Literary studies: general books

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Two English-Language Translators of Jin Ping Mei: From Lotus to Plum

Two English-Language Translators of Jin Ping Mei: From...

Author: Shuangjin Xiao
ISBN: 9781032751528
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities

Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and...

Author: Heather Alberro ,  Emrah Atasoy
ISBN: 9781032385914
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature

Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature...

Author: Christopher Smith
ISBN: 9780472076871
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Develops a theory of how texts can use different types of anachronisms to challenge or rewrite history, play with...  Read More >>

Ironie und Ambiguität im Ijobbuch

Ironie und Ambiguität im Ijobbuch

Author: Tobias Häner
ISBN: 9783161624025
Format: Hardback
$395.37

Ironie und Ambiguität spielen in neueren Untersuchungen und Kommentaren zum Ijobbuch eine nicht unbedeutende Rolle....  Read More >>

Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America

Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the...

Author: Camille Owens
ISBN: 9781479812912
Format: Hardback
$193.00

"""A history of childhood that revises the story of manhood, race, and human hierarchy in America""--"  Read More >>

Relics, Dreams, Voyages: World Baroque

Relics, Dreams, Voyages: World Baroque

Author: Peter Davidson
ISBN: 9781526169341
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the...  Read More >>

Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition

Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic...

Author: Celia Campbell
ISBN: 9780299348748
Format: Hardback
$263.87

A bold new interpretive approach to Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Campbell argues that the poem’s first pentad draws a programmatic...  Read More >>

The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888–1900

The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings,...

Author: Michael G. Kelly ,  Ken Roemer
ISBN: 9781800798649
Format: Paperback
$103.50

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The Letter from Prison: Literature of Cultural Resistance in Early Modern England

The Letter from Prison: Literature of Cultural Resistance...

Author: W. Clark Gilpin (University of Chicago Divinity School)
ISBN: 9780271097350
Format: Hardback
$142.95

"""Analyzes prison letters from early modern England to explore the enduring features of this literary form within...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature

The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature

Author: Gigi Adair ,  Rebecca Fasselt
ISBN: 9781032191690
Format: Hardback
$431.00

The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature demonstrates the influence of the “age of migration” on literature....  Read More >>

Maidens or Monsters?: Amazons and Goddesses, Queens and Temptresses in Medieval Legend

Maidens or Monsters?: Amazons and Goddesses, Queens...

Author: Chantry Westwell
ISBN: 9780712355063
Format: Hardback
$77.63

This exquisite book builds on ongoing trends for re-telling classical and medieval stories from the perspective...  Read More >>

The Human Tragicomedy: the Reception of Apuleius’ Golden Ass in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

The Human Tragicomedy: the Reception of Apuleius’ Golden...

Author: Mateusz Stróżyński
ISBN: 9789004695832
Format: Hardback
$287.76

The present volume focusses on the reception of Apuleius’ Golden Ass in the 20th and the 21st centuries, juxtaposing...  Read More >>

Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism in Contemporary Literature

Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism...

Author: Mariam Popal
ISBN: 9783837672619
Format: Paperback
$99.95

Popal investigates touch in the context of the affectivity unleashed by humor, where often touching spaces ensue...  Read More >>

Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature: From Natsume Sôseki to Ishimure Michiko

Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature:...

Author: Reiko Abe Auestad
ISBN: 9781032539102
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book takes the unique approach of combining cognitive approaches with more established close-reading methods...  Read More >>

Central Europe in Symbolic and Literary Geography

Central Europe in Symbolic and Literary Geography

Author: Miloš Zelenka
ISBN: 9783631906996
Format: Hardback
$98.32

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The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre

The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre

Author: James H. Kane ,  Keagan J. Brewer (University of Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367489656
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book picks up the threads of William’s narrative soon after it breaks off in 1184 and goes on to provide a...  Read More >>

Phryne of Thespiae: Courtesan, Muse, and Myth

Phryne of Thespiae: Courtesan, Muse, and Myth

Author: Laura McClure (Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Literature Studies, Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Literature Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
ISBN: 9780197580851
Format: Paperback
$63.95

Although Phryne is considered the most famous of the many Greek courtesans who flocked to Athens during the fourth...  Read More >>

Marcel Proust: A Very Short Introduction

Marcel Proust: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Joshua Landy (Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780197586556
Format: Paperback
$22.95

100 years after Proust's death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At...  Read More >>

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Matthew Townend (Professor of English, University of York)
ISBN: 9780192882042
Format: Paperback
$18.95

This Very Short Introduction provides an accessible and authoritative guide to Tolkien's works, and it places The...  Read More >>

Body Behaviour and Identity Construction in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature

Body Behaviour and Identity Construction in Ancient...

Author: Andreas Serafim
ISBN: 9781032288581
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of “semi-volitional bodily...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity

Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology...

Author: Adam Zucker (Associate Professor, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
ISBN: 9780198906773
Format: Hardback
$161.95

A light-stepping, illuminating study of words and characters in Shakespeare's plays that pertain to the idea of...  Read More >>

The Homeric Doloneia: Evolution and Shaping of Iliad 10

The Homeric Doloneia: Evolution and Shaping of Iliad...

Author: Christos C. Tsagalis (Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
ISBN: 9780192870988
Format: Hardback
$249.95

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by...  Read More >>

Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Nicholas Grene (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Trinity College Dublin)
ISBN: 9780198893073
Format: Hardback
$177.95

An in-depth study of Irish theatre in the contemporary period, including major companies and playwrights, that draws...  Read More >>

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