Literary studies: general books

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Breta saga

Breta saga

Author: Jonna Louis-Jensen ,  Þorbjörg Helgadóttir
ISBN: 9788763547482
Format: Paperback
$129.38

Breta saga presents the Old Norse translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae in long and short...  Read More >>

Catullus: Volume 51

Catullus: Volume 51

Author: Monica R. Gale (Trinity College Dublin)
ISBN: 9781009709798
Format: Paperback
$46.55

This volume examines Catullus' invective and homoerotic verse and the carmina maiora or 'longer poems', alongside...  Read More >>

Das Kaisertum Nach Mark Aurel: Griechisch - Deutsch

Das Kaisertum Nach Mark Aurel: Griechisch - Deutsch...

Author: Herodian ,  Alfons Städele
ISBN: 9783112224274
Format: Hardback
$174.21

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German...  Read More >>

Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice

Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice...

Author: Subha Mukherji ,  Dunstan Roberts
ISBN: 9783031740954
Format: Paperback
$475.17

Tuning into the collective understanding of law as lived experience, Knowing Justice is a timely and distinctive...  Read More >>

Putting Age in its Place: Long-Term Residential Care in Contemporary Film and Fiction

Putting Age in its Place: Long-Term Residential Care...

Author: Ulla Kriebernegg
ISBN: 9783837664126
Format: Paperback
$90.95

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Plays 1676–1678: Volume 2, Plays 1676–1678

Plays 1676–1678: Volume 2, Plays 1676–1678

Author: Aphra Behn ,  Claire Bowditch (Loughborough University)
ISBN: 9781108471060
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Aphra Behn is renowned as the first professional woman writer in English. The plays in this volume, published and...  Read More >>

Trip to the Moon: Understanding the True Power Of Story

Trip to the Moon: Understanding the True Power Of Story...

Author: John Yorke
ISBN: 9780241631089
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Catullus: Selected Poems

Catullus: Selected Poems

Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus ,  Stephen Mitchell
ISBN: 9780300285475
Format: Paperback
$26.95

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries...  Read More >>

What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic?: What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic?

What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic?: What Makes Islamic...

Author: Jamal J. Elias
ISBN: 9781512828696
Format: Hardback
$139.00

A collection of essays that examines literature in seven languages from across the Islamic world and explores the...  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 >>

Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland: An Anthology of Medieval Irish Texts and Interpretations

Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland: An Anthology...

Author: Michael Clarke (University of Galway, Ireland) ,  Erich Poppe (University of Marburg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350333314
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Through an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this open access...  Read More >>

Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

Author: Professor Mario Telò (University of California, Berkeley, USA) ,  Laura Jansen (University of Bristol UK)
ISBN: 9781350323421
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s...  Read More >>

Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation

Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation

Author: Dr. Carlos F. Grigsby (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9798765119129
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A long overdue examination of Rubén Darío's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics...  Read More >>

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 >>

Transnational Literature of Resistance: Guyana and Palestine, 1950s-1980s

Transnational Literature of Resistance: Guyana and Palestine,...

Author: Professor Salam Darwazah Mir (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765111772
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Fills a gap in comparative studies, interrogating strategies of Empire in dominating the Indigenous and linking...  Read More >>

Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis

Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and...

Author: Professor Paul Allen Miller (Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781350357303
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his...  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: 9781350561045
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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

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