Literary studies: general books

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Histoire, Eloquence Et Poesie a Florence Au Debut Du Quattrocento

Histoire, Eloquence Et Poesie a Florence Au Debut Du...

Author: Leonardo Bruni Aretino ,  Laurence Pradelle
ISBN: 9782812456596
Format: Hardback
$330.00

A key figure of early Florentine humanism, Leonardo Bruni left us an abundant and diverse body of work. Offering...  Read More >>

Poesie Encyclopedique Et Kabbale Chretienne: Onze Etudes Sur Guy Le Fevre de la Boderie

Poesie Encyclopedique Et Kabbale Chretienne: Onze Etudes...

Author: Jean Ceard ,  Francois Roudaut
ISBN: 9782812454370
Format: Hardback
$240.24

The eleven studies collected in this volume examine Guy Le Fevre de La Boderie's poetic and religious choices. A...  Read More >>

Bonnes Lettres / Belles Lettres

Bonnes Lettres / Belles Lettres

Author: Jean-Claude Arnould ,  Claudine Poulouin
ISBN: 9782812452901
Format: Hardback
$298.32

"Bringing together specialists on the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, these contributions examine our definitions...  Read More >>

Henri Estienne, Erudit, Novateur, Polemiste: Etude Sur AD Senecae Lectionem Proodopoeiae

Henri Estienne, Erudit, Novateur, Polemiste: Etude Sur...

Author: Denise Carabin
ISBN: 9782812453175
Format: Hardback
$261.36

The Ad Senecae lectionem Proodopoeiae marked a new phase in Henri Estienne's abundant editorial production. This...  Read More >>

de la Satura a la Bergerie: Le Prosimetre Pastoral En France a la Renaissance Et Ses Modeles

de la Satura a la Bergerie: Le Prosimetre Pastoral En...

Author: Nathalie Dauvois
ISBN: 9782812457739
Format: Hardback
$266.64

The prosimetrum, a hybrid form that combines and contrasts segments of prose and verse, flourished in Renaissance...  Read More >>

La Voix de la Nature Dans l'Oeuvre de Jacques Peletier Du Mans (1517-1582)

La Voix de la Nature Dans l'Oeuvre de Jacques Peletier...

Author: Sophie Arnaud
ISBN: 9782812459047
Format: Hardback
$293.04

The rich and varied work of Jacques Peletier du Mans finds its unity and coherence in the figure of nature, a mirror...  Read More >>

Mnemosyne: Ronsard, Une Poetique de la Memoire

Mnemosyne: Ronsard, Une Poetique de la Memoire

Author: Nathalie Dauvois
ISBN: 9782812457715
Format: Hardback
$237.60

If Ronsard's poetry follows a well-established rhetorical tradition merging the commendable with the memorable,...  Read More >>

Theologie Et Poesie Ou La Parole de Verite: La Querelle Entre Jacques Locher Et Jacques Wimpheling (1500-1510)

Theologie Et Poesie Ou La Parole de Verite: La Querelle...

Author: Yves Delegue
ISBN: 9782812459511
Format: Hardback
$232.32

This volume gives the quarrel between Jakob Wimpfeling and Jakob Locher at the beginning of the sixteenth century...  Read More >>

Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Terri Bourus (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780192865861
Format: Paperback
$16.95

A new edition of one of Shakespeare's most complex and enigmatic plays.  Read More >>

The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True stories of the magic of reading

The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True stories...

Author: James Patterson
ISBN: 9781529918908
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Featuring original interviews with booksellers and librarians, James Patterson presents a new non-fiction title...  Read More >>

Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End...

Author: Dorian Lynskey
ISBN: 9781529095944
Format: Paperback
$36.99

From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth, an equally original and revealing...  Read More >>

The Orwell Tour: Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell

The Orwell Tour: Travels Through the Life and Work of...

Author: Oliver Lewis
ISBN: 9781785789649
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived, worked and wrote  Read More >>

The Tennessee Williams Annual Review Volume 23: No 23 -- 2024

The Tennessee Williams Annual Review Volume 23: No 23...

Author: R. Barton Palmer
ISBN: 9780917860928
Format: Paperback
$39.60

I went out drinking that night in the company of friends that were mine, not yours, and when I returned after...  Read More >>

Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity...

Author: Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009280525
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and...  Read More >>

Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End...

Author: Dorian Lynskey
ISBN: 9781529095937
Format: Hardback
$55.00

From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth, an equally original and revealing...  Read More >>

Edward Ravenscroft's «Mamamouchi, or The Citizen Turned Gentleman» (1672): A Critical Edition

Edward Ravenscroft's «Mamamouchi, or The Citizen Turned...

Author: Manuel J. Gómez-Lara ,  María José Mora
ISBN: 9783034347686
Format: Paperback
$155.25

Mamamouchi, or The Citizen Turned Gentleman (1672) was Edward Ravenscroft’s playwriting debut. This edition looks...  Read More >>

The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True stories of the magic of reading

The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True stories...

Author: James Patterson
ISBN: 9781529918892
Format: Hardback
$45.00

Featuring original interviews with booksellers and librarians, James Patterson presents a new non-fiction title...  Read More >>

The Original Meaning of the Yijing: Commentary on the Scripture of Change

The Original Meaning of the Yijing: Commentary on the...

Author: Joseph Adler ,  Xi Zhu
ISBN: 9780231216609
Format: Paperback
$46.95

One of the most influential commentaries on the Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, for the past thousand...  Read More >>

Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story: Italian and English Perspectives

Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story: Italian and...

Author: Valeria Taddei
ISBN: 9781032649368
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Seamus Heaney: A Portrait in Letters

Seamus Heaney: A Portrait in Letters

Author: Peter Raina
ISBN: 9781803744896
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Seamus Heaney wrote hundreds of letters and postcards in long hand, answering almost all the letters he received...  Read More >>

Women Vloggers, Cultures & Nature: Narrativising Rural Lifescape

Women Vloggers, Cultures & Nature: Narrativising Rural...

Author: Alberta Natasia Adji
ISBN: 9783031369537
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book explores the nature-inspired and place-based vlogging activities of five young women who have become global...  Read More >>

Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England: Repairing, Recycling, Sharing

Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England: Repairing,...

Author: Hannah Ryley (Author)
ISBN: 9781914049224
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Explores the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared....  Read More >>

Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority

Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric...

Author: Anita Savo
ISBN: 9781487553234
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book investigates how a noted fourteenth-century Castilian writer developed and disseminated a concept of individual...  Read More >>

Galeni in Hippocratis de Aere Aquis Locis Commentariorum I-IV Versio Arabica

Galeni in Hippocratis de Aere Aquis Locis Commentariorum...

Author: Gotthard Strohmaier
ISBN: 9783111212739
Format: Hardback
$435.57

Von den Werken des griechischen Arztes Galen von Pergamon (129-216 n.Chr.) ist der Kommentar zur hippokratischen...  Read More >>

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