Literary studies: general books

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Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia: The Secret Order of Shandeans

Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia:...

Author: Peter Budrin (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Comparative Literature, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London)
ISBN: 9780198941743
Format: Hardback
$218.95

This volume explores the early Soviet reception of Laurence Sterne. By reconstructing individual readerly encounters...  Read More >>

Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity: Classics, Imagism, and the Great War

Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity: Classics, Imagism,...

Author: Elizabeth Vandiver (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Emerita, Whitman College)
ISBN: 9780198958598
Format: Hardback
$296.95

This book examines the work of Richard Aldington, a poet, war poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator...  Read More >>

Translation and Gender: Translating in the ‘Era of Feminism'

Translation and Gender: Translating in the ‘Era of Feminism'...

Author: Luise von Flotow (University of Ottawa, Canada.)
ISBN: 9781032783321
Format: Paperback
$108.65

This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a “gendered” way of...  Read More >>

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of...

Author: Theodore Hughes (Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780231186070
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer...

Author: Holly A. Crocker
ISBN: 9781512829679
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James

Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience...

Author: Jane F. Thrailkill
ISBN: 9781512829624
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This collective study of the James siblings--Alice, William, and Henry--lights up their shared intellectual project:...  Read More >>

Friendship: Philosophical Explorations

Friendship: Philosophical Explorations

Author: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University, USA) ,  Andrew Huddleston (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781032877976
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Friendship: Philosophical Explorations will be of interest to those in philosophy studying and researching ethics...  Read More >>

Translation and Gender: Translating in the ‘Era of Feminism'

Translation and Gender: Translating in the ‘Era of Feminism'...

Author: Luise von Flotow (University of Ottawa, Canada.)
ISBN: 9781032783314
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a “gendered” way of...  Read More >>

The Bible Interpreted by Women in Early Modern Italy: Promoting Dignity and Agency

The Bible Interpreted by Women in Early Modern Italy:...

Author: Erminia Ardissino
ISBN: 9781041158806
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This volume studies initial attempts by Italian women of the early modern period to assert their dignity and gender...  Read More >>

Readings in the Cantos: Vol. 3

Readings in the Cantos: Vol. 3

Author: Richard Parker ,  Alexander Howard
ISBN: 9781638040286
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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The Trinity Homilies: A Corrected Edition of the Early Middle English Sermon-Collection in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B. 14. 52

The Trinity Homilies: A Corrected Edition of the Early...

Author: Bella Millett (Professor emeritus, Professor emeritus, University of Southampton)
ISBN: 9780198972754
Format: Hardback
$153.95

This is a new edition of an important collection of Middle English sermons, the 'Trinity Homilies', copied towards...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Author: Leslie C. Dunn ,  Avi Mendelson
ISBN: 9783032088963
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

The Transcultural and the Anglophone World: Insights from Contemporary Cultural and Literary Studies

The Transcultural and the Anglophone World: Insights...

Author: Eduardo De Gregorio-Godeo
ISBN: 9781803744704
Format: Paperback
$171.47

With selected cultural and literary case studies, this volume explores the articulation of the transcultural in...  Read More >>

The Craft of Living: Journals, 1935-1950

The Craft of Living: Journals, 1935-1950

Author: Cesare Pavese ,  Iuri Moscardi
ISBN: 9781487560508
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Through his journals (19351950), Cesare Pavese opens a door into his life as one of Italy's most influential writers....  Read More >>

Banales Publizieren: Praktiken, Verfahren und Episteme des Selfpublishings

Banales Publizieren: Praktiken, Verfahren und Episteme...

Author: Elisa Linseisen ,  Dorothea Walzer
ISBN: 9783957962300
Format: Paperback
$78.94

Praktiken, Verfahren und Episteme des Selfpublishings in Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft treten heute konkurrierend...  Read More >>

Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma Narratives

Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma...

Author: Cheryl Chaffin
ISBN: 9783032068965
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Authorship in Neo-Latin Literature (c. 1350–c. 1650): On Authorisation and Transmission of Knowledge via Dedications, Prefaces, Author Portraits and Depictions of Dedication Scenes

Authorship in Neo-Latin Literature (c. 1350–c. 1650):...

Author: Karl A.E. Enenkel
ISBN: 9789004731479
Format: Hardback
$615.12

This book throws new light on the question of authorship in Neo- Latin literature and examines the the strategies...  Read More >>

Using Critical Theory: How to Read and Write About Literature

Using Critical Theory: How to Read and Write About Literature...

Author: Lois Tyson (Grand Valley State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781041122180
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style....  Read More >>

King Lear: The New Oxford Shakespeare

King Lear: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Namratha Rao (Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, University of York)
ISBN: 9780192865830
Format: Paperback
$18.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Henry VI, Part I: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part I: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Anonymous
ISBN: 9780192873569
Format: Paperback
$18.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Joint Construction of Narratives in the Psychoanalytic Setting: The Role of Shifting Perspective

Joint Construction of Narratives in the Psychoanalytic...

Author: Eszter Berán ,  Zsolt Unoka
ISBN: 9781804130483
Format: Hardback
$353.76

In psychotherapy, the client’s narratives serve as a starting point. Therapeutic work involves the reconstruction...  Read More >>

""Stanzas on the Stars and Sunspots"" by Vincenzo Figliucci: Advancing Galileo’s Discoveries in Early Modern Italy

""Stanzas on the Stars and Sunspots"" by Vincenzo Figliucci:...

Author: Beatrice Fazio
ISBN: 9783032158871
Format: Hardback
$90.54

This book offers the first critical edition and English translation of Vincenzo Figliucci’s Stanze sopra le stelle...  Read More >>

Friendship: Philosophical Explorations

Friendship: Philosophical Explorations

Author: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University, USA) ,  Andrew Huddleston (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781032878010
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Friendship: Philosophical Explorations will be of interest to those in philosophy studying and researching ethics...  Read More >>

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