Literary studies: general books

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Shakespearean Language and the Public Sphere: Performance and Staged Meaning

Shakespearean Language and the Public Sphere: Performance...

Author: Nigel Wood (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350105720
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Through a close reading of Shakespeare's works, Nigel Wood argues for the power of Shakespeare's dramatic language...  Read More >>

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 8: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 8: Edited with Introduction,...

Author: Cristiano Castelletti ,  Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9780192865892
Format: Hardback
$388.12

This volume is the first dedicated English commentary on the eighth and final book of Valerius Flaccus' Flavian...  Read More >>

Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth

Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth...

Author: Daniel DiMassa
ISBN: 9781684484188
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a...  Read More >>

Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics

Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics...

Author: Martin Revermann (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781108747455
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A wide-ranging, detailed and engaging study of Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition,...  Read More >>

The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

Author: Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781316508978
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book argues that the voice is a crucial link between bodies, thought, and mortal identity in the tragedies...  Read More >>

A History of Canadian Fiction

A History of Canadian Fiction

Author: David Staines (University of Ottawa)
ISBN: 9781108406468
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The first one-volume history of Canadian fiction covering its growth and development from earliest times to the...  Read More >>

La Parole Du Poeme: Approche Enonciative de la Poesie de Langue Francaise (1900-2020)

La Parole Du Poeme: Approche Enonciative de la Poesie...

Author: Marc Dominicy ,  Michele Monte
ISBN: 9782406131274
Format: Hardback
$266.64

La Parole du poeme offers a methodical journey across the enunciative relations that structure a poem and guide...  Read More >>

Litterature Urbaine: Donnee Culturelle Medievale Ou Concept de l'Histoire Litteraire?

Litterature Urbaine: Donnee Culturelle Medievale Ou...

Author: Ludmilla Evdokimova ,  Francoise Laurent
ISBN: 9782406132493
Format: Hardback
$232.32

Far from simply reflecting the image of cities, urban literature originates from an earlier tradition and, at the...  Read More >>

Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation

Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation...

Author: Cian Duffy ,  Robert W. Rix
ISBN: 9783030991265
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation is an edited collection exploring the varied and complex...  Read More >>

Learning the Secrets of English Verse: The Keys to the Treasure Chest

Learning the Secrets of English Verse: The Keys to the...

Author: David J. Rothman ,  Susan Delaney Spear
ISBN: 9783030530952
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This textbook teaches the writing of poetry by examining all the major verse forms and repeating stanza forms in...  Read More >>

The Shakespearean Forest

The Shakespearean Forest

Author: Anne Barton
ISBN: 9781009226684
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Anne Barton's final book uncovers woodland's persistent imaginative power in renaissance drama. Paying close attention...  Read More >>

Hölderlin and the Consequences: An Essay on the German 'Poet of Poets'

Hölderlin and the Consequences: An Essay on the German...

Author: Rüdiger Görner
ISBN: 9783476058201
Format: Paperback
$85.36

"Rüdiger Görner presents this complex context as a special case in recent literary history. This book is a translation...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics...

Author: Paul Crosthwaite (University of Edinburgh) ,  Peter Knight (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781009012997
Format: Paperback
$56.90

This Companion provides students and researchers with a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist

The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist,...

Author: Margaret C. Jones
ISBN: 9781350293953
Format: Paperback
$32.99

In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her...  Read More >>

The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought

The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought...

Author: Jonathan Morton (Tulane University, Louisiana) ,  Marco Nievergelt (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781108443197
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Focusing on one of the most influential poems in the European literary tradition, this collection brings together...  Read More >>

Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth

Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth...

Author: Daniel DiMassa
ISBN: 9781684484195
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Shows how Dante’s Divine Comedy shaped the development of German Romanticism. The book argues that the weight of...  Read More >>

A Guide to a Visible Man: A Memoir

A Guide to a Visible Man: A Memoir

Author: William R Twitchell
ISBN: 9798351851082
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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The Enlightened Mind: Education in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Enlightened Mind: Education in the Long Eighteenth...

Author: Amanda Strasik
ISBN: 9781648895142
Format: Paperback
$219.12

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The Quotation Bank: A Streetcar Named Desire A-Level Revision and Study Guide for English Literature

The Quotation Bank: A Streetcar Named Desire A-Level...

Author: Elaine McNally ,  The Quotation Bank
ISBN: 9781999981686
Format: Paperback
$17.98

An English Literature A-Level Study and Revision Guide, providing key quotations with accompanying interpretations,...  Read More >>

The Quotation Bank: The Great Gatsby A-Level Revision and Study Guide for English Literature

The Quotation Bank: The Great Gatsby A-Level Revision...

Author: Davina Canham ,  The Quotation Bank
ISBN: 9781999981679
Format: Paperback
$17.98

An English Literature A-Level Study and Revision Guide, providing key quotations with accompanying interpretations,...  Read More >>

Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction

Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular...

Author: Rebekah Cumpsty
ISBN: 9781032231655
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is the first full length study of the postsecular in African literature It explores how postsecular negotiations...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Mario Perniola: From Aesthetics to Dandyism

The Philosophy of Mario Perniola: From Aesthetics to...

Author: Dr Enea Bianchi (University of Galway, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350281479
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Enea Bianchi provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering thought of 20th-century Italian philosopher,...  Read More >>

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