Literary studies: general books

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Conversations with Billy Collins

Conversations with Billy Collins

Author: John Cusatis
ISBN: 9781496840660
Format: Hardback
$159.50

Over the course of the twenty-one interviews included in the volume, Billy Collins discusses such topics as discovering...  Read More >>

Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry

Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry...

Author: Jane Tolmie ,  Frederick Luis Aldama
ISBN: 9781496839794
Format: Hardback
$159.50

The essays in Contagious Imagination study the pedagogy of Lynda Barry’s work and its application academically and...  Read More >>

Start a Riot!: Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry

Start a Riot!: Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama,...

Author: Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani
ISBN: 9781496840455
Format: Hardback
$159.50

Analyses riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach...  Read More >>

The Foreign Connection: Writings on Poetry, Art and Translation

The Foreign Connection: Writings on Poetry, Art and...

Author: Jamie McKendrick
ISBN: 9781781885048
Format: Paperback
$34.91

The word 'foreign' has gathered hostile associations but its Latin root - foris: a door - is close to the spirit...  Read More >>

Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Literature, Doctrine, Reality

Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Literature, Doctrine, Reality...

Author: Zygmunt G Barański
ISBN: 9781781888803
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the three crowns of Italian literature, dealt with literature, doctrine, and reality...  Read More >>

Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture: Pressing for Change

Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture:...

Author: Cláudia Pazos Alonso
ISBN: 9781781888001
Format: Paperback
$31.02

This monograph offers the first full-length account of the political intervention of the nineteenth-century journalist,...  Read More >>

Naturalism Against Nature: Kinship and Degeneracy in Fin-de-siècle Portugal and Brazil

Naturalism Against Nature: Kinship and Degeneracy in...

Author: David J Bailey
ISBN: 9781781885284
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Querying the widespread view that Naturalist literatures reinforced widespread prejudices, David J. Bailey charts...  Read More >>

Cortázar and Music

Cortázar and Music

Author: Nicholas Roberts
ISBN: 9781781888087
Format: Paperback
$34.91

Music pervades the work of the Argentine author Julio Cortázar (1914-1984). From the classical strains of a Mozart...  Read More >>

Italy and the USA: Cultural Change Through Language and Narrative

Italy and the USA: Cultural Change Through Language...

Author: Guido Bonsaver ,  Alessandro Carlucci
ISBN: 9781781888766
Format: Paperback
$34.91

This collection takes a cross-disciplinary, transnational approach and gathers together essays from a range of subjects...  Read More >>

Women, Men and Books: Issues of Gender in Yiddish Discourse

Women, Men and Books: Issues of Gender in Yiddish Discourse...

Author: Gennady Estraikh ,  Mikhail Krutikov
ISBN: 9781781885789
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Yiddish literature is commonly perceived as a gendered cultural space, as neatly summarised by the line 'Story books...  Read More >>

12 SCARY Wendigo Encounters: Creepy Skinwalker Sighting Horror Stories

12 SCARY Wendigo Encounters: Creepy Skinwalker Sighting...

Author: Blaire Peterson
ISBN: 9798848202519
Format: Paperback
$21.86

This is a fifth book in our series of scary wendigo and skinwalker encounter horror stories. All accounts of individuals...  Read More >>

Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company

Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Maria-Mercè...

Author: Natasha Tanna
ISBN: 9781781888124
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End

Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End...

Author: Diana Maltz
ISBN: 9780367860226
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End throws fresh new light on this innovative novelist of poverty...  Read More >>

Danish literature from 1000 to 1900

Danish literature from 1000 to 1900

Author:
ISBN: 9788740831009
Format: Paperback
$69.22

Danish literature from 1000 to 1900 is an account of Danish literature from the earliest period to the modern breakthrough...  Read More >>

Seneca: De Beneficiis (L. Annaei Senecae De beneficiis: Libri VII, De clementia: Libri II, Apocolocyntosis)

Seneca: De Beneficiis (L. Annaei Senecae De beneficiis:...

Author: Robert A. Kaster (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780198850731
Format: Hardback
$121.59

This is the first new critical edition of Seneca's De Beneficiis in almost 100 years. Robert A. Kaster provides...  Read More >>

Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes

Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston...

Author: Langston Hughes ,  Christopher C. De Santis (Professor, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Illinois State University)
ISBN: 9780192855046
Format: Hardback
$89.24

A chronological collection of interviews with, and speeches by, the writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) who emerged...  Read More >>

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 61

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 61

Author: Victor Caston (Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies, Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies, University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780192864949
Format: Hardback
$222.53

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The...  Read More >>

The Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation: A Critical Edition from Oxford, MS Bodley 220

The Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation:...

Author: Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa (Professor in Medieval English Literature and Culture, Shizuoka University (Japan)) ,  Anne Mouron (Research Associate, Regents Park College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781800856332
Format: Hardback
$514.80

The Boke of Gostely Grace is the anonymous Middle English version of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary...  Read More >>

Globalizing Fortune on The Early Modern Stage

Globalizing Fortune on The Early Modern Stage

Author: Jane Hwang Degenhardt (Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
ISBN: 9780198867920
Format: Hardback
$212.18

Explores the theme of fortune in early modern plays within the context of England's mercantile and colonial ventures,...  Read More >>

Translating Petrarch's Poetry: L'Aura del Petrarca from the Quattrocento to the 21st Century

Translating Petrarch's Poetry: L'Aura del Petrarca from...

Author: Carole Birkan-Berz ,  Guillaume Coatalen
ISBN: 9781781886649
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Petrarch is arguably the most influential poet in Western culture. Ranging through five centuries of translations,...  Read More >>

Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714

Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714...

Author: Thomas McGeary
ISBN: 9781783277155
Format: Hardback
$284.63

Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences...  Read More >>

SOMMAIRE de Le code de l'obesite: Deverrouiller les secrets de la perte de poids Par Dr. Jason Fung

SOMMAIRE de Le code de l'obesite: Deverrouiller les...

Author: Ipress Books
ISBN: 9798848050646
Format: Paperback
$15.29

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Jewish Lesbian Scholarship in a Time of Change

Jewish Lesbian Scholarship in a Time of Change

Author: Marla Brettschneider (University of New Hampshire)
ISBN: 9780367690861
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Correcting a twenty-first century shift away from explicitly feminist investigations in Jewish queer and LBGTQ studies,...  Read More >>

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