Literary studies: general books

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Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks,...

Author: Edith Hall
ISBN: 9780300273533
Format: Hardback
$39.95

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An Introduction to Jean Bodel

An Introduction to Jean Bodel

Author: Lynn T. Ramey
ISBN: 9780813079028
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Explores the life and works of Jean Bodel, an influential author who lived in twelfth-century Arras, France. A versatile...  Read More >>

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

Author: Andrew Blauner
ISBN: 9780691242439
Format: Hardback
$54.99

A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five...  Read More >>

Nietzsche as Stylist: Aesthetics and Philosophy

Nietzsche as Stylist: Aesthetics and Philosophy

Author: Martine Béland
ISBN: 9780228021100
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in seventeen years. Nietzsche as Stylist traces...  Read More >>

Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Sleep

Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural...

Author: Paul Huebener
ISBN: 9780228020387
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Cultural visions of sleep circulate through such diverse forms as mattress ads, billboards, comic books, memoirs,...  Read More >>

What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal

What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of...

Author: Susie O’Brien
ISBN: 9780228021339
Format: Hardback
$290.40

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Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance

Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development...

Author: Eirini Arvanitaki
ISBN: 9781032558301
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a discussion of love as portrayed in ‘Modern’ popular...  Read More >>

Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical State

Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical...

Author: Cate I. Reilly
ISBN: 9780231214650
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

Author: J B Priestley
ISBN: 9781802077780
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In this 1960 study, J. B. Priestley examines the life and career of William Hazlitt, a writer who markedly influences...  Read More >>

Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames

Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and...

Author: Megan Amber Condis ,  Mike Sell
ISBN: 9780807180891
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of...  Read More >>

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

Author: Christopher Heywood
ISBN: 9780853836186
Format: Paperback
$86.99

In this 1983 study, Christopher Heywood explores the life and work of writer Nadine Gordimer.  Read More >>

Pen Meets Paint: 200 Years Mauritshuis, 200 Writers, 200 Paintings

Pen Meets Paint: 200 Years Mauritshuis, 200 Writers,...

Author:
ISBN: 9789462623811
Format: Hardback
$155.22

What happens when two art forms – the literary and the visual arts – come together? For its bicentenary, the Mauritshuis...  Read More >>

The Life of LTC Rolt: Where Engineering Met Literature

The Life of LTC Rolt: Where Engineering Met Literature...

Author: Victoria Owens
ISBN: 9781399056618
Format: Hardback
$65.00

In 1926, Tom Rolt who was then sixteen years old, abandoned his public school education. Having taken a job with...  Read More >>

Bosnian Literary Adaptations on Stage and Screen

Bosnian Literary Adaptations on Stage and Screen

Author: Sanja Garić-Komnenić
ISBN: 9783031471339
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Bosnian Literature on Stage and Screen aims to reconcile theoretical approaches with theatrical and cinematic practices...  Read More >>

Present Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction: A Narratological Overview

Present Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction: A Narratological...

Author: Irmtraud Huber
ISBN: 9781349850792
Format: Paperback
$89.99

In this book, Irmtraud Huber considers a wide range of contemporary novels to explore the variety of possibilities...  Read More >>

Women of the Catholic Imagination: Twelve Inspired Novelists You Should Know

Women of the Catholic Imagination: Twelve Inspired Novelists...

Author: Haley Stewart
ISBN: 9781685780968
Format: Paperback
$65.87

There is no lack of talented women in the Catholic literary tradition. Yet these brilliant writers are often unfamiliar...  Read More >>

Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame

Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing...

Author: James Scorer
ISBN: 9781477329023
Format: Hardback
$118.80

How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.  Read More >>

German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century to the Present: Controversies, Positions, Perspectives

German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century...

Author: Gabriele Dürbeck ,  Christine Kanz
ISBN: 9783031509094
Format: Hardback
$448.77

The book asks whether the here discussed texts can, should, or may also be labeled as 'Nature Writing' and how this...  Read More >>

The Omnibus: A Cultural History of Urban Transportation

The Omnibus: A Cultural History of Urban Transportation...

Author: Elizabeth Amann
ISBN: 9783031187100
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Double Assassinat Dans La Rue Morgue !: Edgar Allan Poe En Traduction Francaise

Double Assassinat Dans La Rue Morgue !: Edgar Allan...

Author: Edgar Allan Poe ,  Karl Philipp Ellerbrock
ISBN: 9782406169338
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Cette edition permet de comparer The Murders in the Rue Morgue d'Edgar Allan Poe (1841), texte fondateur du roman...  Read More >>

Sensing Greek Drama

Sensing Greek Drama

Author: Zachary Case ,  Marcus Ellis
ISBN: 9781913701468
Format: Hardback
$155.25

Sensing Greek Drama uses the senses as a heuristic tool to explore ancient Greek tragedy and comedy. The volume...  Read More >>

Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques of Voltaire and Vergil

Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques...

Author: James Gawley
ISBN: 9782406165866
Format: Paperback
$110.88

This volume quantifies the features that signify allusion in Voltaire and Vergil. Consistency of reader response...  Read More >>

Proust Et La Tradition Litteraire Europeenne

Proust Et La Tradition Litteraire Europeenne

Author: David Ellison
ISBN: 9782406169352
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Reading a writer always means situating him, or her, in an era, culture, and literary tradition. As translator of...  Read More >>

Correspondance (1889-1890)

Correspondance (1889-1890)

Author: Leon Bloy ,  Johanne Molbech
ISBN: 9782406169314
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Following the publication of Lettres a sa fiancee, many people enquired as to who this young woman was, to whom...  Read More >>

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