Literary studies: general books

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The Struggle of the Modern

The Struggle of the Modern

Author: Stephen Spender
ISBN: 9780520358812
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Personal Reflections About Those Qualities In Literature And Art, In The Present Century, That Mr. Spender Regards...  Read More >>

Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation

Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary...

Author: Gregory M. Clines
ISBN: 9780367762919
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Contested Nations: Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays

Shakespeare’s Contested Nations: Race, Gender, and Multicultural...

Author: L. Monique Pittman
ISBN: 9780367488314
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Shakespeare’s Contested Nations examines the way in which performed Shakespearean history replicates exclusions,...  Read More >>

Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City

Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City

Author: Pallavi Narayan
ISBN: 9780367760649
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and...  Read More >>

George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of Realism

George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of Realism

Author: U. C. Knoepflmacher
ISBN: 9780520357822
Format: Hardback
$157.95

"This study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial...  Read More >>

The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, With an Introduction by Michael Ignatieff

The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View...

Author: Isaiah Berlin
ISBN: 9781474619707
Format: Paperback
$22.99

'A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master' Robert...  Read More >>

Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature

Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature

Author: Carole Mejia Laperle
ISBN: 9780866986922
Format: Hardback
$52.67

"""This collection of essays brings together critical race studies and affect theory to examine the emotional dimensions...  Read More >>

Race and Romance: Coloring the Past

Race and Romance: Coloring the Past

Author: Margo Hendricks
ISBN: 9780866986946
Format: Hardback
$79.07

"""This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue. It explores the literary and cultural...  Read More >>

Publishing in Wales: Renaissance and Resistance

Publishing in Wales: Renaissance and Resistance

Author: Jacob D. Rawlins (Brigham Young University, Utah)
ISBN: 9781108948173
Format: Paperback
$32.32

The story of publishing in Wales is connected to the story of Wales itself. Wales, the Welsh people, and the Welsh...  Read More >>

Quixotic Memories: Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern Spain

Quixotic Memories: Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern...

Author: Julia Dominguez
ISBN: 9781487543921
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Quixotic Memories explores the complexity of memory through the lens of Miguel de Cervantes and his famous novel...  Read More >>

Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

Author: Amy Jeffs
ISBN: 9781529408003
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Estate Management and Symposium

Estate Management and Symposium

Author: Xenophon ,  Emily Baragwanath (Associate Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina)
ISBN: 9780198823513
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Xenophon recounted several Socratic dialogues which included his Symposium and Oeconomicus and both are concerned...  Read More >>

Geography of Horror: Spaces, Hauntings and the American Imagination

Geography of Horror: Spaces, Hauntings and the American...

Author: Marko Lukić
ISBN: 9783030993245
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book provides a comprehensive reading of a space/place-based experience from the birth of the American horror...  Read More >>

Principles of Tragedy: A Rational Examination of the Tragic Concept in Life and Literature

Principles of Tragedy: A Rational Examination of the...

Author: Geoffrey Brereton
ISBN: 9781032253039
Format: Hardback
$221.00

What is tragedy? What does the term imply? The word had outgrown its original context of literature and art and...  Read More >>

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

Author: Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781316516089
Format: Hardback
$194.06

The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin...  Read More >>

Translation, Reception and Canonization of The Art of War: Reviving Ancient Chinese Strategic Culture

Translation, Reception and Canonization of The Art of...

Author: Tian Luo (Chongqing Jiaotong University, China)
ISBN: 9780367458461
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book presents a systematic and in-depth investigation into the translation and reception of The Art of War...  Read More >>

Opera aperta: Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present

Opera aperta: Italian Electronic Literature from the...

Author: Robert S.C. Gordon ,  Pierpaolo Antonello
ISBN: 9781789978599
Format: Paperback
$125.75

This book reconstructs the history of Italian electronic literature, looking at creative practices across literature,...  Read More >>

Narrative in the Anthropocene

Narrative in the Anthropocene

Author: Erin James
ISBN: 9780814215074
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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Emotions through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium

Emotions through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium

Author: Douglas Cairns ,  Martin Hinterberger
ISBN: 9783161613418
Format: Hardback
$243.48

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Three More Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Politics

Three More Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Politics

Author: Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University, United States of America)
ISBN: 9780367747596
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These translations...  Read More >>

The Comedy of Manners

The Comedy of Manners

Author: Kenneth Muir
ISBN: 9781032215617
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First published in 1970, the introduction distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy...  Read More >>

The Art of Greek Comedy

The Art of Greek Comedy

Author: Katherine Lever
ISBN: 9781032225784
Format: Hardback
$221.00

Originally published in 1956, this is a critical analysis of the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander studied in...  Read More >>

Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy

Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy

Author: Regina Barreca
ISBN: 9781032226217
Format: Hardback
$231.00

"First published in 1988, the 19 original essays (and three ""Sylvia"" cartoons) included in this volume deal with...  Read More >>

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