Literary studies: general books

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The Unraveling Heart: Women's Oral Poetics and Literary Vernacularization in Marathi

The Unraveling Heart: Women's Oral Poetics and Literary...

Author: Madhuri Deshmukh
ISBN: 9780231217934
Format: Hardback
$248.95

This groundbreaking book shows that women’s songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular...  Read More >>

The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition

The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab...

Author: Sarah R. Bin Tyeer
ISBN: 9780520424968
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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Wounded Knights: Violence, Masculinity, and Medieval Courtly Love

Wounded Knights: Violence, Masculinity, and Medieval...

Author: Alfred Thomas
ISBN: 9783032042606
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly...  Read More >>

British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century...

Author: Melissa J. Ganz (Marquette University, Wisconsin)
ISBN: 9781009224130
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Revealing how legal developments in Britain shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing, this volume provides...  Read More >>

Epiphanios the Monk: Life of Mary, the Theotokos, and Life and Acts of St Andrew the Apostle

Epiphanios the Monk: Life of Mary, the Theotokos, and...

Author: Mary B. Cunningham
ISBN: 9781835537985
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This volume provides the first English (or indeed any modern) translation of two early ninth-century hagiographical...  Read More >>

Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)

Representations of China in Latin American Literature...

Author: Maria Montt Strabucchi
ISBN: 9781836245582
Format: Paperback
$64.66

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library...  Read More >>

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 >>

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