Literary studies: general books

312909 books were found.

Contesting Labeled Identities: The Sociology of Gentilics in Biblical and Northwest Semitic Literature

Contesting Labeled Identities: The Sociology of Gentilics...

Author: Ki-Eun Jang
ISBN: 9783161626722
Format: Paperback
$248.92

Ki-Eun Jang analysiert Prozesse, durch die im altorientalischen Literaturmilieu Identitätsbezeichnungen beansprucht,...  Read More >>

Shaping British Romantic Literature in Context

Shaping British Romantic Literature in Context

Author: Serena Baiesi
ISBN: 9783034347167
Format: Paperback
$216.35

Shaping British Romantic Literature in Context examines the diverse range of Romantic literature produced during...  Read More >>

Classical Tradition and Medieval Literature

Classical Tradition and Medieval Literature

Author: Guillermo Alvar Nuño ,  Elisa Borsari
ISBN: 9783631778128
Format: Hardback
$129.38

This volume brings together the work of eight specialists on the influence of classical literature in medieval Europe....  Read More >>

Paleface: The Philosophy of the 'Melting-Pot'

Paleface: The Philosophy of the 'Melting-Pot'

Author: Wyndham Lewis
ISBN: 9781025896878
Format: Paperback
$63.23

""Paleface: The Philosophy of the 'Melting-Pot'"" is a provocative and incisive work of cultural and social criticism...  Read More >>

Die Philosophie Ciceros

Die Philosophie Ciceros

Author: Maximilian Forschner
ISBN: 9783111717357
Format: Hardback
$319.41

Cicero gilt als bedeutendster Redner Roms. Verkannt war lange der hohe Rang des Philosophen Cicero und ist es zum...  Read More >>

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing of History in the Greco-Roman World

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing...

Author: John Marincola (Leon Golden Professor Emeritus of Classics, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198979180
Format: Hardback
$246.95

This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and...

Author: Julie Stone Peters (H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780197903957
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational Justice

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational...

Author: Stacey Margolis (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Utah)
ISBN: 9780197839584
Format: Hardback
$194.95

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Post-War US Poetry

The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Post-War US...

Author: Tymek Woodham (University College London, UK.)
ISBN: 9781350417229
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic...  Read More >>

Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary Fiction

Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary...

Author: Dr Daniel Cook (University of Dundee, UK) ,  Daniel Cook (University of Dundee UK)
ISBN: 9781350501959
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings,...  Read More >>

Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic Pastoralism

Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic...

Author: Matthew J. C. Cella
ISBN: 9781666965124
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of the relationships between American rurality, conceptions of wellness and civic “fitness,” and...  Read More >>

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval...

Author: Caleb D. Molstad
ISBN: 9781666979701
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An examination of vernacular authors' expression of religious experience and theology through metaphors of food...  Read More >>

Japanese Forms in American Poetry: Beyond Haiku

Japanese Forms in American Poetry: Beyond Haiku

Author: Ce Rosenow
ISBN: 9781666964226
Format: Hardback
$130.00

An analysis of haiku-related poetic forms that traces their histories and analyzes current trends, while arguing...  Read More >>

Sexual Violence in Comics: The Ethics of Visualizing Trauma

Sexual Violence in Comics: The Ethics of Visualizing...

Author: Lee Okan
ISBN: 9781666929157
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An examination of how artists use comics to challenge dominant portrayals and reclaim narrative control, positioning...  Read More >>

Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s Autofiction: “We Stand up and We Split”

Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s...

Author: Michèle Bacholle
ISBN: 9781666926965
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A close look into systemic violence against women in French society through various forms of rebellion, both real...  Read More >>

Romantic Citizenship and the Transatlantic World: Bordering on British

Romantic Citizenship and the Transatlantic World: Bordering...

Author: Alison Cotti-Lowell
ISBN: 9781666972986
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An examination of evolving ideas about British citizenship in Romantic fiction in the proto-bureaucratic conditions...  Read More >>

Disability in Contemporary American Poetry: Radical Accessibility

Disability in Contemporary American Poetry: Radical...

Author: Declan Gould (Temple University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350456457
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Looking at experimental disability poetry, this book shows how poets from the 1960s to the present develop disability-informed...  Read More >>

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four...

Author: Natalia I. Petrovskaia
ISBN: 9781837723355
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi....  Read More >>

Trauma and Tears in The Book of Margery Kempe

Trauma and Tears in The Book of Margery Kempe

Author: Rachel Scoggins
ISBN: 9781666932362
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Offers a unique perspective to medieval femininity and spirituality through the lens of trauma present within The...  Read More >>

Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony Kushner's Political Plays

Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony...

Author: Arnab Ray
ISBN: 9781666979015
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A study of four plays by Tony Kushner that are most political and pertinent for our time  Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Author: Karen Sullivan
ISBN: 9781837723751
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears...  Read More >>

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures...

Author: Alexander Fyfe
ISBN: 9780813954950
Format: Paperback
$80.99

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Christ’s war: Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian poetry, c.730–c.900 CE

Christ’s war: Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian...

Author: Dr Matthew Bryan Gillis
ISBN: 9781526193780
Format: Hardback
$194.99

Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution...  Read More >>

Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives

Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone...

Author: Michelle Stork
ISBN: 9783032160560
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies...

Author: Vicky Osterweil
ISBN: 9798888903667
Format: Hardback
$47.99

A provocative history of Disney's rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode...  Read More >>

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