Literary studies: general books

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Kleinere Sokratische Schriften: Griechisch - Deutsch

Kleinere Sokratische Schriften: Griechisch - Deutsch...

Author: Xenophon ,  Rainer Nickel
ISBN: 9783110721935
Format: Hardback
$121.41

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German...  Read More >>

Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism

Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age...

Author: Professor Ilya Kliger
ISBN: 9780226831862
Format: Hardback
$163.95

An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state. The nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

From Pushkin to Popular Culture: Essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy

From Pushkin to Popular Culture: Essays by Catharine...

Author: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy ,  Emily D. Johnson
ISBN: 9798887194240
Format: Paperback
$72.99

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original...  Read More >>

Somewhere Towards The End

Somewhere Towards The End

Author: Diana Athill (Y)
ISBN: 9781803510927
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: the Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old.  Read More >>

HoneyVoiced: A Translation of Pindar’s Songs for Athletes

HoneyVoiced: A Translation of Pindar’s Songs for Athletes...

Author: Dr James Bradley Wells (DePauw University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350226401
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility...  Read More >>

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception: Intersections of Myth, Science and History

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception:...

Author: Professor David Christenson ,  Cynthia White
ISBN: 9781350344679
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception....  Read More >>

Robert Lowell In Context

Robert Lowell In Context

Author: Thomas Austenfeld (University of Fribourg) ,  Grzegorz Kość (University of Warsaw)
ISBN: 9781009465717
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various...  Read More >>

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literature

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication...

Author: Robert James Merrett
ISBN: 9781039187535
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literary History explores how literary history...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy and the Middle East: Chasing the Myth

Greek Tragedy and the Middle East: Chasing the Myth...

Author: Pauline Donizeau ,  Yassaman Khajehi
ISBN: 9781350355699
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Employing the idea of interculturality to study Middle Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy from the turn of 20th...  Read More >>

Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise

Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise

Author: Joanne Leow
ISBN: 9781802074475
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Counter-Cartographies draws...  Read More >>

From Pushkin to Popular Culture: Essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy

From Pushkin to Popular Culture: Essays by Catharine...

Author: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy ,  Emily D. Johnson
ISBN: 9798887194233
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original...  Read More >>

Kim Stanley Robinson: Apprenticeships in Narrative

Kim Stanley Robinson: Apprenticeships in Narrative

Author: Andrew Rowcroft
ISBN: 9781802075335
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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Damned Agitator: A Michael Gold Reader

Damned Agitator: A Michael Gold Reader

Author: Michael Gold ,  Patrick Chura
ISBN: 9781438495347
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.  Read More >>

Selling the Humanities: Essays

Selling the Humanities: Essays

Author: Jeffrey R. Di Leo ,  H. Aram Veeser
ISBN: 9781680033182
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as...  Read More >>

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies...

Author: D. Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9781469678405
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Examines an eclectic group of literary texts that have rarely, if ever, been considered representative of ‘the nation’...  Read More >>

La réception de Proust à l’étranger

La réception de Proust à l’étranger

Author: Sjef Houppermans ,  Manet van Montfrans
ISBN: 9789004697737
Format: Paperback
$232.32

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Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literature

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication...

Author: Robert James Merrett
ISBN: 9781039187542
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literary History explores how literary history...  Read More >>

Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing

Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American...

Author: Daniel McKay ,  Patrick Porter
ISBN: 9781531505165
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured...  Read More >>

As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment...

Author: H Murav
ISBN: 9780253068804
Format: Paperback
$92.00

An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of...  Read More >>

Literature, Interpretation and Ethics

Literature, Interpretation and Ethics

Author: Colin Davis
ISBN: 9781032439792
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Literature, Interpretation, and Ethics argues for the centrality of hermeneutics in the context of ongoing debates...  Read More >>

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval...

Author: Royall Tyler
ISBN: 9780231214674
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of the crucial decades surrounding the events chronicled...  Read More >>

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