Literary studies: general books

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A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books: Arabic Manuscripts Among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia

A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books: Arabic Manuscripts...

Author: Olly Akkerman
ISBN: 9781474479561
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Explores communities, manuscripts and their spaces of dwelling  Read More >>

The Origins of Russian Literary Theory: Folklore, Philology, Form

The Origins of Russian Literary Theory: Folklore, Philology,...

Author: Jessica Merrill
ISBN: 9780810144910
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Reconstructs lost Formalist theories of authorship, of the psychology of narrative structure, and of the social...  Read More >>

Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature

Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Cristina Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780813948065
Format: Paperback
$104.28

In this book about immigrants, writing, and place, Cristina Rodriguez walks neighbourhood streets, talks to immigrants,...  Read More >>

Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism

Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism

Author: Amy Feinstein
ISBN: 9780813068756
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage...  Read More >>

The American Western in Canadian Literature

The American Western in Canadian Literature

Author: Joel Deshaye
ISBN: 9781773852676
Format: Paperback
$82.67

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The Slave Sublime: The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music

The Slave Sublime: The Language of Violence in Caribbean...

Author: Stacy J. Lettman
ISBN: 9781469668086
Format: Paperback
$63.80

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican...  Read More >>

Conversations with George Saunders

Conversations with George Saunders

Author: Michael O'Connell
ISBN: 9781496840301
Format: Paperback
$42.90

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Reading Mawsim al-Hijra ilā al-Shamāl: For Students of Arabic

Reading Mawsim al-Hijra ilā al-Shamāl: For Students...

Author: Ahmad Alswaid ,  Munther Younes (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032222998
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Reading Mawsim al-Hijra ilā al-Shamāl: For Students of Arabic is intended for advanced students of Arabic who have...  Read More >>

Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings: Tensions in English, French and German Language Fiction

Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings: Tensions...

Author: Julia Wurr
ISBN: 9781474488006
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Provides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary market  Read More >>

Mary Wollstonecraft: Cosmopolitan

Mary Wollstonecraft: Cosmopolitan

Author: Laura Kirkley
ISBN: 9781399503099
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Redefines Mary Wollstonecraft as a multi-lingual cosmopolitan.  Read More >>

British Romanticism and Denmark

British Romanticism and Denmark

Author: Cian Duffy
ISBN: 9781474498227
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Traces a multifaceted discourse about Denmark in British eighteenth-century and Romantic-period culture.  Read More >>

Asbestos   the Last Modernist Object

Asbestos the Last Modernist Object

Author: Arthur Rose
ISBN: 9781474482424
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Presents the first extended account of asbestos in literature, film and visual culture.  Read More >>

Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934: The Ghosts of World War One

Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934:...

Author: Andrew Smith
ISBN: 9781474443432
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War One.  Read More >>

(P)Rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship

(P)Rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction...

Author: Stephanie Peebles Tavera
ISBN: 9781474493192
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Examines how women writers of medical fiction rewrite cultural narratives of the female body against censorship...  Read More >>

Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1914

Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals,...

Author: Michelle Smith
ISBN: 9781474470094
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The first comprehensive account of female beauty in nineteenth-century British print culture.  Read More >>

Conversations with Goethe

Conversations with Goethe

Author: Johann Peter Eckermann ,  Allan Blunden
ISBN: 9780241421673
Format: Paperback
$22.99

""By the end of the nineteenth century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated poet, novelist,...  Read More >>

Study Guide for Book Clubs: The Lincoln Highway

Study Guide for Book Clubs: The Lincoln Highway

Author: Kathryn Cope
ISBN: 9798201770921
Format: Paperback
$24.56

Looking to improve your book club discussions? Wish you had time to prepare for your reading group meetings more...  Read More >>

Anfange Der Globalisierung: Macht Und Mythos in Epischen Anfangskonstruktionen Bei Ovid, Milton Und Kubrick

Anfange Der Globalisierung: Macht Und Mythos in Epischen...

Author: Philipp Stelzer
ISBN: 9783770567324
Format: Paperback
$372.24

Unlike any other literary genre, epic constitutes a historically deep archive of global imaginations and narratives....  Read More >>

Die Scham Der Aufklarung: Zur Sozialethischen Produktivkraft Einer Emotion in Der Literarischen Kultur Des 18. Jahrhunderts

Die Scham Der Aufklarung: Zur Sozialethischen Produktivkraft...

Author: Christian Sieg
ISBN: 9783770567461
Format: Paperback
$237.60

Sieg reveals the relevance of shame for the culture of the Enlightenment and argues for a reassessment of this emotion....  Read More >>

The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel

The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in...

Author: Ofra Amihay
ISBN: 9780815637455
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors....  Read More >>

The New View from Cane River: "Critical Essays on Kate Chopin's ""At Fault"

The New View from Cane River: "Critical Essays on Kate...

Author: Heather Ostman
ISBN: 9780807177334
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin’s first novel, At Fault. The...  Read More >>

Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century

Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First...

Author: Theresa M. Towner
ISBN: 9780813948294
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Examines Faulkner’s characters, events, locations, and visualizations, as well as offering more theoretical reflections...  Read More >>

Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.

Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.

Author: Donna Krolik Hollenberg
ISBN: 9780472133017
Format: Hardback
$224.40

H.D.’s friends and lovers were a veritable Who’s Who of modernism. Hollenberg gives us a glimpse into H.D.’s relationships...  Read More >>

Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World

Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the...

Author: Maurice Ebileeni
ISBN: 9780815637653
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Calls for a renewed definition of Palestinian writing, one that includes Anglophone, Nordic, Latinate, and Hebrew...  Read More >>

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