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The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New Concept

The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New...

Author: Ewan Jones
ISBN: 9780813950303
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Incredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used. It likewise had no cultural...  Read More >>

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal,...

Author: Kait Pinder ,  Joel Deshaye
ISBN: 9781771125611
Format: Hardback
$152.90

Essay collection on Leonard Cohen's work organized by the concept of ‘the contemporary’, which helps to explain...  Read More >>

The Cat that Walked by Himself and Other Cat Stories

The Cat that Walked by Himself and Other Cat Stories...

Author:
ISBN: 9780008619930
Format: Paperback
$9.99

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American...

Author: Yogita Goyal (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781009159722
Format: Paperback
$59.49

African American literary production has changed in astounding ways since the 1970s. This book provides a systematic...  Read More >>

Dwelling in Fiction Volume 46: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America

Dwelling in Fiction Volume 46: Poetics of Place and...

Author: Ashley R. Brock
ISBN: 9780810146525
Format: Paperback
$95.04

The radical formal experiments undertaken by writers across Latin America in the mid-twentieth century introduced...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American...

Author: Yogita Goyal (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781009159715
Format: Hardback
$194.06

African American literary production has changed in astounding ways since the 1970s. This book provides a systematic...  Read More >>

Fábula del Poder: Corporalidad, Biopolítica y Violencia en la Narrativa de Sergio Ramírez

Fábula del Poder: Corporalidad, Biopolítica y Violencia...

Author: Daniel Chávez Landeros
ISBN: 9781612499062
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Despite the gravity and violence present in many of Sergio Ramirez Mercado’s short stories and novels, his writing...  Read More >>

Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/Practice/Politics

Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/Practice/Politics...

Author: Paulette M. Rothbauer ,  Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad
ISBN: 9781771121736
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Explores the experience of reading-what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under...  Read More >>

Fábula del Poder: Corporalidad, Biopolítica y Violencia en la Narrativa de Sergio Ramírez

Fábula del Poder: Corporalidad, Biopolítica y Violencia...

Author: Daniel Chávez Landeros
ISBN: 9781612499055
Format: Hardback
$169.40

Despite the gravity and violence present in many of Sergio Ramirez Mercado’s short stories and novels, his writing...  Read More >>

Impresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo México by Manuel Sariñana: A Bilingual Edition of the Original 1908 Picaresque Novella

Impresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo México by Manuel...

Author: Phillip B. Gonzales
ISBN: 9780826365606
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Represents a remarkable literary recovery. For the first time, the novella is presented in its original Spanish...  Read More >>

Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription

Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of...

Author: Alex Benson
ISBN: 9781469674636
Format: Paperback
$59.40

In this fascinating work of literary and cultural history, Alex Benson takes the concept of ‘sound-blindness’ as...  Read More >>

Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription

Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of...

Author: Alex Benson
ISBN: 9781469674629
Format: Hardback
$168.30

In this fascinating work of literary and cultural history, Alex Benson takes the concept of ‘sound-blindness’ as...  Read More >>

Cosmopolitan Love: Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

Cosmopolitan Love: Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence...

Author: Sijia Yao
ISBN: 9780472056538
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Examines the writings of D.H. Lawrence, a British writer whose literature focused primarily on interpersonal relationships...  Read More >>

Anything but Novel: Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative

Anything but Novel: Pushing the Margins in Latin American...

Author: Jennie Irene Daniels
ISBN: 9780817361075
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The first in-depth study in English to analyse post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of...  Read More >>

Cosmopolitan Love: Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

Cosmopolitan Love: Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence...

Author: Sijia Yao
ISBN: 9780472076536
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Examines the writings of D.H. Lawrence, a British writer whose literature focused primarily on interpersonal relationships...  Read More >>

How to Reread a Novel

How to Reread a Novel

Author: Matthew Clark
ISBN: 9780807180709
Format: Paperback
$84.48

A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How...  Read More >>

How to Reread a Novel

How to Reread a Novel

Author: Matthew Clark
ISBN: 9780807180099
Format: Hardback
$132.00

A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How...  Read More >>

The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd

The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William...

Author: Alistair Owen ,  William Boyd
ISBN: 9780241987339
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Acclaimed author Alistair Owen interviews one of the best loved writers of modern times about his life and work...  Read More >>

In Praise of the Minor Character: The Importance of Peripheral Figures in Victorian Literature

In Praise of the Minor Character: The Importance of...

Author: Grace Pregent
ISBN: 9781476687278
Format: Paperback
$110.00

A work is about minor characters and the qualities of minorness in Victorian novels. It offers casual readers and...  Read More >>

The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature

The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature...

Author: Vered Tohar
ISBN: 9780814350829
Format: Paperback
$71.25

This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights

Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights

Author: Paulo Lemos Horta
ISBN: 9781603295970
Format: Paperback
$61.60

Composed from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, The Thousand and One Nights is one of the world’s most widely...  Read More >>

La Plonqui: The Literary Life and Work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas

La Plonqui: The Literary Life and Work of Margarita...

Author: Jesús Rosales ,  Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez
ISBN: 9780816550173
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Celebrating more than forty years of creative writing by Chicana author Margarita Cota-Cardenas, this volume includes...  Read More >>

Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers

Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana...

Author: Norma Elia Cantú ,  Raquel Valle-Sentíes
ISBN: 9780816551811
Format: Paperback
$98.20

This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an...  Read More >>

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