Literary studies: general books

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Shakespeare's Once and Future Child: Speculations on Sovereignty

Shakespeare's Once and Future Child: Speculations on...

Author: Professor Joseph Campana
ISBN: 9780226832548
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"A study of Shakespeare's child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own. Politicians...  Read More >>

A Companion to Saxo Grammaticus

A Companion to Saxo Grammaticus

Author: Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm ,  Lars Boje Mortensen
ISBN: 9789004518124
Format: Hardback
$588.72

A Companion to Saxo Grammaticus presents the state of the art of Saxo studies. Leading experts explain and contextualize...  Read More >>

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven 2022)

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis: Proceedings of...

Author: Florian Schaffenrath ,  Dirk Sacré
ISBN: 9789004695573
Format: Hardback
$617.76

In 2022, a conference of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies took place in Leuven (“Half a Century...  Read More >>

Jacobus Montanus: 'Centuria epistolarium formularum' / 'Eine Hundertschaft Briefmuster'

Jacobus Montanus: 'Centuria epistolarium formularum'...

Author: Michael Baldzuhn
ISBN: 9789004539938
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Kritische Edition der ‚Centuria epistolarium formularum‘ / ‚Hundertschaft Briefmuster‘ (1525) des Jacobus Montanus....  Read More >>

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8:...

Author: Cyrus R. K. Patell (Professor of English, New York University) ,  Deborah Lindsay Williams (Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies, New York University)
ISBN: 9780192844729
Format: Hardback
$260.95

An overview of US fiction since 1940 that explores the history of literary forms, the history of narrative forms,...  Read More >>

Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling

Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling

Author: Matthew Ward (Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780198894766
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading...  Read More >>

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della bestia trionfante

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della...

Author: Giordano Bruno ,  Hilary Gatti
ISBN: 9781487552015
Format: Paperback
$89.99

In this work of moral philosophy, Giordano Bruno condemns both the ancient and the modern worlds for filling their...  Read More >>

The Crusades: A Reader, Third Edition

The Crusades: A Reader, Third Edition

Author: S.J. Allen ,  Emilie Amt
ISBN: 9781487525781
Format: Paperback
$99.99

This collection of medieval primary sources provides a comprehensive view of the Crusades from multiple perspectives....  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose

Author: Robert Morrison (British Academy Global Professor, British Academy Global Professor, Bath Spa University)
ISBN: 9780198834540
Format: Hardback
$311.95

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is the first full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British...  Read More >>

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Voice of the People

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century:...

Author: Stephen Knight
ISBN: 9781032739052
Format: Hardback
$284.00

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth...  Read More >>

How to Read Middle English Poetry

How to Read Middle English Poetry

Author: Daniel Sawyer (Departmental Lecturer in English Literature and Manuscript Studies, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198895237
Format: Hardback
$149.95

A textbook that introduces students to Middle English poetry and offers advice about the understanding and interpretation...  Read More >>

Emotional Practice in Old English Literature

Emotional Practice in Old English Literature

Author: Dr Alice Jorgensen
ISBN: 9781843847052
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.  Read More >>

The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain

The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early...

Author: Seth Kimmel
ISBN: 9780226833170
Format: Hardback
$74.95

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge. Medieval scholars imagined the...  Read More >>

Homere, Iliade. Chant XXIV

Homere, Iliade. Chant XXIV

Author: Pierre Chantraine ,  Paul Collart
ISBN: 9782251455617
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Apres les Jeux funebres en l'honneur de Patrocle, tue par Hector, le fils de Priam, le chant XXIV de l'Iliade s'ouvre...  Read More >>

Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades

Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades...

Author: Regina Marie Mills
ISBN: 9781477329146
Format: Paperback
$92.27

A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Once and Future Child: Speculations on Sovereignty

Shakespeare's Once and Future Child: Speculations on...

Author: Professor Joseph Campana
ISBN: 9780226832531
Format: Hardback
$163.95

A study of Shakespeare's child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own. Politicians...  Read More >>

Emerging Subjectivity in the Long 19th-Century Middle East: Philological Approaches

Emerging Subjectivity in the Long 19th-Century Middle...

Author: Stephan Guth
ISBN: 9783111344812
Format: Hardback
$335.25

"What, actually, meant ""modernisation"" for the long 19th century Middle Easterner? Stephan Guth finds the essence...  Read More >>

The Laurel and the Olive: Collected Essays on Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry

The Laurel and the Olive: Collected Essays on Archaic...

Author: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
ISBN: 9783110787504
Format: Hardback
$467.25

This collection of studies of Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry encompasses Benjamin Acosta-Hughes' 30+ year scholarly...  Read More >>

Out of this World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and Thought

Out of this World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French...

Author: Bruno Chaouat
ISBN: 9781802074512
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The 20th century is one...  Read More >>

Alexander of Aphrodisias, ›On the Conversion of Propositions‹

Alexander of Aphrodisias, ›On the Conversion of Propositions‹...

Author: Thomas Auffret ,  Jonathan Barnes
ISBN: 9783110999570
Format: Hardback
$430.29

Alexander's essay on the conversion of predicative propositions contains otherwise unknown information about the...  Read More >>

Song of Songs in European Poetry (Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries): Translations, Appropriations, Rewritings

Song of Songs in European Poetry (Twelfth to Seventeenth...

Author: Camilla Caporicci
ISBN: 9782503608174
Format: Paperback
$264.00

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and defined by Rabbi Aqiva as the Holy of Holies among the sacred Scriptures,...  Read More >>

The Replaceability Paradigm: Replacement and Irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream

The Replaceability Paradigm: Replacement and Irreplaceability...

Author: Niall Martin ,  Ilios Willemars
ISBN: 9783111286310
Format: Hardback
$311.49

Ideas of replacement and replaceability pervade contemporary culture, fuelled by advances in artificial intelligence,...  Read More >>

Education and Learning in Byzantine Thessalonike

Education and Learning in Byzantine Thessalonike

Author: Filippomaria Pontani
ISBN: 9783111421476
Format: Hardback
$311.49

From the 11th through the 15th century Thessalonike - the ""co-capital"" along with Constantinople - hosted scholars,...  Read More >>

Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture

Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature...

Author: Marta Fernández Campa
ISBN: 9783030721374
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic...  Read More >>

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