Literary studies: general books

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Il Etait Une Fois, Ou Deux...: Le Conte de Fees En Heritage

Il Etait Une Fois, Ou Deux...: Le Conte de Fees En Heritage...

Author: Jean Mainil
ISBN: 9782406133414
Format: Hardback
$208.56

This essay recounts the destiny of heroines who are universally recognized, from their literary genesis in the Grand...  Read More >>

Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague

Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets,...

Author: Eve Salisbury
ISBN: 9781350249790
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Exploring medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the “Great Mortality”, this book examines...  Read More >>

Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music

Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music

Author: Ryan Hibbett (Assistant Professor of English, Northern Illinois University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501354694
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Discusses the relationship between popular music and literature in conjunction with the connection between high...  Read More >>

Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics

Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics...

Author: Amit Shilo (University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781108832748
Format: Hardback
$194.06

The diverse afterlife scenarios that pervade the Oresteia have never been examined together. This innovative study...  Read More >>

The New Joyce Studies

The New Joyce Studies

Author: Catherine Flynn (University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781009235679
Format: Hardback
$194.06

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Synopsis of Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Synopsis of Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us...

Author: Todd T Sawyer
ISBN: 9798356765063
Format: Paperback
$27.79

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Unknown child

Unknown child

Author: Matt Dom
ISBN: 9798356791888
Format: Paperback
$55.40

Around 41.3 percent of New Yorkers lived in near poverty in 2018, and as of early 2020, there were an estimated...  Read More >>

The Funambulists: Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora

The Funambulists: Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora

Author: Lisa Marchi
ISBN: 9780815637523
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Brings together the diverse poetry collections of six contemporary Arab diasporic women poets. Spanning multiple...  Read More >>

The Transculturation of Judge Dee Stories: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

The Transculturation of Judge Dee Stories: A Cross-Cultural...

Author: Yan WEI
ISBN: 9781032314150
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Walter Pater's European Imagination

Walter Pater's European Imagination

Author: Lene Østermark-Johansen (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Copenhagen)
ISBN: 9780192858757
Format: Hardback
$265.95

This is the first monograph that explores the work and legacy of Walter Pater from a European perspective. It offers...  Read More >>

The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal

The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern...

Author: Professor Josiah Blackmore
ISBN: 9780226820460
Format: Hardback
$57.95

An expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal.   In this book,...  Read More >>

Forces of Nature: Dynamism and Agency in German Romanticism

Forces of Nature: Dynamism and Agency in German Romanticism...

Author: Adrian Renner ,  Frederike Middelhoff
ISBN: 9783110783773
Format: Paperback
$135.00

By the end of the 18th century, notions of ""forces of nature"" (Naturkräfte) were increasingly discussed across...  Read More >>

Mallarme - Der Wurfelwurf

Mallarme - Der Wurfelwurf

Author: Winfried Wehle
ISBN: 9783825349646
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Mallarme ist ein Phanomen: so gross sein Ansehen, so gering weithin die Kenntnis seines Werkes. Das ist Absicht....  Read More >>

The Funambulists: Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora

The Funambulists: Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora

Author: Lisa Marchi
ISBN: 9780815637554
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Brings together the diverse poetry collections of six contemporary Arab diasporic women poets. Spanning multiple...  Read More >>

>Gegen Aristokrates Demosthenes

>Gegen Aristokrates Demosthenes

Author: Sandra Zajonz
ISBN: 9783110792676
Format: Hardback
$240.15

Demosthenes's speech Against Aristocrates has not yet received the attention in philological research that it has...  Read More >>

Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades

Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant...

Author: Julian Yolles
ISBN: 9780884024880
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Making the East Latin analyzes the literary and rhetorical techniques of varied sources, revealing the ways Crusader...  Read More >>

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338404
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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Flann O'Brien: Acting Out

Flann O'Brien: Acting Out

Author: Paul Fagan ,  Dieter Fuchs
ISBN: 9781782055358
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Flann O'Brien: Acting out is the first full-length study to comprehensively address the themes of performance, masking...  Read More >>

Unruly Narrative: Private Property, Self-Making, and Toni Morrison’s ›A Mercy‹

Unruly Narrative: Private Property, Self-Making, and...

Author: Samira Spatzek
ISBN: 9783110780345
Format: Hardback
$159.50

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The Art and Ideology of Terence MacSwiney: Caught in the living flame

The Art and Ideology of Terence MacSwiney: Caught in...

Author: Gabriel Doherty ,  Fiona Brennan
ISBN: 9781782055037
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Terence MacSwiney is most famous as the central figure in one of the great hunger strikes in world history, which...  Read More >>

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