Literary studies: general books

315156 books were found.

Postcolonial Naturalism: Periodization, World-Literature, and the Anglophone Novel

Postcolonial Naturalism: Periodization, World-Literature,...

Author: Eric D. Smith
ISBN: 9781836245612
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Supported by careful, theoretically and critically sophisticated analyses of exemplary literary works, this important...  Read More >>

The Arthurian Texts of the Percy Folio

The Arthurian Texts of the Percy Folio

Author: John Withrington ,  Gillian Rogers
ISBN: 9781836245230
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A critical edition of all eleven Arthurian texts in the 'Percy Folio', with transcriptions taken directly from BL...  Read More >>

City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi

City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular...

Author: Nathan L. M. Tabor
ISBN: 9781469690223
Format: Paperback
$92.99

For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushāʿirahs, literary competitions for...  Read More >>

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing (Esprios Classics): Edited by Asa Don Dickinson

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing (Esprios Classics): Edited...

Author: Neltje Blanchan
ISBN: 9781714007721
Format: Paperback
$87.09

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing was published in 1917 (and republished in 1922) as a result of an adaptation by Asa Don...  Read More >>

Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Author: Kathy Lavezzo
ISBN: 9781531512415
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism...  Read More >>

Writings on Translation

Writings on Translation

Author: Abdessalam Benabdelali ,  Marouane Zakhir
ISBN: 9781803095110
Format: Paperback
$44.95

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  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 >>

Mad Fictions: Psychiatry, Disability and the Politics of Mental Distress in African Literature

Mad Fictions: Psychiatry, Disability and the Politics...

Author: Femi Eromosele
ISBN: 9781836244776
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. Mad Fictions is the first...  Read More >>

Disruptive Discourses by Francophone Women

Disruptive Discourses by Francophone Women

Author: Polly Galis ,  Ciara Gorman
ISBN: 9781836245407
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Disruptive Discourses by Francophone Women engages with the notion of disruption in women’s cultural production...  Read More >>

Schreibweisen: Autorschaft, Schreibpraktiken und -formate im Feld der Kinder- und Jugendmedien

Schreibweisen: Autorschaft, Schreibpraktiken und -formate...

Author: Ute Dettmar ,  Lena Hoffmann
ISBN: 9783662719138
Format: Paperback
$237.57

Literatursoziologische Fragen sind seit einiger Zeit wieder ins Blickfeld der germanistischen Forschung gerückt,...  Read More >>

„Mythopoesie der Liebe“: Hölderlins später Gesang und sein Werkkontext

„Mythopoesie der Liebe“: Hölderlins später Gesang und...

Author: Eveline Quentmeier
ISBN: 9783662721728
Format: Hardback
$448.77

Das von der Forschung vernachlässigte und kontrovers diskutierte späte Gedicht Hölderlins ist eine elegische Hymne,...  Read More >>

Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson

Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Marianne Noble (American University, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781108722216
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and...  Read More >>

Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Author: Kathy Lavezzo
ISBN: 9781531512408
Format: Hardback
$243.00

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism...  Read More >>

Euthydemus. Gorgias

Euthydemus. Gorgias

Author: Plato ,  Christopher Emlyn-Jones
ISBN: 9780674997691
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Socrates against sophistry. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and...  Read More >>

Writings on Translation

Writings on Translation

Author: Abdessalam Benabdelali ,  Marouane Zakhir
ISBN: 9781803095103
Format: Hardback
$190.95

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  Read More >>

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature: Three Volume Set Volume I A-F Volume II G-P Volume III Q-Z

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean...

Author: Professor Gordon Williams
ISBN: 9780485113938
Format: Hardback
$2692.80

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws...  Read More >>

Gendertrash From Hell: The First Print Collection of the Zine That Changed Everything

Gendertrash From Hell: The First Print Collection of...

Author: Mirha-Soleil Ross ,  Trish Salah
ISBN: 9781964322087
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A long-lost zine reveals the secret history of contemporary transgender culture ""A breathtaking archive of our...  Read More >>

Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk

Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour...

Author: Fiona Macintosh ,  David Ricks
ISBN: 9781032585086
Format: Hardback
$375.19

The present volume honours this distinctive voice in literary studies with a range of papers addressing some of...  Read More >>

Modern Japanese Writers and Kanshi: Exophonic Literary Performance and the Shifting Sinosphere

Modern Japanese Writers and Kanshi: Exophonic Literary...

Author: Christopher T. Keaveney
ISBN: 9781680535860
Format: Hardback
$161.70

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters

Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist...

Author: Katja Haustein (University of Kent, Canterbury)
ISBN: 9781009363273
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Alone With Others provides an unparalleled intellectual-historical account of tact in modernist literature, film,...  Read More >>

A Funny Thing: Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined

A Funny Thing: Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined...

Author: Eugenia Zuroski (McMaster University, Ontario)
ISBN: 9781009486262
Format: Paperback
$77.60

For any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction and how they challenge colonial...  Read More >>

Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography

Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography

Author: John Schad
ISBN: 9781800089693
Format: Paperback
$77.63

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Euripides: Fabulae Vol. II (Euripidis Fabulae Tomus II, Supplices, Electra, Hercules, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion)

Euripides: Fabulae Vol. II (Euripidis Fabulae Tomus...

Author: James Diggle
ISBN: 9780198865612
Format: Hardback
$94.95

This is a second edition of the second volume of James Diggle's Oxford Classical Text of Euripides (1981). This...  Read More >>

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