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Urdu Adab aur Fuhsh-Nigari: (Research and Criticism)

Urdu Adab aur Fuhsh-Nigari: (Research and Criticism)...

Author: Syed Hyderabadi
ISBN: 9789358729436
Format: Paperback
$76.53

This book contains important and useful essays based on the research and analysis of pornography in Urdu literature....  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

Author: Emily Orlando (Fairfield University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350349759
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art...  Read More >>

Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability

Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country...

Author: Kemeshia Randle Swanson
ISBN: 9781496850652
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Examines the extent to which the politics of respectability diminish joy and increase sorrow throughout the lifespan...  Read More >>

Conversations with Ben Okri

Conversations with Ben Okri

Author: Vanessa Guignery
ISBN: 9781496851567
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian...  Read More >>

Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be

Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be

Author: Kenneth B. Kidd ,  Derritt Mason
ISBN: 9781496851031
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Offers theoretical meditations on the category of children’s and young adult literature as well as case studies...  Read More >>

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Author: Earl E. Fitz
ISBN: 9781612499420
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such...  Read More >>

Conversations with Ben Okri

Conversations with Ben Okri

Author: Vanessa Guignery
ISBN: 9781496851550
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian...  Read More >>

Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be

Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be

Author: Kenneth B. Kidd ,  Derritt Mason
ISBN: 9781496851024
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Offers theoretical meditations on the category of children’s and young adult literature as well as case studies...  Read More >>

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Author: Earl E. Fitz
ISBN: 9781612499413
Format: Hardback
$169.40

Explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such...  Read More >>

Writers Who Changed History

Writers Who Changed History

Author: DK ,  James Naughtie
ISBN: 9780744096958
Format: Hardback
$105.60

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers...  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 >>

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535877770
Format: Hardback
$1063.92

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Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays & Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535877756
Format: Hardback
$1425.60

"""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Nineteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535877725
Format: Hardback
$1425.60

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary Influence

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary...

Author: David Greven
ISBN: 9780813951027
Format: Paperback
$104.28

Explores the English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race....  Read More >>

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary Influence

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary...

Author: David Greven
ISBN: 9780813951010
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Explores the English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race....  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 >>

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 >>

Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry

Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African...

Author: Susanna L. Sacks
ISBN: 9781625347671
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Introduces readers to the southern African poetry scene in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, illustrating how...  Read More >>

Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment

Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique...

Author: D. Marcel DeCoste
ISBN: 9780807181539
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the...  Read More >>

Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short Fiction

Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short...

Author: John Beall
ISBN: 9780807181157
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Analyses more than a dozen pieces of Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and...  Read More >>

The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry

The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary...

Author: Annette Debo
ISBN: 9780810146877
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future, this volume focuses on...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

Author: Conrad Steel
ISBN: 9781609389314
Format: Paperback
$244.20

Shows how the history of poetry - with its particular formal affordances, and the particular hopes and fears we...  Read More >>

Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse

Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse

Author: Markus Wierschem
ISBN: 9781611864823
Format: Paperback
$112.20

Elegantly written and deeply engaged with previous scholarship as well as interviews with the novelist, this study...  Read More >>

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