Literary studies: general books

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Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset

Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset...

Author: Professor Joseph Acquisto (Chair, Dept. of Romance Languages and Linguistics, University of Vermont, USA)
ISBN: 9798765111475
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature

Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature

Author: W. G. Sebald ,  Dr Jo Catling
ISBN: 9780141037028
Format: Paperback
$26.99

From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection...  Read More >>

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Author: Jimmy Packham (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781009433754
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Author: Gary Wade (University of Notre Dame, Australia)
ISBN: 9781009541336
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The book explores how Catholicism operates in Seamus Heaney's poetry at the level of a felt sense. It is written...  Read More >>

A History of Poetry in Italy: 1200–1600

A History of Poetry in Italy: 1200–1600

Author: Guyda Armstrong (University of Manchester) ,  Rhiannon Daniels (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781009424677
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Overturning the traditional canonical narrative, this history reveals the poetry of Italy between 1200 and 1600...  Read More >>

Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling

Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great...

Author: Ed Simon (Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765123225
Format: Hardback
$120.00

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture...

Author: Timothy Heimlich (Duke University, North Carolina)
ISBN: 9781009618878
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This ambitious study argues that in the long eighteenth century the meanings of Britain and Britishness, once synonymous...  Read More >>

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular...

Author: Stephen Orgel (Stanford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350561052
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Katherine G. Charles (Washington College)
ISBN: 9781009588621
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Investigating the peculiar literary history of interpolated tales and the ways in which they persistently unnerve...  Read More >>

Weaving Words, Shaping Worlds: Intertextual Echoes and Reader Evaluation in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction

Weaving Words, Shaping Worlds: Intertextual Echoes and...

Author: Azka Khan
ISBN: 9781666953633
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of how Pakistani Anglophone novels engage with prior texts to shape meaning, reinforce themes, and...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton and German Culture

Edith Wharton and German Culture

Author: Maria Novella Mercuri
ISBN: 9781666926330
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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