Literary studies: general books

315853 books were found.

Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama

Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama

Author: Michael M. Wagoner (United States Naval Academy, USA) ,  Professor Douglas Bruster (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
ISBN: 9781350238343
Format: Paperback
$59.99

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful...  Read More >>

Myths and Ancient Stories: Narrative, Meaning and Influence in the West

Myths and Ancient Stories: Narrative, Meaning and Influence...

Author: Professor Kevin Mills
ISBN: 9781350346840
Format: Hardback
$130.00

An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories...  Read More >>

Women and the Romance of the Word: 19th Century Contexts in Bengal

Women and the Romance of the Word: 19th Century Contexts...

Author: Sreemati Mukherjee (Presidency University, Kolkata, India)
ISBN: 9789356406001
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Around the middle of the 19th century, woman emerges as a new sign disrupting the cultural economy of Bengal and...  Read More >>

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament: An Anthology

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament:...

Author: Victor H. Mair ,  Zhenjun Zhang (St. Lawrence University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350337206
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions...  Read More >>

A History of World Literature

A History of World Literature

Author: Theo D'haen
ISBN: 9781032433042
Format: Paperback
$75.99

A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World...  Read More >>

Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories

Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories

Author: Marianne Novy
ISBN: 9781439925904
Format: Paperback
$86.99

""In this volume, leading scholar of Literary Adoption Studies Marianne Novy complicates the all-too-often essentialized...  Read More >>

Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China

Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China

Author: Benoît Vermander
ISBN: 9781032735467
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, the book offers a novel construal...  Read More >>

Kafka: Making of an Icon

Kafka: Making of an Icon

Author: Ritchie Robertson
ISBN: 9781851246229
Format: Hardback
$69.99

An authoritative collection of essays celebrating Kafka's life and work, and examining how his writing has continued...  Read More >>

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide

Author: K. P. Clarke (University of York)
ISBN: 9781009400817
Format: Hardback
$181.13

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The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period

The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period...

Author: Ellie Bennett
ISBN: 9789515185822
Format: Paperback
$152.53

The title “Queen of the Arabs” is applied in Neo-Assyrian texts to five women from the Arabian Peninsula. These...  Read More >>

An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders

An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders

Author: Carl Phelpstead
ISBN: 9780813080680
Format: Paperback
$73.92

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A History of World Literature

A History of World Literature

Author: Theo D'haen
ISBN: 9781032433059
Format: Hardback
$284.00

A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World...  Read More >>

The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species

The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species...

Author: Michael Bérubé
ISBN: 9780231215053
Format: Paperback
$42.95

Michael Bérubé explores the surprising insights of classic and contemporary works of SF that depict civilizational...  Read More >>

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

Author: Sophie Tomlinson
ISBN: 9781526178879
Format: Paperback
$45.99

The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations,...  Read More >>

Character and Caricature, 1660-1820

Character and Caricature, 1660-1820

Author: Jennifer Buckley ,  Montana Davies-Shuck
ISBN: 9783031485121
Format: Hardback
$310.47

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Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author...

Author: Sophus Helle
ISBN: 9780300276763
Format: Paperback
$30.95

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original...  Read More >>

Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories

Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories

Author: Marianne Novy
ISBN: 9781439925898
Format: Hardback
$291.72

""In this volume, leading scholar of Literary Adoption Studies Marianne Novy complicates the all-too-often essentialized...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature

Author: Michael Y. Bennett
ISBN: 9781032188126
Format: Hardback
$452.00

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is a field-defining collection. The editor and contributors are...  Read More >>

New Realism in Alice Munro’s Fiction

New Realism in Alice Munro’s Fiction

Author: Li-Ping Geng
ISBN: 9781032289984
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The book studies Alice Munro’s inheritance of and contribution to Realism from the perspective of a Chinese scholar....  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature...

Author: Rachael Durkin (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032232874
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about...  Read More >>

The Words of Winston Churchill

The Words of Winston Churchill

Author: Jonathan Locke Hart
ISBN: 9781032354927
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Words of Winston Churchill ranges over a controversial and remarkable career, is about the power and art of...  Read More >>

Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: Conviction and Career

Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals:...

Author: Annemarie McAllister
ISBN: 9781032372495
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores...  Read More >>

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