Literary studies: general books

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Leonardo Sciascia the Man and the Writer

Leonardo Sciascia the Man and the Writer

Author: Joseph Farrell
ISBN: 9788822268211
Format: Paperback
$102.96

"Restlessness of imagination and intellect in a writer can damage his standing with critics, but Sciascia's insatiable...  Read More >>

Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond

Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond

Author: Namrata Pathak (North-Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya, India) ,  Dibyajyoti Sarma (Independent researcher, Delhi, India)
ISBN: 9780367705466
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book engages with the life and works of Indira Goswami, the first Assamese woman writer to win the highest...  Read More >>

American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828

American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828

Author: William Huntting Howell (Boston University) ,  Greta LaFleur (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781108475860
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This volume presents a complex portrait of a US grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Subjects include:...  Read More >>

Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition

Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond...

Author: Hilary Brown (Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780192844347
Format: Hardback
$200.95

A fresh perspective on women translators in the early modern period, with particular focus on the relatively underexplored...  Read More >>

Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture

Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature,...

Author: Carolin Duttlinger (Professor of German Literature and Culture, University of Oxford; Fellow of Wadham College Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192856302
Format: Hardback
$259.95

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study traces the intertwined histories of attention and distraction from the...  Read More >>

Irish Culture and “The People”: Populism and its Discontents

Irish Culture and “The People”: Populism and its Discontents...

Author: Seamus O'Malley (Associate Professor of English, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University)
ISBN: 9780192858412
Format: Hardback
$200.95

This study argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Synthesizing existing scholarship...  Read More >>

Foundational African Writers

Foundational African Writers

Author: Bhekizizwe Peterson ,  Khwezi Mkhize
ISBN: 9781776147519
Format: Paperback
$72.42

A collection of essays celebrating the centenaries of Peter Abrahams,...  Read More >>

Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics

Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature:...

Author: Ari Friedlander (Assistant Professor of English, University of Mississippi)
ISBN: 9780192863171
Format: Hardback
$175.95

Discusses the way that the figure of the rogue persistently conflates sexual and social deviance, and argues that...  Read More >>

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary...

Author: Roger Bromley
ISBN: 9783030735982
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on...  Read More >>

Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

Author: Caroline Franklin
ISBN: 9780367758356
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this edition of Celia in Search of a Husband contributes to this...  Read More >>

Heinrich Mann-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung

Heinrich Mann-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung

Author: Andrea Bartl ,  Ariane Martin
ISBN: 9783476058072
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Gerade in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren ist er ein vielbeachteter Essayist und Publizist, der – als überzeugter Europäer...  Read More >>

Antigone's Example: Early Modern Women's Political Writing in Times of Civil War from Christine de Pizan to Helen Maria Williams

Antigone's Example: Early Modern Women's Political Writing...

Author: Mihoko Suzuki
ISBN: 9783030844547
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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Paper Crusade

Paper Crusade

Author: Michelle Penn
ISBN: 9781913665678
Format: Paperback
$25.85

aper Crusade is a bold reinvention of Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. Michelle Penn’s vivid imagery and startling,...  Read More >>

Anthropocene Ecologies of Food: Notes from the Global South

Anthropocene Ecologies of Food: Notes from the Global...

Author: Simon C. Estok ,  S. Susan Deborah
ISBN: 9781032254012
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Anthropocene Ecologies of Food provides a detailed exploration of cross-cultural aspects of food production, culinary...  Read More >>

Genres of Privacy in Postwar America

Genres of Privacy in Postwar America

Author: Palmer Rampell
ISBN: 9781503631892
Format: Paperback
$57.95

With this incisive work, Palmer Rampell reveals the surprising role genre fiction played in redefining the category...  Read More >>

Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media

Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media...

Author: Jacob Edmond
ISBN: 9780231190039
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive...  Read More >>

Ovid in China: Reception, Translation, and Comparison

Ovid in China: Reception, Translation, and Comparison...

Author: Thomas J. Sienkewicz ,  Jinyu Liu
ISBN: 9789004467279
Format: Hardback
$472.56

This collection of essays, unquestionably a first of its kind, examines the challenges of translating Ovid into...  Read More >>

A Dish of Orts Annotated Edition: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare

A Dish of Orts Annotated Edition: Chiefly Papers on...

Author: George MacDonald ,  C M Alvarez
ISBN: 9781953279026
Format: Hardback
$59.49

"About A Dish of Orts Read the thoughts of the man who influenced three generations of philosophers and writers....  Read More >>

The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka

The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka

Author: Aldon Lynn Nielsen
ISBN: 9783030757601
Format: Paperback
$142.29

The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka examines the full length of Baraka’s discography as a poet recording with musicians...  Read More >>

Die Helfer der Vernunft: Scham und verwandte Emotionen bei Platon

Die Helfer der Vernunft: Scham und verwandte Emotionen...

Author: Lijuan Lin
ISBN: 9783110759662
Format: Hardback
$197.25

"Ever since Dodd applied the concept of ""shame culture"" to Greek culture, Greek studies scholars have been paying...  Read More >>

The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation

The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth...

Author: Alexis Weedon
ISBN: 9783030724788
Format: Paperback
$155.22

This book explores the significance of professional writers and their role in developing British storytelling in...  Read More >>

Homer: Iliad Book I

Homer: Iliad Book I

Author: Seth L. Schein (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9781108412964
Format: Paperback
$51.72

An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the opening book of Homer's Iliad. Provides...  Read More >>

Critical Theory and Dystopia

Critical Theory and Dystopia

Author: Patricia McManus (Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural History)
ISBN: 9781526139733
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both...  Read More >>

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