Literary studies: general books

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Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics...

Author: Nick Katsiadas ,  Carl Sell
ISBN: 9781666971484
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, connecting Tolkien...  Read More >>

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture: Implicit Theology, Secular Spirituality, and Speculative Fiction

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture:...

Author: Karen Trimble Alliaume ,  Maryellen Davis Collett
ISBN: 9781666934854
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Employing theoretical lenses of implicit theology and secular spirituality, this book blurs the boundaries between...  Read More >>

The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750-1900

The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany,...

Author: Professor Mary Helen Dupree (Georgetown University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765158265
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Examines the practice of literary declamation in German literature and its place alongside print culture in the...  Read More >>

Translating His-stories

Translating His-stories

Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca)
ISBN: 9781009673174
Format: Hardback
$142.31

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment

Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the...

Author: Amitav Ghosh
ISBN: 9780226845326
Format: Hardback
$47.95

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Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and Segmentary Narrative

Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and...

Author: Natalie Swain (Acadia University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350407244
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examines Ovid’s Amores through a comics-based methodology to demonstrate how Latin elegy uses its segmented format...  Read More >>

The Epic Modernist Alfred Döblin: A Reader’s Guide to His Major Fiction in Six Excursions

The Epic Modernist Alfred Döblin: A Reader’s Guide to...

Author: David R Midgley
ISBN: 9781640142275
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Provides the English-speaking reader with a comprehensive guide to the fiction of Alfred Döblin, a major figure...  Read More >>

The Lives and Deaths of the Norse Gods

The Lives and Deaths of the Norse Gods

Author: Professor Jonas Wellendorf
ISBN: 9781843847588
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England: Volume 38

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England: Volume 38...

Author: S. P. Cerasano
ISBN: 9781683939863
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Volume 38 of a continuing academic journal dedicated to research in the field of early drama and theatrical studies....  Read More >>

Xhosa Poets and Poetry: Second edition, updated and revised

Xhosa Poets and Poetry: Second edition, updated and...

Author: Jeff Opland
ISBN: 9781847014504
Format: Hardback
$336.38

Essays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....  Read More >>

Isizwe esinembali: Xhosa histories and poetry (1873–1888)

Isizwe esinembali: Xhosa histories and poetry (1873–1888)...

Author: Jeff Opland ,  Dr Wandile Kuse
ISBN: 9781847014429
Format: Hardback
$336.38

Edition and translation of all of William Wellington Gqoba's clearly identifiable writings in isiXhosa and English,...  Read More >>

Xhosa literature: Spoken and printed words

Xhosa literature: Spoken and printed words

Author: Jeff Opland
ISBN: 9781847014528
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Essays examining isiXhosa oral literature, novels and journalism and the interconnections between them in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Hadi waseluhlangeni: Collected writings (1873–1916)

Hadi waseluhlangeni: Collected writings (1873–1916)...

Author: Jeff Opland ,  Professor Pamela Maseko
ISBN: 9781847014580
Format: Hardback
$336.38

All the clearly identifiable writings of Jonas Ntsiko, the 'national harp' of South Africa, in English and in isiXhosa....  Read More >>

Lexicography: Notes on Xhosa lore and language (1909–1934)

Lexicography: Notes on Xhosa lore and language (1909–1934)...

Author: Jeff Opland
ISBN: 9781847014542
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Articles on Xhosa language and folklore.  Read More >>

Exploring Intersections between Nizami and Dante: before and after medievality

Exploring Intersections between Nizami and Dante: before...

Author: Rahilya Geybullayeva ,  Nunzio Ruggiero
ISBN: 9789004736924
Format: Hardback
$369.60

This book explores cultural parallels and divergences across Christian and Islamic civilizations through the lens...  Read More >>

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Author: Tamara Hundorova ,  Tanya Savchynska
ISBN: 9798897831166
Format: Hardback
$125.00

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Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France

Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in...

Author: Natania Meeker
ISBN: 9781531512576
Format: Paperback
$80.99

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Antigone

Antigone

Author: Sophocles ,  Elizabeth Wyckoff
ISBN: 9780226844657
Format: Paperback
$19.95

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Navigating New Homelands: Displacement and Migration in Post Colonial Nation-State

Navigating New Homelands: Displacement and Migration...

Author: Sk Sagir Ali ,  Tanmoy Kundu
ISBN: 9781803746074
Format: Paperback
$160.91

This book analyzes the development of nationalist and bio-political narratives and their role in perpetuating exclusionary...  Read More >>

Studies on the Transmission of Orion's Etymologicum

Studies on the Transmission of Orion's Etymologicum...

Author: Alessandro Musino ,  Prof. Dr. Christian Brockmann
ISBN: 9783525303382
Format: Hardback
$199.21

Die erste Untersuchung zur Überlieferung des Etymologicum von Orion  Read More >>

Eco-Punk Narratives: Navigating Post-Cyberpunk and Environmental Discourses

Eco-Punk Narratives: Navigating Post-Cyberpunk and Environmental...

Author: Tanu Gupta ,  Tania Bansal
ISBN: 9781032894423
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This book analyses eco-punk, a literary subgenre at the intersection of post-cyberpunk and environmentalism.  Read More >>

Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel

Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel

Author: Olivia Ferguson
ISBN: 9781009274241
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism...  Read More >>

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century...

Author: Edwin Frank
ISBN: 9781529925722
Format: Paperback
$29.99

""A notable editor's survey of the defining novels of the twentieth century""--  Read More >>

A Guide to Academic Writing: How to Tame Your Essay

A Guide to Academic Writing: How to Tame Your Essay...

Author: Irina Ruppo
ISBN: 9781032650098
Format: Paperback
$90.99

A Guide to Academic Writing: How to Tame Your Essay presents a holistic approach to writing in academia. The book...  Read More >>

King Arthur: Medieval British Literature and Modern Critical Tradition

King Arthur: Medieval British Literature and Modern...

Author: Andrew Breeze
ISBN: 9781961361256
Format: Paperback
$92.37

King Arthur: Medieval British Literature and Modern Critical Tradition is a book that revolutionizes our understanding...  Read More >>

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