Literary studies: general books

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The Aesthetic Border: Colombian Literature in the Face of Globalization

The Aesthetic Border: Colombian Literature in the Face...

Author: Brantley Nicholson
ISBN: 9781684483662
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Examines how modern Colombian literature - from Gabriel Garcia...  Read More >>

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages

Author: Tanya Pollard (Professor, English Department, Professor, English Department, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9780192871022
Format: Paperback
$76.31

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays reshaped early modern theater. Through...  Read More >>

Thinghood, Ethics, and Black Material Culture: Up From Chattels

Thinghood, Ethics, and Black Material Culture: Up From...

Author: Sandy Alexandre
ISBN: 9781138934757
Format: Hardback
$396.00

"This study looks at the role that fictional and actual material things play in black-American literature and culture....  Read More >>

Editer Les Essais de Montaigne

Editer Les Essais de Montaigne

Author: Andre Tournon
ISBN: 9782406092971
Format: Paperback
$97.68

The history of the published versions of the Essais, from 1595 to the present, is the story of a publishing accident....  Read More >>

La Citation Et l'Art de Citer

La Citation Et l'Art de Citer

Author: Michael Metschies ,  Jules Brody
ISBN: 9782406133285
Format: Paperback
$73.92

With the advent of the Essais, quotation is for the first time called upon to bend itself to help create a new personal...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Elmore Leonard: Conversations with Authors, Experts and Collaborators

Perspectives on Elmore Leonard: Conversations with Authors,...

Author: Andrew J. Rausch
ISBN: 9781476680026
Format: Paperback
$80.30

Elmore Leonard, an American crime novelist, has a voice that is original and immediately recognizable. This collection...  Read More >>

Written under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa

Written under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational...

Author: Carli Coetzee
ISBN: 9781847013248
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship The author uses the image of blood under the skin as...  Read More >>

Editer Les Essais de Montaigne

Editer Les Essais de Montaigne

Author: Andre Tournon
ISBN: 9782812452505
Format: Hardback
$224.40

The history of the published versions of the Essais, from 1595 to the present, is the story of a publishing accident....  Read More >>

La Citation Et l'Art de Citer

La Citation Et l'Art de Citer

Author: Michael Metschies ,  Jules Brody
ISBN: 9782812457203
Format: Hardback
$200.64

With the advent of the Essais, quotation is for the first time called upon to bend itself to help create a new personal...  Read More >>

The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century

The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st...

Author: Anirudh Sridhar ,  Mir Ali Hosseini
ISBN: 9783030711412
Format: Paperback
$336.35

The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments...  Read More >>

Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, Romanticism

Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism,...

Author: Chris Townsend (Christ's College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009222976
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element proposes that the mid-eighteenth-century poet Mark Akenside, and his hugely influential Pleasures of...  Read More >>

Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society: Eve's Sinful Bite

Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society:...

Author: Dr Claudia Bernardi (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) ,  Dr Francesca Calamita (University of Virginia, USA)
ISBN: 9781350189300
Format: Paperback
$61.99

This book explores how women’s relationship with food has been represented in Italian literature, cinema, scientific...  Read More >>

Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-air Performance

Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-air Performance...

Author: Dr Evelyn O'Malley (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350202443
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Winner of the ASLE-UKI 2022 Book Prize From The Pastoral Players’ 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary...  Read More >>

Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism

Author: Professor Robin Truth Goodman (Professor, Florida State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501370311
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""Explores and illuminates Adorno's profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism""--"  Read More >>

Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation

Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation

Author: Dr. Natasha Rulyova (Lecturer in Russian, University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781501369797
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""Uses an archival research method, which has not yet been done in relation to Joseph Brodsky's work, to examine...  Read More >>

Bulgarian Literature as World Literature

Bulgarian Literature as World Literature

Author: Prof Mihaela P. Harper (Bilkent University, Turkey) ,  Prof Dimitar Kambourov (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781501369780
Format: Paperback
$74.99

"""Explores Bulgarian literature's advent from the standpoint of its internal relations to the world""--"  Read More >>

Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings

Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles...

Author: Jan M Ziolkowski
ISBN: 9781800643680
Format: Paperback
$145.07

In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame...  Read More >>

The Concept of the Game in American Literature: True Freedom and a Mistaken Idea of Freedom

The Concept of the Game in American Literature: True...

Author: Sandra Schenk
ISBN: 9783631870174
Format: Hardback
$279.31

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FrC 14 Theopompos

FrC 14 Theopompos

Author: Matthew C Farmer
ISBN: 9783949189395
Format: Hardback
$199.21

Theopompos was one of the leading comic playwrights of late fifth- and early fourth-century Athens, competing actively...  Read More >>

Forgotten Nature

Forgotten Nature

Author: Anton Leander Lilja
ISBN: 9789152732571
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Never have the human mind been as troubled as today, and never have each individual been more insignificant. In...  Read More >>

Entscheidung Zur Heiligkeit?: Autonomie Und Providenz Im Legendarischen Erzahlen Vom Mittelalter Bis Zur Moderne

Entscheidung Zur Heiligkeit?: Autonomie Und Providenz...

Author: Daniela Blum ,  Nicolas Detering
ISBN: 9783825349165
Format: Hardback
$129.36

Der Band verbindet Perspektiven der alteren und neueren Philologien auf die Heiligenlegende, eine der zentralen...  Read More >>

The Wounded

The Wounded

Author: Barbara Taylor Harrison
ISBN: 9798836813949
Format: Paperback
$23.03

THIS IS A BOOK BY BARBARA TAYLOR HARRISON. IT IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION BY BARBARA T. HARRISON Bridget Clements,...  Read More >>

Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings

Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles...

Author: Jan M Ziolkowski
ISBN: 9781800643697
Format: Hardback
$118.90

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Erich Auerbach and the Secular World: Literary Criticism, Historiography, Post-Colonial Theory and Beyond

Erich Auerbach and the Secular World: Literary Criticism,...

Author: Jon Nixon
ISBN: 9780367528386
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century...  Read More >>

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