Literary studies: general books

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James Joyce’s Mandala

James Joyce’s Mandala

Author: Colm O’Shea
ISBN: 9781032076775
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce’s work with the mythic structure of the mandala, using his “collideorscape”...  Read More >>

Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism

Author: Dr. Mark Steven (Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature, University of Exeter, UK) ,  Laci Mattison (Florida Gulf Coast University USA)
ISBN: 9781501372308
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""Explores and illuminates Karl Marx's profound influence on literary modernism""--"  Read More >>

Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture

Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in...

Author: Dr Nicola Bishop (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350228047
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class...  Read More >>

Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet

Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon,...

Author: Professor Ziad Elmarsafy (University of York, UK) ,  Emma Mason (University of Warwick UK)
ISBN: 9781350200180
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Focussing on the many exchanges and the rich relationships that these intersections have created from the modernist...  Read More >>

Writing Queer Identities in Morocco: Abdellah Taïa and Moroccan Committed Literature

Writing Queer Identities in Morocco: Abdellah Taïa and...

Author: Tina Dransfeldt Christensen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9780755637706
Format: Paperback
$61.99

First monograph on Abdellah Ta�a, leading Moroccan novelist and LGBT activist  Read More >>

Reading the Modernist Long Poem: John Cage, Charles Olson and the Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics

Reading the Modernist Long Poem: John Cage, Charles...

Author: Dr. Brendan C. Gillott (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781501371899
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""Outlines the role of 'indeterminacy' in reading modernist long poems by way of the longform poetry of John Cage...  Read More >>

Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy

Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy

Author: Prof Orrin N. C. Wang (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
ISBN: 9781501372209
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""A collection of essays on Frankenstein written by distinguished and younger scholars of Romantic studies, utilizing...  Read More >>

On the Digital Semiosphere: Culture, Media and Science for the Anthropocene

On the Digital Semiosphere: Culture, Media and Science...

Author: Prof. John Hartley ,  Professor Indrek Ibrus
ISBN: 9781501369216
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""A new approach to digital culture and how it makes meaning, mediation and planetary impact""--"  Read More >>

The Translator’s Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction

The Translator’s Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary...

Author: Professor or Dr. Heather Cleary (Sarah Lawrence College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501373459
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""At the juncture of translation theory and literary criticism, The Translator's Visibility reveals the radical...  Read More >>

Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century

Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic...

Author: Dr Jonathan Greenaway (University of Chester, UK)
ISBN: 9781501371356
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""This theological reading of canonical texts of the 19th-century Gothic posits the religious themes of the Gothic...  Read More >>

Turkish Literature as World Literature

Turkish Literature as World Literature

Author: Dr. Burcu Alkan (Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester, UK) ,  Dr. Çimen Günay-Erkol (Assistant Professor, Özyegin University, Turkey)
ISBN: 9781501371639
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""Examines the impact of modern Turkish literature on the literatures of the world through discussions of translation...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Claire Preston (Professor of Renaissance Literature, Professor of Renaissance Literature, Queen Mary University of London)
ISBN: 9780192867032
Format: Paperback
$67.95

This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally,...  Read More >>

Teaching Literature in Translation: Pedagogical Contexts and Reading Practices

Teaching Literature in Translation: Pedagogical Contexts...

Author: Brian James Baer (Kent State University, USA) ,  Michelle Woods (State University of New York, New Paltz)
ISBN: 9780367613297
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume presents a variety of pedagogical approaches to promote translation literacy and to address the distinct...  Read More >>

Fantasies of the Bookstore

Fantasies of the Bookstore

Author: Eben J. Muse (Bangor University)
ISBN: 9781108445399
Format: Paperback
$32.32

This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through...  Read More >>

Temerity & Gall

Temerity & Gall

Author: John Metcalf
ISBN: 9781771964494
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Metcalf's short story collections have received an NYTBR Notable Book of the Year, starred reviews and raves in...  Read More >>

Feminism and Modernity in Anglophone African Women’s Writing: A 21st-Century Global Context

Feminism and Modernity in Anglophone African Women’s...

Author: Dobrota Pucherová
ISBN: 9781032187273
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women’s writing from a transnational and trans-historical...  Read More >>

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

Author: Tom Sandercock
ISBN: 9781032127286
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant...  Read More >>

Teaching Asian North American Texts

Teaching Asian North American Texts

Author: Jennifer Ho ,  Jenny Heijun Wills
ISBN: 9781603295642
Format: Paperback
$64.90

The essays in this volume provide context for understanding the history of Asian immigrants to the United States...  Read More >>

Fechsung

Fechsung

Author: Peter Altenberg
ISBN: 9789356373846
Format: Paperback
$28.95

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we...  Read More >>

Neues Altes

Neues Altes

Author: Peter Altenberg
ISBN: 9789356373921
Format: Paperback
$23.31

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we...  Read More >>

Narrenworte Spricht Der Narr: Sprichworter in Erasmus' Lob Der Torheit

Narrenworte Spricht Der Narr: Sprichworter in Erasmus'...

Author: Claude-Eric Descoudres
ISBN: 9783796546846
Format: Paperback
$87.12

Michel de Montaigne, einer von vielen, die die Werke des Erasmus von Rotterdam in den nachfolgenden Jahrhunderten...  Read More >>

The Syon Pardon Treatise: Edited from London, British Library, MS Harley 2321

The Syon Pardon Treatise: Edited from London, British...

Author: Kari Anne Rand
ISBN: 9783825349745
Format: Paperback
$147.84

'The Syon Pardon Treatise' in London, BL, MS Harley 2321 is a Birgittine text from the second half of the fifteenth...  Read More >>

Synopsis of Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work.

Synopsis of Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women...

Author: Jessica P McDonald
ISBN: 9798848478419
Format: Paperback
$24.04

THIS IS NOT A BOOK BY DEBORAH LIU, NOR IS IT AFFILIATED WITH THEM. IT IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION THAT SUMMARIZES...  Read More >>

Re-Reading the Age of Innovation: Victorians, Moderns, and Literary Newness, 1830-1950

Re-Reading the Age of Innovation: Victorians, Moderns,...

Author: Louise Kane
ISBN: 9781032043593
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Author: Tina Steiner (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) ,  Maria Olaussen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781032258393
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This edited volume provides a wide-ranging introduction to the novelistic oeuvre of the prize-winning author Abdulrazak...  Read More >>

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