Literary studies: general books

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The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira...

Author: Sandra Sousa
ISBN: 9781839998102
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Author: Rita Filanti
ISBN: 9781526177063
Format: Hardback
$194.99

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The Bildungsroman: Re-birth, Travels, and Conversations Across the Mediterranean, Irish, and Red Seas

The Bildungsroman: Re-birth, Travels, and Conversations...

Author: Leen Bou Nassereddine
ISBN: 9781041109402
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book aims to explore the history and evolution of the bildungsroman genre by moving beyond its traditional...  Read More >>

Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe

Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe

Author: Holly Fletcher ,  Christine Ott
ISBN: 9781032771663
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book is the first to examine understandings and experiences of fatness in early modern Europe (c. 1450-1700),...  Read More >>

Citizenship in Mid-Century British Literature: War, Statehood, Extinction

Citizenship in Mid-Century British Literature: War,...

Author: Allan Hepburn (James McGill Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, Department of English, James McGill Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, Department of English, McGill University)
ISBN: 9780198987642
Format: Hardback
$191.95

In Britain, the parameters of citizenship and its reciprocal relations shifted dramatically during and after the...  Read More >>

The Verse and the Language of Old Germanic Poetry

The Verse and the Language of Old Germanic Poetry

Author: Olga A. Smirnitskaya ,  Ilya V. Sverdlov
ISBN: 9780866986472
Format: Hardback
$234.96

The first English translation of Olga A. Smirnitskaya's influential 1994 Russian work on Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse...  Read More >>

Arab Nationalism, Decolonization and the Making of a Transregional Literature

Arab Nationalism, Decolonization and the Making of a...

Author: Anne-Marie McManus (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)
ISBN: 9781009575294
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is...  Read More >>

Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean War: Comparing North and South Korean Writing

Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean War:...

Author: Jerome de Wit (University of Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350106529
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean...  Read More >>

The Epic Poetry of Mazisi Kunene: African Literature, Aesthetic, and Transatlantic Formulation

The Epic Poetry of Mazisi Kunene: African Literature,...

Author: Prof. or Dr. Dike Okoro (Harris Stowe State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501398896
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives

Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William...

Author: Robert D. Richardson ,  Megan Marshall
ISBN: 9780691224329
Format: Paperback
$29.99

From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience...  Read More >>

Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Arts

Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Arts

Author: Frits Scholten ,  Francesca Cappelletti
ISBN: 9789493416543
Format: Paperback
$90.56

Ovid's Metamorphoses and its lasting impact on visual art The Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses is among the most...  Read More >>

Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature

Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature

Author: Kerry Manzo
ISBN: 9781611865578
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development...  Read More >>

The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English

The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English...

Author: Marian C. Bean
ISBN: 9781041240938
Format: Hardback
$232.85

First published in 1983, The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English tests theories of word order change...  Read More >>

Authorship in the Days of Johnson: Being a Study of the Relation Between Author, Patron, Publisher and Public, 1726-1780

Authorship in the Days of Johnson: Being a Study of...

Author: A.S. Collins
ISBN: 9781032908533
Format: Paperback
$82.77

Originally published in 1928, this book discusses the complex relationships between authors, patrons and publishers...  Read More >>

Leslie Fiedler: Kind of a Conversation

Leslie Fiedler: Kind of a Conversation

Author: Bruce Jackson (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) ,  Diane Christian
ISBN: 9798855805895
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Fascinating conversations with a leading twentieth century literary critic, author, and cultural gadfly.  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality...

Author: Alberto Sosa-Cabanas ,  Jossianna Arroyo
ISBN: 9781978846258
Format: Paperback
$74.80

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality

Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic...

Author: Dr Feras Alkabani (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9780755655823
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays

Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays

Author: Linda Dryden (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) ,  Professor Robert Hampson, FEA FRSA (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350440883
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation

Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation...

Author: Prof Pam Morris (Independent scholar, UK) ,  Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England)
ISBN: 9781350434097
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

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