recount, with talent and erudition, the return by the Adriatic to Venice, which is amply...  Read More >>

Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

Author: Edith Hall (University of Durham, UK) ,  Laura Jansen (University of Bristol UK)
ISBN: 9781350194588
Format: Paperback
$61.99

This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets...  Read More >>

Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature

Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature

Author: Dr Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen University, The Netherlands) ,  Marian W. Makins (Temple University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350192218
Format: Paperback
$61.99

In this open access volume, literary scholars and ancient historians from across the globe investigate the creation,...  Read More >>

Ezra Pound's Japan

Ezra Pound's Japan

Author: Andrew Houwen (Tokyo Women's Christian University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781350216808
Format: Paperback
$61.99

This book is the first to deal with the subject of Ezra Pound's relationships with Japanese literature as a whole....  Read More >>

Coriolanus: A Critical Reader

Coriolanus: A Critical Reader

Author: Dr Liam E. Semler (University of Sydney, Australia) ,  Dr Andrew Hiscock
ISBN: 9781350213654
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Coriolanus is the last and most intriguing of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies. Critics, directors and actors have...  Read More >>

Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945

Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and...

Author: Dr. Salvatore Pappalardo (Associate Professor, Towson University, USA) ,  Imke Meyer (University of Illinois at Chicago USA)
ISBN: 9781501369957
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""Demonstrates how the idea of a united Europe was a modern literary utopia before it was an economic and political...  Read More >>

Menander: Dyscolus Et Fabulae Quarum Fragmenta in Papyris Membranisque Servata Sunt

Menander: Dyscolus Et Fabulae Quarum Fragmenta in Papyris...

Author: Rudolf Kassel ,  Stephan Schröder
ISBN: 9783110109238
Format: Hardback
$712.80

Following volume VI.2, which compiled witnesses to Menander's life, work, and impact and contained fragments preserved...  Read More >>

The Short Writings of Nelson Algren: A Study of His Stories, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Poems and Other Literature

The Short Writings of Nelson Algren: A Study of His...

Author: Richard F. Bales
ISBN: 9781476681320
Format: Paperback
$80.30

Nelson Algren was a renowned Chicago writer, known for his social commentary and his novels like The Man with the...  Read More >>

Eros the Bittersweet

Eros the Bittersweet

Author: Anne Carson ,  Sandra Newman
ISBN: 9781628973860
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book by an author whose acclaim...  Read More >>

Translation: Crafts, Contexts, Consequences

Translation: Crafts, Contexts, Consequences

Author: Jan Steyn (University of Iowa)
ISBN: 9781108485395
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Translation practice, its specialized contexts, and its ethical and political aspects, too often studied separately,...  Read More >>

Giornale Italiano Di Filologia 74 (2022)

Giornale Italiano Di Filologia 74 (2022)

Author: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503597515
Format: Paperback
$488.40

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