Literary studies: general books

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Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing...  Read More >>

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The volume situates Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship within broader conversations in the study of the ancient world:...  Read More >>

Gerd Theißen plädiert anhand einer bibelhermeneutischen Ethik dafür, die ""Freiheit"" gleichwertig neben die ökumenischen...  Read More >>

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Siblings Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) and John Philip Kemble (1757–1823) were the most famous British actors of the...  Read More >>

"""A consideration of the theoretical, conceptual, and material connections between African literatures and ""the...  Read More >>

The mythological hero Orpheus occupied a central role in ancient Greek culture, but ‘the son of Oeagrus’ and ‘Thracian...  Read More >>

"""Interdisciplinary studies on the position of love in contemporary global thought and literature that address...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including...  Read More >>

Winner of the Counter Current Award at the 2023 Palestine Book Awards All national identities are somewhat fluid,...  Read More >>

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Exploring the deeply translational and transnational nature of the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, this book argues...  Read More >>

Offering an accessible introduction to the history of race, this volume shows how this history has been represented...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac brings together 19 leading...  Read More >>

Jack P. Rawlins's study explores one of the great problems of mid-Victorian literature: the explanation and justification...  Read More >>

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining...  Read More >>

This Element offers a multidimensional study of reading practice and sibling rivalry in late eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Born into a family of very modest means in Canal Dover, Ohio, she numbered among the University of Chicago’s earliest...  Read More >>

""Explores and illuminates Slavoj éZiézek's impact on our understanding of literary and cultural modernism""--  Read More >>

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows...  Read More >>

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

Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing...  Read More >>