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Plutarch's Rhythmic Prose

Plutarch's Rhythmic Prose

Author: G. O. Hutchinson (Regius Professor of Greek, Regius Professor of Greek, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198821717
Format: Hardback
$206.00

In the earlier Roman Empire much Greek prose followed one organized rhythmic system, a bit like poetry. This volume...  Read More >>

Prison Writing of Latin America

Prison Writing of Latin America

Author: Dr Joey Whitfield (Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781501334627
Format: Hardback
$220.00

""A critical study of key texts and moments from the last 100 years of Latin American prison literature""--  Read More >>

First Contact and Time Travel: Selected Essays and Short Stories

First Contact and Time Travel: Selected Essays and Short...

Author: Zoran Živković
ISBN: 9783319905501
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Two shorter essays on the second topic - time travel in SF literature - introduce, amongst others, the well-known...  Read More >>

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and...

Author: Megan Quigley (Villanova University, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781107461154
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness marries the artistic and philosophical versions of vagueness, linking the development...  Read More >>

The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

Author: Professor Philip Tew (Brunel University, United Kingdom) ,  Dr James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781350011687
Format: Hardback
$300.00

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British...  Read More >>

Geometry of the Passions: Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use

Geometry of the Passions: Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy...

Author: Remo Bodei ,  Gianpiero W. Doebler
ISBN: 9781487503369
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The passions have long been condemned as the creator of disturbance and the purveyor of the temporary loss of reason,...  Read More >>

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Author: John Cleland ,  Richard Terry
ISBN: 9781554812967
Format: Paperback
$58.74

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Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban-American Fiction: Missing Pictures and Imagining Loss and Nostalgia

Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban-American Fiction: Missing...

Author: Louisa Söllner
ISBN: 9789004359956
Format: Hardback
$380.16

Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban-American Fiction introduces the concept of photographic ekphrasis as a reading tool...  Read More >>

The Women in His Life: Classical Dramatic Structure and the Climax of Emotions in Mann's  Little Herr Friedemann

The Women in His Life: Classical Dramatic Structure...

Author: S a Cowan
ISBN: 9781478795728
Format: Paperback
$23.16

Though much has been written about Thomas Mann's seminal short story Little Herr Friedemann since it first appeared...  Read More >>

Thomas Mann - Stefan Zweig. Briefwechsel, Dokumente Und Schnittpunkte: Kartonierte Sonderausgabe

Thomas Mann - Stefan Zweig. Briefwechsel, Dokumente...

Author: Katrin Bedenig ,  Franz Zeder
ISBN: 9783465043737
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Island Colonizers and Issues of Race and Class: An Analysis of a Dozen Literature and Film Classics

Island Colonizers and Issues of Race and Class: An Analysis...

Author: Matthew C Stelly
ISBN: 9781727370232
Format: Paperback
$26.40

This book seeks to present a scholarly and Africentric viewpoint that answers the question, why do so-called 'civilized'...  Read More >>

From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon

From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women...

Author: Mattias Bostrom
ISBN: 9780802127891
Format: Paperback
$47.52

A talented Sherlock Holmes expert brings to life the history of one of the most enduring characters in literature,...  Read More >>

American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring

American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring

Author: William Giraldi (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781631493904
Format: Hardback
$79.20

One of the most gifted literary essayists of his generation defends stylistic boldness and intellectual daring in...  Read More >>

Shifting Subjectivities in Contemporary Fiction and Film from Spain

Shifting Subjectivities in Contemporary Fiction and...

Author: Jennifer Brady ,  Meredith L. Jeffers
ISBN: 9781527507777
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This collection of essays analyzes shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced...  Read More >>

The Power of Silence: Exploration of Muteness in Jerzy Kosinski's «The Painted Bird» and Ken Kesey's «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest»

The Power of Silence: Exploration of Muteness in Jerzy...

Author: Hasine Şen
ISBN: 9783631745939
Format: Hardback
$95.48

This book discusses silence as a state born either by trauma-inflicted muteness or deliberate abstinence from speech...  Read More >>

W. G. Sebald

W. G. Sebald

Author: Uwe Schutte
ISBN: 9780746312995
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights W.G. Sebald’s double role as writer...  Read More >>

Bed-Stuy Is Burning: A Novel

Bed-Stuy Is Burning: A Novel

Author: Brian Platzer
ISBN: 9781501146961
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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The Architecture of Space-Time in the Novels of Jane Austen

The Architecture of Space-Time in the Novels of Jane...

Author: Ruta Baublyté Kaufmann
ISBN: 9783319900100
Format: Hardback
$184.77

This book argues that there are recurrent spatiotemporal patterns and structures in six Jane Austen novels which...  Read More >>

W. G. Sebald

W. G. Sebald

Author: Uwe Schutte
ISBN: 9780746312988
Format: Hardback
$185.01

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Composition Book College Ruled: Elegant Indigo purple and White Damask Notebook for school, Cute Journal for girls, boys, kids, students, teachers, class & office supplies

Composition Book College Ruled: Elegant Indigo purple...

Author: Blue Sky Press
ISBN: 9781725673632
Format: Paperback
$18.40

Composition book, perfect for class notes, recipes, sketching, writing, organizing, doodling, drawing, lists, journaling...  Read More >>

Acid

Acid

Author: Sangeetha Sreenivasan
ISBN: 9780670090914
Format: Hardback
$27.50

""First published in Malayalam by DC Books, Kottayam 2016""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

Annotated Big Sleep

Annotated Big Sleep

Author: Raymond Chandler ,  Owen Hill
ISBN: 9780804168885
Format: Paperback
$65.00

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La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique

La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique...

Author: Isabelle Roussel-Gillet ,  Évelyne Thoizet
ISBN: 9789004366169
Format: Hardback
$440.88

Dans La Miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique, divers artistes contemporains et spécialistes...  Read More >>

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