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Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred

Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century...

Author: Dr Emily McAvan (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350280410
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first comprehensive look at the religious significance of this century's contemporary English literature, this...  Read More >>

Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

Author: Chad Schrock (Lee University, USA) ,  Emma Mason (University of Warwick UK)
ISBN: 9781350417458
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book demonstrates how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and...  Read More >>

Theologies of Pain: Literary Bodies and Afflicted Forms in Puritan New England

Theologies of Pain: Literary Bodies and Afflicted Forms...

Author: Lucas Hardy (Associate Professor, Youngstown State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350400405
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Mining unexplored discourses of pain in New England literary texts, this book shows how pain was central in shaping...  Read More >>

Fanfiction as Queer Healing: Femslash Authorship and the Swan Queen Ship

Fanfiction as Queer Healing: Femslash Authorship and...

Author: Dr Alice M. Chapman-Kelly (Fellow-in-Residence, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Senior Lecturer Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow UK)
ISBN: 9781350350908
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first book-length exploration of femflash fanfiction and its implications for wider fan communities, this text...  Read More >>

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Translating

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach...

Author: Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9798765112809
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation,...  Read More >>

The Hera-Zeta Chronicles: As Above So Below

The Hera-Zeta Chronicles: As Above So Below

Author: Zsa Zsa Tudos
ISBN: 9798888961636
Format: Paperback
$83.64

The Hera-Zeta Chronicles allows you to take a peek into the concept of As Above So Below through the life and work...  Read More >>

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature...

Author: Julia C. Obert
ISBN: 9781805966852
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy...  Read More >>

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Author: Stephen O'Neill
ISBN: 9781836244813
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland....  Read More >>

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9781684485901
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction: Confronting Dogmatism, Demagoguery, and Disinformation

Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction: Confronting Dogmatism,...

Author: Professor John Rieder (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
ISBN: 9781350551527
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction’s power to intervene in the social, political, and environmental...  Read More >>

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time...

Author: Edward Royston
ISBN: 9780814259825
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time...

Author: Edward Royston
ISBN: 9780814216132
Format: Hardback
$343.07

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9781684485918
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty...  Read More >>

Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice

Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination...

Author: Anindita Banerjee ,  Sherryl Vint
ISBN: 9780262053679
Format: Paperback
$200.00

The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination...  Read More >>

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

Author: John Brenkman
ISBN: 9780226849447
Format: Paperback
$45.95

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What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You)

What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should...

Author: Naomi Kanakia
ISBN: 9780691251929
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are too difficult, too problematic,...  Read More >>

Subjects

Subjects

Author: Cameron Robak
ISBN: 9798258754769
Format: Paperback
$26.37

For readers who loved Lord of the Flies, The Maze Runner, and Station Eleven In a harsh world without history,...  Read More >>

Ukrainian Literary Modernism of the 1910smid-1930s, Vol II: A Critical Reader

Ukrainian Literary Modernism of the 1910smid-1930s,...

Author: Dr. Halyna Babak ,  Dr. Yuliya Ilchuk
ISBN: 9798897831357
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The Reader introduces Anglophone audiences to the original theoretical writings and poetry produced in Ukraine from...  Read More >>

Ukrainian Literary Modernism of the 1910smid-1930s, Vol I: A Critical Reader

Ukrainian Literary Modernism of the 1910smid-1930s,...

Author: Dr. Halyna Babak ,  Dr. Yuliya Ilchuk
ISBN: 9798897831197
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The Reader introduces Anglophone audiences to the original theoretical writings and poetry produced in Ukraine from...  Read More >>

Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800

Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800

Author: Anastasia Eccles
ISBN: 9780226847382
Format: Paperback
$45.95

This new theory of reader response describes ""perverse attachment,"" or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

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