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Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the Era of Neoliberalism, 1981-1984

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the...

Author: José Antonio Arellano (United States Air Force Academy)
ISBN: 9781009532938
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

Angels, Demons, and Demigods: An Encyclopedia of Supernatural Beings in Story and on Screen

Angels, Demons, and Demigods: An Encyclopedia of Supernatural...

Author: David A. Salomon (Christopher Newport University, USA) ,  Kelly A. O'Connor-Salomon (Christopher Newport University, USA)
ISBN: 9781440874413
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This encyclopedia examines famous and influential depictions of angels, demons, and demigods in film, television,...  Read More >>

Writing Herstory through Ancient Greek Letters: Representations of Women in Fictional Epistolography

Writing Herstory through Ancient Greek Letters: Representations...

Author: Antonios Pontoropoulos (Swedish Institute in Rome, Italy)
ISBN: 9781350401754
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first comprehensive feminist reading of ancient Greek fictional letter collections.  Read More >>

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

Author: Dr Penny Bradshaw (Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Cumbria, UK)
ISBN: 9781350453357
Format: Hardback
$100.00

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding...  Read More >>

Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and Segmentary Narrative

Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and...

Author: Natalie Swain (Acadia University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350407244
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examines Ovid’s Amores through a comics-based methodology to demonstrate how Latin elegy uses its segmented format...  Read More >>

Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing

Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing

Author: Professor Karin Kukkonen (Professor in Comparative Literature, University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781350522664
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Using author interviews and in-depth manuscript case studies, this book explores the process of creativity in literature...  Read More >>

The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long 1980s

The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Amy Burge (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Dr. Jodi McAlister (Deakin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9798765121702
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Offers a dedicated and detailed theorization and genre study of the ""bonkbuster,"" a phenomenally popular genre...  Read More >>

Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria: French-colonial Policy, Rabbis and Halachic Writing

Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria: French-colonial...

Author: Vered Sakal (Christopher Newport University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350534223
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A survey of indigenous Judaism in colonial Algeria from a Halachic perspective, looking at the transition from Muslim-Ottoman...  Read More >>

Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War

Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from...

Author: James Aaron Green (University of Vienna, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350374713
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first book-length study of fictions of radical life extension, this book recovers a major but as-yet unrecognized...  Read More >>

The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline, and Scale

The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline,...

Author: Professor or Dr. Mark Lussier (Arizona State University, USA) ,  Dr. or Prof. Richard C. Sha (American University, Washington D.C., USA)
ISBN: 9798765125281
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection shows how transformative the study of rhythm can be across the humanities...  Read More >>

The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World

The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René...

Author: Dr Benoît Chantre (Mimetic Research Association, France) ,  Professor Paul Dumouchel (University of Québec-Montréal, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350532878
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A one-of-a-kind overview of the lasting impact of mimetic theory and the extent of its interdisciplinary applications,...  Read More >>

Martha Graham's Greek Myth-Based Dances and Her Collaboration with Isamu Noguchi

Martha Graham's Greek Myth-Based Dances and Her Collaboration...

Author: Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350160163
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An exploration of classical reception through dance, considering the particular role of Martha Graham’s collaborations...  Read More >>

American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century

American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century...

Author: Xavier Kalck (University of Lille, France)
ISBN: 9781350419476
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Offering a new introduction to an important yet overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines...  Read More >>

Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism: Desire as Power

Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism:...

Author: Professor Chielozona Eze (Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research professor of African and African American literary and cultural studies, Northeastern Illinois University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350405677
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An examination of the ethical and social assumptions of Zora Neale Hurston’s aesthetics and feminist visions, this...  Read More >>

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics...

Author: Nick Katsiadas ,  Carl Sell
ISBN: 9781666971484
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, connecting Tolkien...  Read More >>

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture: Implicit Theology, Secular Spirituality, and Speculative Fiction

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture:...

Author: Karen Trimble Alliaume ,  Maryellen Davis Collett
ISBN: 9781666934854
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Employing theoretical lenses of implicit theology and secular spirituality, this book blurs the boundaries between...  Read More >>

The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750-1900

The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany,...

Author: Professor Mary Helen Dupree (Georgetown University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765158265
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Examines the practice of literary declamation in German literature and its place alongside print culture in the...  Read More >>

100 Poems to Grow Your Confidence

100 Poems to Grow Your Confidence

Author: Liz Ison
ISBN: 9781837330034
Format: Hardback
$27.99

A collection of upbeat, empowering and encouraging poems aimed at anyone who is looking for a boost of confidence. ...  Read More >>

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Author: Tamara Hundorova ,  Tanya Savchynska
ISBN: 9798897831166
Format: Hardback
$125.00

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

The Spirit Within (A Haunting... Perhaps A Horror)

The Spirit Within (A Haunting... Perhaps A Horror)

Author: Jo Anna
ISBN: 9798295414183
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Get lost in this epic, short tale of Josie and Nathaniel... A bittersweet, Gothic romance... Journey into Josie's...  Read More >>

The Lady Who Paints (A Poem in Story)

The Lady Who Paints (A Poem in Story)

Author: Jo Anna ,  Jo Ann Gray
ISBN: 9798295454448
Format: Paperback
$47.49

A short tale, a poem in story... Get lost in this epic haunting of Cleo Atcheson... A mere Legend... She remains...  Read More >>

Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History

Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe,...

Author: Gayle Rogers ,  Svetlana Smolenskaya
ISBN: 9798887199825
Format: Hardback
$60.00

В своей книге Гейл Роджерс реконструирует межкультурные связи двух ключевых модернистских движений — британского...  Read More >>

Dragon Pearls; The First Five Forms

Dragon Pearls; The First Five Forms

Author: D E Dunham
ISBN: 9798231851430
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Dragon Pearls; The First Five Forms is a unique collection of minimalist poetry and fables presented by D. E. Dunham....  Read More >>

The Chronicle of Oddities: A Compendium of Wondrous Fables

The Chronicle of Oddities: A Compendium of Wondrous...

Author: G Minerva
ISBN: 9798233782251
Format: Paperback
$29.01

Product Description What if the greatest mysteries of our world are better left undisturbed? In The Chronicle...  Read More >>

The Death Drive: Philosophy, Literature, Theory

The Death Drive: Philosophy, Literature, Theory

Author: Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Texas A&M University-Victoria, USA) ,  Professor Paul Allen Miller (Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781350465671
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary...  Read More >>

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