Literary studies: general books

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George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety: Nudging Towards God

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety:...

Author: Ceri Sullivan (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9780198906810
Format: Hardback
$149.95

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety employs contemporary nudge theory to illuminate the religious...  Read More >>

Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Curiosity to See and Behold

Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England:...

Author: Whitney Dirks
ISBN: 9789462986671
Format: Hardback
$396.00

In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were kidnapped...  Read More >>

Vor dem Weltruhm: Nachrufe auf Franz Kafka und die Entstehung literarischer Unsterblichkeit

Vor dem Weltruhm: Nachrufe auf Franz Kafka und die Entstehung...

Author: Dr. Ines Koeltzsch ,  Prof. Dr. Werner Michler
ISBN: 9783205220114
Format: Paperback
$108.24

Wie wurde der zu Lebzeiten nur mäßig bekannte Franz Kafka zu einer Ikone der Weltliteratur?  Read More >>

Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy

Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism,...

Author: Jonathan Branfman
ISBN: 9781479820764
Format: Hardback
$234.96

Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media Jewish stars have longed faced...  Read More >>

Schönheitsdiskurse in Der Literatur Des Mittelalters: Die Propädeutik Des Fleisches Zwischen 'Aisthesis' Und Ästhetik

Schönheitsdiskurse in Der Literatur Des Mittelalters:...

Author: Fabian David Scheidel
ISBN: 9783111521800
Format: Paperback
$102.93

This study provides a fundamental new reading of numerous commonplace positions in Germanic medieval studies relating...  Read More >>

Die Verletzte Republik: Erzählte Gewalt Im Frankreich Des 21. Jahrhunderts

Die Verletzte Republik: Erzählte Gewalt Im Frankreich...

Author: Markus Alexander Lenz
ISBN: 9783111536767
Format: Paperback
$87.09

This study examines the literary discourse about forms of violence in French society at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Erzählte Ordnungen - Ordnungen Des Erzählens: Studien Zu Texten Vom Mittelalter Bis Zur Frühen Neuzeit

Erzählte Ordnungen - Ordnungen Des Erzählens: Studien...

Author: Daniela Fuhrmann ,  Pia Selmayr
ISBN: 9783111543772
Format: Paperback
$73.89

By unfurling worlds, narratives also create orders. In addition, their narration has to be structured in an orderly...  Read More >>

Resumen de El Club De Las 5 Da Ma �ana Robin Sharma

Resumen de El Club De Las 5 Da Ma �ana Robin Sharma...

Author: Francis Thomas
ISBN: 9798869372086
Format: Paperback
$23.73

El Club De Las 5 Da Ma �ana El Club de las 5 AM: Domina tu Ma�ana, Eleva tu Vida tiene un seguimiento mundial...  Read More >>

Living and Learning in Dissimilitude Without Dissonance: Wording Otherness

Living and Learning in Dissimilitude Without Dissonance:...

Author: Michelle Gadpaille ,  Mojca Krevel
ISBN: 9781036404949
Format: Hardback
$314.03

The processes of globalisation and digitalisation have complicated the traditional understanding of otherness. In...  Read More >>

David Malouf's Partnership Narratives: The Light that Fills the World

David Malouf's Partnership Narratives: The Light that...

Author: Antonella Riem Natale
ISBN: 9781036403157
Format: Hardback
$306.11

This timely and long-awaited monograph on the work of eminent Australian writer David Malouf adopts the methodology...  Read More >>

Perceval Le Galloys En Prose (Paris. 1530): Chapitres 1-25

Perceval Le Galloys En Prose (Paris. 1530): Chapitres...

Author: Maria Colombo Timelli
ISBN: 9782406160441
Format: Paperback
$97.68

This prose edition of Perceval le Galloys (Paris, 1530) provides readers with a text that was unknown until now....  Read More >>

Traductions Imprimees, Traductions Pour l'Imprime (1470-1550)

Traductions Imprimees, Traductions Pour l'Imprime (1470-1550)...

