Literary studies: general books

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Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel

Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American...

Author: Tim Lanzendörfer (Heisenberg Research Associate Professor for Literary Theory, Literary Studies and Literary Studies Education, Goethe University)
ISBN: 9781399519151
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Examines the connection between historical and speculative fiction to offer a new form of literary-genre fiction...  Read More >>

Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot

Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot

Author: Holly Langstaff (Lecturer in French, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781399515481
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Demonstrates Blanchot's ongoing importance for contemporary philosophical debate about technology, the post-human,...  Read More >>

Landscape Poetics: Scottish Textual Practice 1928–Present

Landscape Poetics: Scottish Textual Practice 1928–Present...

Author: Monika Szuba (Associate Professor in Literature at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdansk)
ISBN: 9781474484213
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Reassesses Scottish textual practice in the context of the natural and post-natural landscapes  Read More >>

Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster

Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought...

Author: Jonathan Boulter (Professor of English, University of Western Ontario)
ISBN: 9781474499637
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland...  Read More >>

Women’s Activism in the Transatlantic Consumers’ Leagues, 1885–1920

Women’s Activism in the Transatlantic Consumers’ Leagues,...

Author: Flore Janssen (Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature, Utrecht University)
ISBN: 9781474497992
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Uncovers the central and leading roles of women in the development of organised consumer activism in the UK and...  Read More >>

Literary Case Studies in Cowardice: Parolles, Waller, and Hirsch

Literary Case Studies in Cowardice: Parolles, Waller,...

Author: Richard Hillyer
ISBN: 9783031987991
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book offers case studies from throughout literature to reveal cowardice as a more complex and interesting phenomenon...  Read More >>

Quantitative Methods, Economics, and Financial Statement Analysis: CFA Level 2 2026

Quantitative Methods, Economics, and Financial Statement...

Author: Azhar Ul Haque Sario
ISBN: 9783384694294
Format: Paperback
$79.17

This book is your roadmap through three of the toughest subjects on the exam. We start with Quantitative Methods....  Read More >>

Socrates at Play: The Social Virtues in the >Symposia

Socrates at Play: The Social Virtues in the >Symposia...

Author:
ISBN: 9783111517001
Format: Hardback
$348.45

This book studies the portraits of Socrates in the Symposia of Plato and Xenophon through the lens of the social...  Read More >>

What Does Kafka have in Common with Jews?: Papers on the Centennial of his Death

What Does Kafka have in Common with Jews?: Papers on...

Author: Mark H. Gelber
ISBN: 9783111638379
Format: Hardback
$235.46

Kafka's Jewish background, interests, and readings, and their relevance for his writings, are still largely viewed...  Read More >>

Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide

Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary...

Author: Julian Murphet (Jury Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Adelaide)
ISBN: 9781399513975
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Provides a comprehensive survey of twentieth-century prison writing from around the world  Read More >>

Seeing to See: The Non-Teleological Poetics of Dickinson and Thoreau

Seeing to See: The Non-Teleological Poetics of Dickinson...

Author: Daniel A. Nelson
ISBN: 9781625348562
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David...  Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death

Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death

Author: Aimée Gasston ,  Gerri Kimber (Visiting Professor in the Department of English, University of Northampton)
ISBN: 9781399527422
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield on the theme of illness and...  Read More >>

The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture

The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture...

Author: Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech
ISBN: 9781836951520
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Innovatively bringing together scholars of various nationalities and communities, The Resonance of Joseph Conrad...  Read More >>

Mettre En Prose, Quoi Qu'il En Coute !: Recits Brefs Et Genres Autres Du Xiiie Au Xvie Siecle

Mettre En Prose, Quoi Qu'il En Coute !: Recits Brefs...

Author: Maria Colombo Timelli ,  Martina Crosio
ISBN: 9782406186335
Format: Paperback
$108.24

This volume focuses on a number of mises en proses (prose adaptations) produced between the thirteenth and fifteenth...  Read More >>

George Borrow, Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

George Borrow, Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The...

Author: Andrew D. Radford (Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781399554145
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A new scholarly edition of a bold yet overlooked Victorian text that blends the genres of memoir, travelogue, ethnography...  Read More >>

Thomas Hardy’s Optimism: Hope and Joy in Hardy’s Poetry

Thomas Hardy’s Optimism: Hope and Joy in Hardy’s Poetry...

Author: Neil Addison
ISBN: 9783031952234
Format: Hardback
$284.60

In fully acknowledging these important brighter aspects, we can see Hardy’s complex poetry as balancing an acute...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan

The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan

Author: Todd McGowan (University of Vermont) ,  Mari Ruti (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781009300759
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The book provides a jargon-free introduction to the thought of Jacques Lacan. Readers will come away with an understanding...  Read More >>

La Renaissance Et Le Detachement

La Renaissance Et Le Detachement

Author: Daniel Menager
ISBN: 9782406191353
Format: Hardback
$285.12

Can one, should one detach oneself from the world? During the Renaissance, writers, moralists, utopists and painters...  Read More >>

Mettre En Prose, Quoi Qu'il En Coute !: Recits Brefs Et Genres Autres Du Xiiie Au Xvie Siecle

Mettre En Prose, Quoi Qu'il En Coute !: Recits Brefs...

Author: Maria Colombo Timelli ,  Martina Crosio
ISBN: 9782406186342
Format: Hardback
$261.36

This volume focuses on a number of mises en proses (prose adaptations) produced between the thirteenth and fifteenth...  Read More >>

La Nation Nommee Roman Face Aux Histoires Nationales

La Nation Nommee Roman Face Aux Histoires Nationales...

Author: Danielle Perrot-Corpet ,  Lise Gauvin
ISBN: 9782406191377
Format: Hardback
$359.04

""Colloque de juin 2009 áa la Sorbonne""--P. 19.  Read More >>

Anos de Chumbo, Anos de Esperança: Histórias da Ditadura Militar no Brasil (1964-1985)

Anos de Chumbo, Anos de Esperança: Histórias da Ditadura...

Author: C Jackson
ISBN: 9798262926411
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Na madrugada silenciosa de 31 de março de 1964, o Brasil se vê à beira de uma transformação radical. Em meio a um...  Read More >>

New Light on Pope: With Some Additions to His Poetry Hitherto Unknown

New Light on Pope: With Some Additions to His Poetry...

Author: Norman Ault
ISBN: 9781041087243
Format: Hardback
$221.00

First published in 1949, New Light on Pope is a collection of new poems by one of the greatest poets; new facts...  Read More >>

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