Literary studies: general books

315196 books were found.

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Author: Robert Calder
ISBN: 9780299346249
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores the relationship between literature and film, what is involved in adaptation, and how best to judge films...  Read More >>

Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere

Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History...

Author: Elleke Boehmer
ISBN: 9780691262048
Format: Hardback
$59.99

northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia,...  Read More >>

Seriality and Social Change

Seriality and Social Change

Author: Peter Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781803095837
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Can revolution unfold in chapters? Seriality has long shaped how we read, think, and act; Peter Hitchcock explores...  Read More >>

Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose: A Corpus-Based Phraseological Study

Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose:...

Author: Anna Cichosz (University of Lodz) ,  Tomasz Dobrogoszcz (University of Lodz)
ISBN: 9781009625760
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element traces the origins of gender bias in the English language. Situating the linguistic representations...  Read More >>

Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective

Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective...

Author: Kimberley Pager-­McClymont (University of Aberdeen’s Internation Study Centre) ,  Suzanne McClure (University of Liverpool)
ISBN: 9781009511353
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together...  Read More >>

Exhausted Ecologies: Modernism and Environmental Recovery

Exhausted Ecologies: Modernism and Environmental Recovery...

Author: Andrew Kalaidjian (California State University, Dominguez Hills)
ISBN: 9781108745222
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book showcases the importance of ecological themes in modern literature and will appeal to literary scholars,...  Read More >>

A Global History of Literature and the Environment

A Global History of Literature and the Environment

Author: John Parham (University of Worcester) ,  Louise Westling (University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9781107500648
Format: Paperback
$82.77

This book is for an international audience concerned about environmental crisis. It shows how writers across the...  Read More >>

How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change

How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate...

Author: Dr Astrida Neimanis (University of Sydney, Australia) ,  Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton (New York University, Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350467491
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Developing an innovative model for climate change mitigation and adaptation, this book translates feminist theory...  Read More >>

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300–1579

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric...

Author: Holton
ISBN: 9780192873545
Format: Hardback
$202.95

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee and Christianity

J. M. Coetzee and Christianity

Author: Alicia Broggi (Independent scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350500235
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book explores the nexus between religion and literature by examining central developments in J.M. Coetzee’s...  Read More >>

Socialist Transnationality in Translation: Dutch-Language Literature in East Central Europe and the Balkans, 1945–1990

Socialist Transnationality in Translation: Dutch-Language...

Author: Professor or Dr. Wilken Engelbrecht (Univerzita Palackého, Krížkovského, Czech Republic) ,  Professor or Dr. Ton van Kalmthout (Center for the Arts in Society, Leiden University, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9798765113745
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The first study examining the translation and reception of Dutch literature in Eastern and Central Europe during...  Read More >>

Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose: A Corpus-Based Phraseological Study

Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose:...

Author: Anna Cichosz (University of Lodz) ,  Tomasz Dobrogoszcz (University of Lodz)
ISBN: 9781009625807
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element traces the origins of gender bias in the English language. Situating the linguistic representations...  Read More >>

Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective

Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective...

Author: Kimberley Pager-­McClymont (University of Aberdeen’s Internation Study Centre) ,  Suzanne McClure (University of Liverpool)
ISBN: 9781009511360
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together...  Read More >>

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Author: Isabelle Torrance (Assistant Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781350430426
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This intersectional study demonstrates for the first time how the lens of Graeco-Roman antiquity has informed Irish...  Read More >>

Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes

Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes

Author: Dr Eleanor Houghton (Historical costume consultant, writer and illustrator)
ISBN: 9781350514089
Format: Hardback
$50.00

A renowned Brontë scholar and dress historian’s innovative, richly illustrated biography explores Charlotte Brontë's...  Read More >>

Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Author: Professor Sarah D. Phillips (Indiana University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765132203
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era,...  Read More >>

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