Literary studies: general books

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Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments

Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish...

Author: Arianna Introna
ISBN: 9783030992729
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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Carl Einstein: Die Fabrikation der Fiktionen: 1. und 2. Fassung

Carl Einstein: Die Fabrikation der Fiktionen: 1. und...

Author: Klaus H. Kiefer
ISBN: 9783662647677
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Die neue Edition von Carl Einsteins unveröffentlichtem Werk Die...  Read More >>

The Reign of Constantine, 306–337: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman Empire

The Reign of Constantine, 306–337: Continuity and Change...

Author: Stanislav Doležal
ISBN: 9783030974633
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306–337) and, more generally, the political history of the...  Read More >>

The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf

The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf

Author: Francis Leneghan (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843846291
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A strikingly original approach to Beowulf, linking its structure to the dynastic life-cycle.  Read More >>

The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England

The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading,...

Author: Professor Laura Saetveit Miles
ISBN: 9781843846284
Format: Paperback
$75.01

Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History Winner of the...  Read More >>

The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish

The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish

Author: Lara A. Dodds
ISBN: 9780271092942
Format: Paperback
$77.99

"""Reassesses the literary invention of Margaret Cavendish -- the use she makes of other writers, her own various...  Read More >>

Forgiving the Gift: The Philosophy of Generosity in Shakespeare and Marlowe

Forgiving the Gift: The Philosophy of Generosity in...

Author: Sean Lawrence
ISBN: 9780271092966
Format: Paperback
$77.99

""Original readings of Dr. Faustus, The Merchant of Venice, Edward II, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and The Tempest,...  Read More >>

On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives

On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives...

Author: Andrew H. Miller
ISBN: 9780674271180
Format: Paperback
$34.95

The alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to...  Read More >>

Ripetizione e riformulazione nell’ ›Iliade‹: La tecnica discorsiva dell’ἄγγελος nella rappresentazione omerica della comunicazione verbale a distanza

Ripetizione e riformulazione nell’ ›Iliade‹: La tecnica...

Author: Ombretta Cesca
ISBN: 9783110634365
Format: Hardback
$188.67

The book deals with a particular category of repetitions in the Homeric epics and specifically in the Iliad: those...  Read More >>

Space and Language in Architectural Education: Catalysts and Tensions

Space and Language in Architectural Education: Catalysts...

Author: Kasia Nawratek
ISBN: 9781032193823
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book offers a glimpse into architectural pedagogies exploring the relationship between space and language,...  Read More >>

The Great Beyond: Art in the Age of Annihilation

The Great Beyond: Art in the Age of Annihilation

Author: Philip D. Beidler
ISBN: 9780817321260
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Presents essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality - forging...  Read More >>

Old Norse Poetry in Performance

Old Norse Poetry in Performance

Author: Brian McMahon ,  Annemari Ferreira
ISBN: 9780367408305
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. This book will be of great...  Read More >>

The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the Worlds of Science

The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the Worlds...

Author: Stephen H. Blackwell ,  Vera Polishchuk
ISBN: 9781644698075
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Most famous as a literary artist, Vladimir Nabokov was also a professional biologist and a lifelong student of science....  Read More >>

After Ovid: Aspects of the Reception of Ovid in Literature and Iconography

After Ovid: Aspects of the Reception of Ovid in Literature...

Author: Franca Ela Consolino
ISBN: 9782503592503
Format: Paperback
$248.16

The 2000th anniversary of Ovid's death, in 2017-2018, led to an upsurge in conferences and publications dedicated...  Read More >>

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern...

Author: Rodrigo Cacho Casal (Cambridge University, UK) ,  Caroline Egan (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780815358671
Format: Hardback
$462.00

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture introduces the intellectual...  Read More >>

"""Genial"" Perception": Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century

"""Genial"" Perception": Wordsworth, Coleridge and the...

Author: William C. Edinger
ISBN: 9781638040224
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Genial Perception offers a critical examination of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’snaturalist construction of creative...  Read More >>

Eternity in British Romantic Poetry

Eternity in British Romantic Poetry

Author: Madeleine Callaghan
ISBN: 9781800856066
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Eternity in British Romantic Poetry adopts an original approach to Romanticism to explore the dominant intellectual...  Read More >>

Poetry & Commons: Postwar and Romantic Lyric in Times of Enclosure

Poetry & Commons: Postwar and Romantic Lyric in Times...

Author: Daniel Eltringham
ISBN: 9781800856509
Format: Hardback
$269.10

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Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film

Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film

Author: Dina Heshmat
ISBN: 9781474458368
Format: Paperback
$54.31

The first book offering an extensive analysis of literary and cinematic narratives dealing with the 1919 anti-colonial...  Read More >>

The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics

The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland...

Author: Aidan Tynan
ISBN: 9781474443364
Format: Paperback
$54.31

Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida...  Read More >>

Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East

Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity,...

Author: Karim Mattar
ISBN: 9781474467049
Format: Paperback
$67.25

At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques...  Read More >>

Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature

Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli...

Author: Hannah Boast
ISBN: 9781474443814
Format: Paperback
$54.31

This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the...  Read More >>

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