Literary studies: general books

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Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History

Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History...

Author: Aaron Turner
ISBN: 9783110995909
Format: Paperback
$51.39

Beyond the disparate observations of Aristotle, Plutarch, and Lucian there survives little documentary evidence...  Read More >>

Theologies from the Pacific

Theologies from the Pacific

Author: Jione Havea
ISBN: 9783030743673
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The final cluster, Routes, places Pasifika theologies upon the waters so that they may navigate and voyage.The ‘amanaki...  Read More >>

Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present

Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from...

Author: N. Buket Cengiz
ISBN: 9783030612238
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present analyses the representation of rural...  Read More >>

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700: Angles of Contingency

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700:...

Author: Ingo Berensmeyer
ISBN: 9783110995176
Format: Paperback
$42.81

This book explores English literary culture between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic,...  Read More >>

Performativität und Rhetorik der Redlichkeit: Nietzsche – Kleist – Kafka – Lasker-Schüler

Performativität und Rhetorik der Redlichkeit: Nietzsche...

Author: Nina Tolksdorf
ISBN: 9783110992588
Format: Paperback
$42.81

As the understanding of subject and language changed in the 19th and 20th centuries, the concept of sincerity became...  Read More >>

Wissenschaften vom Imaginären: Sammeln, Sehen, Lesen und Experimentieren bei Roger Caillois und Elias Canetti

Wissenschaften vom Imaginären: Sammeln, Sehen, Lesen...

Author: Elisabeth Heyne
ISBN: 9783110992199
Format: Paperback
$59.97

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Amphiaraus: Ritual und Schwelle in Statius’ ›Thebais‹

Amphiaraus: Ritual und Schwelle in Statius’ ›Thebais‹...

Author: Nils Jäger
ISBN: 9783110995077
Format: Paperback
$42.81

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Der Anthropos im Anthropozän: Die Wiederkehr des Menschen im Moment seiner vermeintlich endgültigen Verabschiedung

Der Anthropos im Anthropozän: Die Wiederkehr des Menschen...

Author: Hannes Bajohr
ISBN: 9783110995435
Format: Paperback
$42.81

"The term ""anthropocene"" marks the return of the term ""human"", long discredited in the wake of poststructuralism,...  Read More >>

Das französische Chanson: Genre und Mythos

Das französische Chanson: Genre und Mythos

Author: Juliane Ebert
ISBN: 9783110995084
Format: Paperback
$34.23

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Prudentius, ›Psychomachia‹: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar

Prudentius, ›Psychomachia‹: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung...

Author: Magnus Frisch
ISBN: 9783110991512
Format: Paperback
$59.97

Prudentius' Psychomachia is the first fully allegorical epic in the Western tradition. It was an especially important...  Read More >>

The Partisan Counter-Archive: Retracing the Ruptures of Art and Memory in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle

The Partisan Counter-Archive: Retracing the Ruptures...

Author: Gal Kirn
ISBN: 9783110994957
Format: Paperback
$42.81

This book presents artworks from the WWII Yugoslav partisan struggle and later socialist periods. It posits the...  Read More >>

After Postmodernism

After Postmodernism

Author: Wang Ning ,  Wang Ning
ISBN: 9781032284392
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Kulturtopographie des deutschsprachigen Südwestens im späteren Mittelalter: Studien und Texte

Kulturtopographie des deutschsprachigen Südwestens im...

Author: Barbara Fleith ,  René Wetzel
ISBN: 9783110995473
Format: Paperback
$51.39

Literary historians, paleographers and historians use case studies to discuss ways in which an approach based on...  Read More >>

Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend

Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend

Author: Dr Katherine Marie Olley
ISBN: 9781843846376
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded...  Read More >>

The History of Lady Louisa Stroud, and the Honourable Miss Caroline Stretton: by Phebe Gibbes

The History of Lady Louisa Stroud, and the Honourable...

Author: Mike Franklin
ISBN: 9781032002279
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This new edition of this British epistolary novel examines the theme of female agency, and is an excellent example...  Read More >>

The Waste Land after One Hundred Years

The Waste Land after One Hundred Years

Author: Professor Steven Matthews ,  Professor Steven Matthews
ISBN: 9781843846369
Format: Hardback
$103.50

An exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact...  Read More >>

Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts

Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts

Author: Dr Elizabeth Marshall ,  Dr. Michael Bintley (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843846406
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A fresh and sympathetic investigation of the depiction of wolves in early medieval literature, recuperating their...  Read More >>

Melville’s Other Lives: Bodies on Trial in The Piazza Tales

Melville’s Other Lives: Bodies on Trial in The Piazza...

Author: Christopher Sten
ISBN: 9780813945439
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Provides the first book-length study of The Piazza Tales - Herman Melville’s only authorized collection of short...  Read More >>

L’ ›Ermotimo‹ di Luciano: Introduzione, traduzione e commento

L’ ›Ermotimo‹ di Luciano: Introduzione, traduzione e...

Author: Michele Solitario
ISBN: 9783110991987
Format: Paperback
$59.97

Unlike most of Lucian's satirical dialogues, Hermotimus pursues a rather serious theoretical question: which are...  Read More >>

Handbuch Chroniken des Mittelalters

Handbuch Chroniken des Mittelalters

Author: Gerhard Wolf ,  Norbert H. Ott
ISBN: 9783110995497
Format: Paperback
$77.13

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Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Hannah Walser
ISBN: 9781503630079
Format: Hardback
$120.95

Novels are often said to help us understand how others think-especially when those others are profoundly different...  Read More >>

The Essential Isocrates

The Essential Isocrates

Author: Jon D. Mikalson
ISBN: 9781477325520
Format: Hardback
$88.00

""The book is mostly the author's translations of various passages from Isocrates, with some added commentary, selected...  Read More >>

German #MeToo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020

German #MeToo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020...

Author: Elisabeth Krimmer (Series Editor) ,  Professor Patricia Anne Simpson (Customer)
ISBN: 9781640141353
Format: Hardback
$422.40

This volume of new essays represents a collective, academic, and activist effort to interpret German literature...  Read More >>

Thinking Narratively: Between Novel-Essay and Narrative Essay

Thinking Narratively: Between Novel-Essay and Narrative...

Author: Massimo Fusillo ,  Gianluigi Simonetti
ISBN: 9783110764048
Format: Hardback
$125.18

What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible...  Read More >>

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