Literary studies: general books

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A Concordance to Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands

A Concordance to Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands...

Author: Todd K. Bender
ISBN: 9780367895228
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1984, this volume falls in to three parts: the verbal index, the word frequency table, and...  Read More >>

A Concordance to Conrad's The Arrow of Gold

A Concordance to Conrad's The Arrow of Gold

Author: Paul L. Gaston ,  Todd K. Bender
ISBN: 9780367862633
Format: Paperback
$67.99

First published in 1981, this concordance can afford particular benefits to the critic and textual scholar because...  Read More >>

Untimely Passages: Dossiers from the Other Shore

Untimely Passages: Dossiers from the Other Shore

Author: Jerry Zaslove
ISBN: 9781772012606
Format: Paperback
$54.99

The essays of Untimely Passages emerge from years of reading, writing, and teaching through the exemplary controversies,...  Read More >>

Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150–1200

Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism,...

Author: Heather Blurton ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812253924
Format: Hardback
$158.27

William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming...  Read More >>

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Pembroke College, Cambridge

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts...

Author: Rodney M Thomson
ISBN: 9781783274550
Format: Hardback
$245.81

The collection of medieval manuscripts at Pembroke College is an important one. Its most striking feature is that...  Read More >>

Studies in Medievalism XXXI: Politics and Medievalism (Studies) III

Studies in Medievalism XXXI: Politics and Medievalism...

Author: Karl Fugelso (Author) ,  Elizabeth Emery (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843846253
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims.  Read More >>

The Politics of Language: Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform

The Politics of Language: Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the...

Author: Rebecca Stephenson
ISBN: 9781487547479
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Comparing works by the two most prolific authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Ælfric of Eynsham, Rebecca...  Read More >>

Poetik Des Aufschubs: Augustinus, Dante Und Die Antiken Klassiker in Petrarcas 'Canzoniere'

Poetik Des Aufschubs: Augustinus, Dante Und Die Antiken...

Author: Gerhard Regn
ISBN: 9783825349394
Format: Hardback
$205.92

Die vorliegende Studie interpretiert Petrarcas Lyrikbuch als augustinische Konfession. Im Unterschied zu den 'Bekenntnissen'...  Read More >>

Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction

Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction...

Author: Ferdâ Asya
ISBN: 9783030527440
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton’s widely celebrated and less-known...  Read More >>

Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

Author: Prof James Hodapp (Northwestern University, Qatar)
ISBN: 9781501373411
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Graphic narratives are one of the world’s great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United...  Read More >>

The Politics of Literary Prestige: Prizes and Spanish American Literature

The Politics of Literary Prestige: Prizes and Spanish...

Author: Dr Sarah E.L. Bowskill (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
ISBN: 9781501350771
Format: Hardback
$190.00

"""Analyses the relationship between literary prizes, politics and the reception of literature in Spanish America""--"...  Read More >>

Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Origins of an Icon of the American Right

Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Origins...

Author: Professor Derek Offord
ISBN: 9781350283954
Format: Hardback
$100.00

This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas...  Read More >>

Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures

Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual...

Author: Dr Edward King
ISBN: 9781350169159
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked...  Read More >>

Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy

Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy

Author: Dr Sarah Olsen (Williams College, USA) ,  Professor Mario Telò (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ISBN: 9781350249622
Format: Hardback
$160.00

"This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens...  Read More >>

The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption

The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture...

Author: Andrew Ball ,  Emma Mason (University of Warwick UK)
ISBN: 9781350231672
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Examining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides...  Read More >>

George Berkeley and Romanticism: Ghostly Language

George Berkeley and Romanticism: Ghostly Language

Author: Chris Townsend (Teaching Officer in English, Christ's College, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780192846785
Format: Hardback
$175.95

A study of philosopher George Berkeley's influence on British Romantic poetry, and especially the works of William...  Read More >>

Liberalism and Education: The Monopoly of an Idea

Liberalism and Education: The Monopoly of an Idea

Author: Professor Francis O'Gorman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781501336799
Format: Hardback
$29.99

Liberalism and Education examines the damaging consequences of a liberalism that seems almost obligatory within...  Read More >>

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Author: Jason König (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Nicolas Wiater (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781316516683
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and...  Read More >>

Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/native

Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/native

Author: Sonita Sarker (Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and English, Macalester College)
ISBN: 9780192849960
Format: Hardback
$175.95

Addresses questions of belonging, nativism, and nationalism in the writings of six early twentieth-century women...  Read More >>

Don't Be a Stranger: Russian Literature and the Perils of Not Fitting In

Don't Be a Stranger: Russian Literature and the Perils...

Author: Jason Galie
ISBN: 9781644697726
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This study explores the consequences of being marked an outsider in the Russian-speaking world through a close study...  Read More >>

The Owl and the Nightingale: And the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)

The Owl and the Nightingale: And the English Poems of...

Author: Susanna Fein ,  Susanna Fein
ISBN: 9781580445214
Format: Hardback
$340.56

An edition and accompanying translation of this late C13th anthology of early Middle English verse.  In addition...  Read More >>

Rosenplutsche Fastnachtspiele: Edition Und Kommentar Von Nurnberger Spieltexten Des 15. Jahrhunderts (Einschliesslich Der Fastnachtspiele in Der Handschrift Dresden, Slub, Mscr.Dresd.M.183)

Rosenplutsche Fastnachtspiele: Edition Und Kommentar...

Author: Klaus Ridder ,  Rebekka Nocker
ISBN: 9783757400248
Format: Hardback
$496.32

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Fruhe Tiroler Fastnachtspiele

Fruhe Tiroler Fastnachtspiele

Author: Patrizia Barton ,  Beatrice Von Lupke
ISBN: 9783757400774
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Der Band bietet eine kommentierte Neuedition von vier Tiroler Fastnachtspielen des 15. Jahrhunderts: Tanawaschel,...  Read More >>

Magie und Metapher bei Clemens J. Setz: Poetologie seiner Romane aus kognitionsästhetischer Perspektive

Magie und Metapher bei Clemens J. Setz: Poetologie seiner...

Author: Gesa Steinbrink
ISBN: 9783110773330
Format: Paperback
$68.55

Die Reihe Gegenwartsliteratur - Autoren und Debatten präsentiert konzise Auseinandersetzungen mit vorwiegend deutschsprachiger...  Read More >>

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