Literary studies: general books

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Vertigo Comics: British Creators, US Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint

Vertigo Comics: British Creators, US Editors, and the...

Author: Isabelle Licari-Guillaume (University of Nice Côte d’Azur, France)
ISBN: 9780367672775
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores the so-called ""British Invasion"" of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History

The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World...

Author: May Hawas
ISBN: 9781032401928
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This Companion is an interdisciplinary volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create...  Read More >>

The Making of Middle-earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings

The Making of Middle-earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and...

Author: Christopher A. Snyder
ISBN: 9781454944751
Format: Hardback
$79.17

This book, originally published in 2013 and richly illustrated with photographs and artwork , was the first to connect...  Read More >>

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology...

Author: Erin James ,  Eric Morel
ISBN: 9780814255650
Format: Paperback
$77.50

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Horace across the Media: Textual, Visual and Musical Receptions of Horace from the 15th to the 18th Century

Horace across the Media: Textual, Visual and Musical...

Author: Karl A.E. Enenkel ,  Marc Laureys
ISBN: 9789004373716
Format: Hardback
$726.00

This volume explores various perceptions, adaptations, and appropriations of Horace in the Early Modern age across...  Read More >>

After Clarice: Reading Lispector's Legacy in the Twenty-First Century

After Clarice: Reading Lispector's Legacy in the Twenty-First...

Author: Adriana X Jacobs ,  Claire Williams
ISBN: 9781781888599
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Forty years after her death, Clarice Lispector's startling oeuvre continues to fascinate readers and scholars. Internationally...  Read More >>

Narrative Strategies for Participation in Dante's Divine Comedy

Narrative Strategies for Participation in Dante's Divine...

Author: K Powlesland
ISBN: 9781839540370
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Since the earliest days of its circulation, Dante's Divine Comedy has drawn readers into conversation with it, but...  Read More >>

Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture

Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French...

Author: Adam Watt
ISBN: 9781839540554
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This substantial volume of essays is published in honour of Edward J. Hughes. Focussing on the experience of work,...  Read More >>

The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre

The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre

Author: Jade Boyd
ISBN: 9781839540707
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect...  Read More >>

Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language

Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language

Author: Francesca Southerden
ISBN: 9781839541421
Format: Hardback
$219.94

In Dante's Paradiso, the first garden dweller, Adam, speaks of the language he 'used and shaped' (Par. XXVI, 114)...  Read More >>

Synopsis of the Rise of the Rest

Synopsis of the Rise of the Rest

Author: James Flores
ISBN: 9798355047863
Format: Paperback
$21.76

DISCLAIMER: This book isn't written by the original author(s) of the book. It is written and independently published...  Read More >>

Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction: Living in Translation

Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction: Living...

Author: Ludmilla Voitkovska
ISBN: 9781032258768
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Considering Conrad’s transcultural background, this volume investigates the essential features of his expatriate...  Read More >>

Rip Van Winkle's Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory

Rip Van Winkle's Republic: Washington Irving in History...

Author: Andrew Burstein ,  Nancy Isenberg
ISBN: 9780807177594
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Edited by acclaimed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Rip Van Winkle’s Republic marks a rediscovery...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Smaller Stories

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Smaller Stories

Author: Carolyn Lambert
ISBN: 9783030797072
Format: Paperback
$258.72

The periodicals in which Gaskell’s shorter pieces were published offer a microcosm of nineteenth-century society,...  Read More >>

Authorship and the Hebrew Bible

Authorship and the Hebrew Bible

Author: Sonja Ammann ,  Katharina Pyschny
ISBN: 9783161614903
Format: Hardback
$329.65

"Does ""authorship"" still have a place in the study of the Hebrew Bible? Historical criticism has long sought to...  Read More >>

Transgression and Deviance in the Ancient World

Transgression and Deviance in the Ancient World

Author: Lennart Gilhaus ,  Anja Dorn
ISBN: 9783476058720
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The contributions to this anthology aim to provide some impulses on the relationship between norm and deviance in...  Read More >>

Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western Stage

Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western...

Author: Jessica Goodman
ISBN: 9781781886861
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Commitment in Italy 1945-1975: Edoardo Sanguineti, Ottiero Ottieri, Andrea Zanzotto

Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Commitment in Italy 1945-1975:...

Author: Alessandra Diazzi
ISBN: 9781781887943
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Over the post-war decades, Italy's 'extroverted' cultural identity was mostly oriented towards social and political...  Read More >>

'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music

'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature...

Author: Walter Bernhart ,  Werner Wolf
ISBN: 9789004516465
Format: Hardback
$314.16

‘Retro’ is not only a pervading phenomenon in today’s Western culture but has informed cultural history for some...  Read More >>

Komik und Humor

Komik und Humor

Author: Theodor Lipps
ISBN: 9783368264703
Format: Paperback
$103.24

Der Philosoph und Psychologe Theodor Lipps untersucht die Wirkung und Prinzipien von Komik und Humor. Gegliedert...  Read More >>

Literarische Spielaspekte Bei Robert Walser, Wilhelm Genazino Und Matthias Zschokke: Eine Gestufte Wirkungsgeschichte Der Romantik

Literarische Spielaspekte Bei Robert Walser, Wilhelm...

Author: Julia Schreiter
ISBN: 9783825349578
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Robert Walsers Figuren- und Sprachgestaltung ist durch Momente der Uneindeutigkeit charakterisiert: einer Pendelbewegung...  Read More >>

Komik und Humor

Komik und Humor

Author: Theodor Lipps
ISBN: 9783368264710
Format: Hardback
$154.99

Der Philosoph und Psychologe Theodor Lipps untersucht die Wirkung und Prinzipien von Komik und Humor. Gegliedert...  Read More >>

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