Literary studies: general books

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Towards a Theory of Life-Writing: Genre Blending

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing: Genre Blending

Author: Marija Krsteva
ISBN: 9781032356440
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing...  Read More >>

Wilkie Collins: The Complete Fiction

Wilkie Collins: The Complete Fiction

Author: Stephen Knight
ISBN: 9781032293523
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Delivering fresh insight into the variety and richness of Collins’ themes and arguments, this volume provides a...  Read More >>

Rilke’s Hands: An Essay on Gentleness

Rilke’s Hands: An Essay on Gentleness

Author: Harold Schweizer
ISBN: 9781032385099
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This is a book of meditative reading with an aim to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades...  Read More >>

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks:...

Author: Caroline Wiesenthal Lion
ISBN: 9781032121390
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount...  Read More >>

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter...

Author: Alex Donovan Cole
ISBN: 9781032386140
Format: Paperback
$83.99

I argue for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public...  Read More >>

Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego

Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the...

Author: Christopher Hogarth
ISBN: 9781032067919
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Afropean Female Selves offers a comparative study across two languages of a notion that has so far been explored...  Read More >>

The Women Who Invented Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature: Only the Best

The Women Who Invented Twentieth-Century Children’s...

Author: Elizabeth West
ISBN: 9781032308289
Format: Paperback
$83.99

By focusing on a selection of women working across all aspects of the book production process, this book demonstrates...  Read More >>

D. H. Lawrence, Ecofeminism and Nature

D. H. Lawrence, Ecofeminism and Nature

Author: Terry Gifford
ISBN: 9780367539283
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This is the first ecocritical book on the works of D. H. Lawrence and also the first to consider the links between...  Read More >>

A Posthumous History of José Martí: The Apostle and his Afterlife

A Posthumous History of José Martí: The Apostle and...

Author: Alfred J. López
ISBN: 9781032319674
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The monograph focuses on Martí’s posthumous legacy on generations of Cubans everywhere. It examines roughly 120-year...  Read More >>

Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature: The Cultural Work of Literary Preaching from Emerson to Morrison

Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature: The...

Author: Matthew Smalley (Assistant Professor)
ISBN: 9781350400009
Format: Hardback
$170.00

With seemingly obsessive regularity, American authors, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, evoke the...  Read More >>

Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi

Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks...

Author: David Wiles (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009167994
Format: Hardback
$77.63

David Wiles boldly reframes democracy as a form of theatre, moving from Athens to the English, French, and American...  Read More >>

Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and Performance

Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and Performance...

Author: Sophie Coulombeau (University of York)
ISBN: 9781009532945
Format: Hardback
$129.35

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

The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac

The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac

Author: Steven Belletto (Lafayette College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009423601
Format: Hardback
$181.13

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

The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

Author: Paolo Pitari
ISBN: 9781032676678
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time....  Read More >>

Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis

Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and...

Author: Professor Paul Allen Miller (Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781350357266
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his...  Read More >>

Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon

Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon...

Author: Delphine Rumeau
ISBN: 9798887194608
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The reception of Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. This book focuses on the Russian and Soviet uses of...  Read More >>

Suddenness and Signs: The Eschatologies of 1 and 2 Thessalonians

Suddenness and Signs: The Eschatologies of 1 and 2 Thessalonians...

Author: Sydney Tooth
ISBN: 9783161635632
Format: Paperback
$295.68

The relationship of 1 and 2 Thessalonians is a perennial puzzle in Pauline scholarship, with considerable questions...  Read More >>

In Poe's Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric

In Poe's Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric...

Author: Jonathan Elmer
ISBN: 9780226833477
Format: Hardback
$190.95

"Explores how Edgar Allan Poe has become a household name, as much a brand as an author. You'll find his face...  Read More >>

Henry James' Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction

Henry James' Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction

Author: Mirosława Buchholtz
ISBN: 9781032653532
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’s idea and practice of...  Read More >>

Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity

Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity

Author: Karen Underhill
ISBN: 9780253069931
Format: Paperback
$82.99

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