Author: Elisabetta Barale ,  Maria Colombo Timelli
ISBN: 9782406164579
Format: Paperback
$87.12

The decades between the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance recorded the quantitative and qualitative increase...  Read More >>

La Narration Oratoire Et Les Genres Litteraires: Xve-Xviiie Siecles

La Narration Oratoire Et Les Genres Litteraires: Xve-Xviiie...

Author: Pascale Mounier
ISBN: 9782406166238
Format: Paperback
$97.68

The precepts of narrative shapes literary production between the 15th and 18th centuries. This volume explores the...  Read More >>

Women, the Arts, and Dictatorship in the Portuguese-Speaking Context: Tensions, Disputes, and Post-Memory Heritage

Women, the Arts, and Dictatorship in the Portuguese-Speaking...

Author: Ana Gabriela Macedo ,  Margarida Esteves Pereira
ISBN: 9783110783377
Format: Hardback
$372.21

This volume aims to increase the visibility of twentieth-century women artists from Portugal, Brazil and Portuguese-speaking...  Read More >>

Treasuries of Literature: Anthologies, Lexica, Scholia and the Indirect Tradition of Classical Texts in the Greek World

Treasuries of Literature: Anthologies, Lexica, Scholia...

Author: Federico Favi ,  Virginia Mastellari
ISBN: 9783111385976
Format: Hardback
$343.17

The contributions included in this volume deal with the indirect tradition of classical Greek texts in anthologies,...  Read More >>

Anxiety in Modern Scandinavian Literature: August Strindberg, Inger Christensen, Karl Ove Knausgård

Anxiety in Modern Scandinavian Literature: August Strindberg,...

Author: Markus Floris Christensen
ISBN: 9783111132044
Format: Hardback
$290.37

The present volume explores how states and traits of anxiety are reflected in the style and structure of works by...  Read More >>

Yours Presently: The Selected Letters of John Wieners

Yours Presently: The Selected Letters of John Wieners...

Author: Michael Seth Stewart ,  Eileen Myles
ISBN: 9780826366351
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Boston born and bred, John Wieners was a queer self-styled poete maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries...  Read More >>

William Blake's Visions: Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia

William Blake's Visions: Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia...

Author: David Worrall
ISBN: 9783031532535
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blake’s visual art and writings, and discusses...  Read More >>

Perceval Le Galloys En Prose (Paris. 1530): Chapitres 1-25

Perceval Le Galloys En Prose (Paris. 1530): Chapitres...

Author: Maria Colombo Timelli
ISBN: 9782406160458
Format: Hardback
$240.24

This prose edition of Perceval le Galloys (Paris, 1530) provides readers with a text that was unknown until now....  Read More >>

La Narration Oratoire Et Les Genres Litteraires: Xve-Xviiie Siecles

La Narration Oratoire Et Les Genres Litteraires: Xve-Xviiie...

Author: Pascale Mounier
ISBN: 9782406166245
Format: Hardback
$240.24

The precepts of narrative shapes literary production between the 15th and 18th centuries. This volume explores the...  Read More >>

Traductions Imprimees, Traductions Pour l'Imprime (1470-1550)

Traductions Imprimees, Traductions Pour l'Imprime (1470-1550)...

Author: Elisabetta Barale ,  Maria Colombo Timelli
ISBN: 9782406164586
Format: Hardback
$232.32

The decades between the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance recorded the quantitative and qualitative increase...  Read More >>

Tamil Prose after Bharathi

Tamil Prose after Bharathi

Author: Vallikannan ,  S Thillainayagam
ISBN: 9781032718156
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book discusses the individualistic features of several great writers of Tamil fiction and their contribution...  Read More >>

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing...

Author: Dan Sinykin ,  Mike Lenz
ISBN: 9798874839598
Format: Audio
$121.31

Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means...  Read More >>

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