Literary studies: general books

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

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing...

Author: Dan Sinykin ,  Mike Lenz
ISBN: 9798874839581
Format: Audio
$131.97

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

Religion and Science Fiction: An Introduction

Religion and Science Fiction: An Introduction

Author: James H. Thrall, M.D.
ISBN: 9780367465087
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This textbook introduces key ideas of religious studies through critical consideration of print and visual media...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature...

Author: Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside)
ISBN: 9781009180054
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, this Companion charts...  Read More >>

Beckett and Cioran

Beckett and Cioran

Author: Steven Matthews (University of Reading)
ISBN: 9781009351553
Format: Paperback
$43.99

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The Pedagogy of Watching Shakespeare

The Pedagogy of Watching Shakespeare

Author: Bethan Marshall (King's College London) ,  Myfanwy Edwards (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781009114974
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element offers suggestions for how teachers might re-think the ways in which they present Shakespeare performed...  Read More >>

Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Examining a Controversial Legacy

Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Examining...

Author: Birgit Haberpeuntner (University of Vienna, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350387188
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory,...  Read More >>

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Author: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350380592
Format: Hardback
$170.00

"""Plastic and concrete are two of the most important and ubiquitous materials of the modern age. This open access...  Read More >>

The Temple of Our Soul: Bilingual Edition with Introduction and Translation

The Temple of Our Soul: Bilingual Edition with Introduction...

Author: Anonymous ,  Rik Van Nieuwenhove (Durham University)
ISBN: 9781009299114
Format: Hardback
$336.38

This bilingual edition offers the first English translation of The Temple of our Soul, one of the most attractive...  Read More >>

Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel: Why Literature Is Not Philosophy

Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel: Why Literature...

Author: Lyra Ekström Lindbäck
ISBN: 9781350332911
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch’s work...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic...

Author: Lokangaka Losambe ,  Tanure Ojaide (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.)
ISBN: 9781032500461
Format: Hardback
$452.00

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational,...  Read More >>

Arms and the Many: Multiplicity in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

Arms and the Many: Multiplicity in Lucan’s Bellum Civile...

Author: Dr Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781350377547
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Taking at its centre Lucan's violent and subversive military epic on the Roman Civil War, this volume responds to...  Read More >>

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6, 1934–1936

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6, 1934–1936...

Author: Ernest Hemingway ,  Sandra Spanier (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9780521897389
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Hemingway's letters constitute a rich, continuous portrait of the artist. Never intended for publication, the letters...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American...

Author: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (Pomona College, California)
ISBN: 9781009204156
Format: Hardback
$194.06

""This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It...  Read More >>

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Author: Willow White
ISBN: 9781644533406
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Feminist Comedy argues that the development of modern feminist thought is closely linked to theatrical comedy. Through...  Read More >>

American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth

American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the...

Author: Thomas Gustafson
ISBN: 9781978838024
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Combining literary analysis with historical research, Thomas Gustafson examines how Philip Roth's acclaimed 1997...  Read More >>

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in...

Author: Dayne C. Riley
ISBN: 9781684485314
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from...  Read More >>

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits...

Author: Javier Patiño Loira
ISBN: 9781644533444
Format: Paperback
$158.27

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Beckett and Cioran

Beckett and Cioran

Author: Steven Matthews (University of Reading)
ISBN: 9781009494724
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element discusses the link between Samuel Beckett and E. M. Cioran, drawing upon the terms of Beckett's engagement...  Read More >>

Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

Author: Demetrio S. Yocum ,  Francesco Petrarca
ISBN: 9780268207854
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon: A Children's Classic at 100

L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon: A Children's Classic...

Author: Yan Du ,  Joe Sutliff Sanders
ISBN: 9781496852502
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Despite being overshadowed by the immense popularity of Anne of Green Gables, the Emily of New Moon trilogy has...  Read More >>

Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet

Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination...

Author: Jesse S. Cohn
ISBN: 9781496850164
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations...  Read More >>

The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages

The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9781666917888
Format: Paperback
$68.99

The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing...  Read More >>

Becoming the Pearl-Poet: Perceptions, Connections, Receptions

Becoming the Pearl-Poet: Perceptions, Connections, Receptions...

Author: Jane Beal ,  Kristin Abbo
ISBN: 9781793646774
Format: Paperback
$73.99

From Becoming the Pearl-Poet, students and scholars alike can learn about the Pearl-poet and the five poems attributed...  Read More >>

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