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Borges's Creative Infidelities: Translating Joyce, Woolf and Faulkner

Borges's Creative Infidelities: Translating Joyce, Woolf...

Author: Dr. Leah Leone Anderson (Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
ISBN: 9781501398322
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Using comparative analyses of source and target texts, Leone Anderson examines Jorge Luis Borges’s residual presence...  Read More >>

Most Favoured

Most Favoured

Author: David Ireland
ISBN: 9781350628434
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Postdictatorial State

Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Postdictatorial...

Author: David Vila Dieguez ,  Isabela Raygoza
ISBN: 9798887441047
Format: Paperback
$44.99

What does democracy sound like when it's shouted through a distortion pedal? In 1975, Spain emerged from the long...  Read More >>

Writings on Translation

Writings on Translation

Author: Abdessalam Benabdelali ,  Marouane Zakhir
ISBN: 9781803095110
Format: Paperback
$44.95

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  Read More >>

Medea

Medea

Author: Euripides ,  J. Michael Walton
ISBN: 9781350523722
Format: Paperback
$21.99

About Sheila Murnaghan's translation  Read More >>

Deception: Mind, Metaphor, Memes, and Mimicry Machines

Deception: Mind, Metaphor, Memes, and Mimicry Machines...

Author: Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
ISBN: 9781350466579
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Argues that lying is fundamental to the survival of the human species, through a series of philosophical, psychological...  Read More >>

Italian Futurism and the Development of English Literary Modernism

Italian Futurism and the Development of English Literary...

Author: Robyn Jakeman (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350327689
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Going against most accounts of Futurism in England, this book unpacks the profound influence of Italian Futurism’s...  Read More >>

Augustine’s Confessions and Shakespeare’s King Lear: Power, Parenthood, and Presence

Augustine’s Confessions and Shakespeare’s King Lear:...

Author: Kim Paffenroth (Iona College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350500884
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Addresses the main characters’ thoughts on women and on God  Read More >>

The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction

The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction

Author: Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350473096
Format: Hardback
$110.00

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry

Author: Ann Vickery (Deakin University) ,  Philip Mead (University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781009237192
Format: Hardback
$310.50

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry is the authoritative volume on Australian poetry. It provides multiple...  Read More >>

Anglo-German Entanglements in English Fiction: From the Cold War to Brexit

Anglo-German Entanglements in English Fiction: From...

Author: Daniela Keller
ISBN: 9781666934885
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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A Disciplined Passion: Essays on the Works of Keith Garebian

A Disciplined Passion: Essays on the Works of Keith...

Author: Elana Wolff ,  David Bateman
ISBN: 9781771839617
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Beginning with a friend and colleague's reminiscences of Keith Garebian's early teaching years at a Catholic high...  Read More >>

Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life

Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life

Author: Aleksandr Prigozhin
ISBN: 9781421452241
Format: Paperback
$82.99

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  Read More >>

Best Debut Short Stories 2025: The PEN America Dau Prize

Best Debut Short Stories 2025: The PEN America Dau Prize...

Author: Lydi Conklin ,  Dionne Irving
ISBN: 9781646223152
Format: Paperback
$35.00

The essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature The essential annual guide to the newest voices in...  Read More >>

Azucena

Azucena

Author: M. de Gracia Concepcion ,  Patrick Rosal (Rutgers-Camden)
ISBN: 9780892556243
Format: Paperback
$32.95

M. de Gracia Concepcion explores the affective landscape of the Philippine diaspora in this classic collection,...  Read More >>

Killer Bodies: The Rise and Fall of ""Bad Girl"" Comics

Killer Bodies: The Rise and Fall of ""Bad Girl"" Comics...

Author: Joseph Crawford
ISBN: 9781978841963
Format: Paperback
$71.50

This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>

Aerial Archives of Race: African American Cultural Expressions and the Black Nuclear Pacific

Aerial Archives of Race: African American Cultural Expressions...

Author: Etsuko Taketani
ISBN: 9780520416772
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition

The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab...

Author: Sarah R. Bin Tyeer
ISBN: 9780520424975
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

The Textual Townsman: Writing Urban Identity in Early Modern Japan

The Textual Townsman: Writing Urban Identity in Early...

Author: Thomas Gaubatz
ISBN: 9780231221313
Format: Paperback
$61.95

In this innovative and interdisciplinary book, Thomas Gaubatz offers a fresh approach to understanding the literature...  Read More >>

Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist

Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist

Author: Tracy Carr
ISBN: 9781496859693
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Collected interviews with the National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan and many other critically...  Read More >>

Real and Imagined Worlds: Claude McKay's Poetry and Prose

Real and Imagined Worlds: Claude McKay's Poetry and...

Author: Charles Scruggs
ISBN: 9781496860392
Format: Paperback
$69.99

An exploration of the various literary and artistic influences of a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance  Read More >>

The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition

The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab...

Author: Sarah R. Bin Tyeer
ISBN: 9780520424968
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing

The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing

Author: Ina C. Seethaler ,  Tripthi Pillai
ISBN: 9781032431055
Format: Hardback
$483.00

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing...  Read More >>

Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life

Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life

Author: Aleksandr Prigozhin
ISBN: 9781421452234
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  Read More >>

Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah

Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli...

Author: Jane Kanarek
ISBN: 9781684582990
Format: Paperback
$74.95

""Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud...  Read More >>

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