Literary studies: general books

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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: 9780231215046
Format: Hardback
$182.95

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

On the Avenue of the Mystery: The Postwar Counterculture in Novels and Film

On the Avenue of the Mystery: The Postwar Counterculture...

Author: Gary Hentzi
ISBN: 9781032363424
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945-65) in conjunction with the films made...  Read More >>

David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer: Selected Essays of Anne Lake Prescott

David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer: Selected Essays of Anne...

Author: Anne Lake Prescott ,  Roger Kuin
ISBN: 9781526179388
Format: Hardback
$194.99

Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser,...  Read More >>

Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant Bodies

Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant...

Author: Natalie Prizel (Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9780192888563
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Explores the way that characters and figures in Victorian literature and visual art encountered and observed the...  Read More >>

Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction: Narratology and Detective Criticism

Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective...

Author: Alistair Rolls (University of Newcastle)
ISBN: 9781032264936
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the...  Read More >>

Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama

Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare...

Author: Daisy Black (Lecturer in English) ,  Katharine Goodland (Professor)
ISBN: 9781526172136
Format: Hardback
$206.99

An essay collection showing how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time...  Read More >>

Italian Futurism and the Poetry of Materiality: The Tin-Litho Book L’Anguria Lirica

Italian Futurism and the Poetry of Materiality: The...

Author: Dalila Colucci
ISBN: 9789004526273
Format: Hardback
$348.48

This volume offers the first-ever, full-length analysis of the most irreverent object of Italian Futurism: the metal...  Read More >>

Conceiving Bodies: Reproduction in Early Medieval English Medicine

Conceiving Bodies: Reproduction in Early Medieval English...

Author: Dana Oswald
ISBN: 9781526176882
Format: Hardback
$194.99

The Old English remedies for women's reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close...  Read More >>

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Author: Douglas Bruster (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
ISBN: 9781032312545
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts...  Read More >>

Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times: The Work of Life in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility

Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times: The Work of Life in...

Author: Carl Peters
ISBN: 9781032180267
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This book looks at Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece, Modern Times (1936), through the lens of film aesthetics, structure,...  Read More >>

Latin Poetry and Its Reception: Essays for Susanna Braund

Latin Poetry and Its Reception: Essays for Susanna Braund...

Author: C. W. Marshall (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367552725
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original...  Read More >>

The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature

The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature

Author: Tomasz Bilczewski ,  Stanley Bill
ISBN: 9780367691745
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through 33 case studies,...  Read More >>

Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web

Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web...

Author: Cynthia Huff (Illinois State University, USA) ,  Margaretta Jolly (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9781032195674
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new...  Read More >>

Environmental Futures: An International Literary Anthology

Environmental Futures: An International Literary Anthology...

Author: Caren Irr ,  Anik Chartrand
ISBN: 9781684582112
Format: Hardback
$248.95

""This volume is an anthology of fiction and poems by authors from around the world that highlights the diversity...  Read More >>

Translation and Mysticism: The Rose and the Wherefore

Translation and Mysticism: The Rose and the Wherefore...

Author: Philip Wilson (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781032182414
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the ways in which mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism,...  Read More >>

European Literatures of Military Occupation: Shared Experience, Shifting Boundaries, and Aesthetic Affections

European Literatures of Military Occupation: Shared...

Author: Matthias Buschmeier ,  Jeanne E. Glesener
ISBN: 9789462704077
Format: Paperback
$90.56

Occupation literature: a new perspective on European identities What does it mean to live under occupation? How...  Read More >>

The Shelleyan Brontës: Mary and Percy Shelley in the Work of the Brontës

The Shelleyan Brontës: Mary and Percy Shelley in the...

Author: J. E. Young
ISBN: 9783031560514
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Cahiers d'Etudes Nodieristes 2024,13: Charles Nodier Et Les Pays Slaves

Cahiers d'Etudes Nodieristes 2024,13: Charles Nodier...

Author: Vera Milchina ,  Virginie Tellier
ISBN: 9782406170976
Format: Paperback
$97.68

Contributeurs: Nicolas Aude, Jacques Geoffroy, Thierry Grandjean, Katia Hayek, Tomasz Jedrzejewski, Vera Milchina,...  Read More >>

Enquete Sur Le Fantome de l'Opera de Gaston LeRoux

Enquete Sur Le Fantome de l'Opera de Gaston LeRoux

Author: Guillaume Fau ,  Martine Kahane
ISBN: 9782406169758
Format: Paperback
$147.84

In The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux, inspired by a copious documentation and real live incidents, weaves...  Read More >>

La Memoire de Paolo Sarpi Au Prisme de l'Histoire a l'Occasion Du Quatrieme Centenaire de Sa Mort

La Memoire de Paolo Sarpi Au Prisme de l'Histoire a...

Author: Sylvio Hermann de Franceschi ,  Bernard Dompnier
ISBN: 9782406169789
Format: Paperback
$89.76

While some saw the death of Paolo Sarpi as an opportunity to erase all trace of him once and for all, others sought...  Read More >>

Poetry in Late Byzantium

Poetry in Late Byzantium

Author: Krystina Kubina
ISBN: 9789004699670
Format: Hardback
$570.24

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of poetry in the late Byzantine period, covering texts originating...  Read More >>

La Felure Silencieuse: Poetique de l'Incertain Dans l'Oeuvre de Gisele Fournier

La Felure Silencieuse: Poetique de l'Incertain Dans...

Author: Anne-Lise Blanc
ISBN: 9782406170495
Format: Paperback
$89.76

Gisele Fournier is a 21st century novelist whose fictions are less meant to tell stories than to express the cracks...  Read More >>

Negotiating Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women

Negotiating Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works...

Author: Holly Faith Nelson ,  Adrea Johnson
ISBN: 9789048560417
Format: Hardback
$409.20

This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically...  Read More >>

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