Literary studies: general books

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Traces Et Usages Du Malebranchisme Dans Le Roman Francais Des Lumieres

Traces Et Usages Du Malebranchisme Dans Le Roman Francais...

Author: Henri Portal
ISBN: 9782406183402
Format: Paperback
$195.36

Eighteenth-century novelists were able to establish a dialogue with Malebranche's philosophy that was as critical...  Read More >>

The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion

The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion

Author: Nick Groom (Professor of Literature in English, University of Macau) ,  William Hughes (Professor of Literature in English, University of Macau)
ISBN: 9781474432474
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Comprehensively surveys the vampire as a cultural phenomenon.  Read More >>

Periodicals, Fiction and the Novel, 1700–1760: Ecologies of Print

Periodicals, Fiction and the Novel, 1700–1760: Ecologies...

Author: Jennifer Buckley (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Galway)
ISBN: 9781399527453
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The first sustained account of the relationship between the periodical essay and the novel.  Read More >>

Conversations with New York School Poets

Conversations with New York School Poets

Author: Yasmine Shamma (Professor of Literature, University of Hull) ,  Rona Cran (Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century American Literature, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781474478991
Format: Hardback
$288.00

In these exclusive interviews, New York School poets reveal what the New York School meant to them and how its legacy...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf – Objects, Things, Matter

Virginia Woolf – Objects, Things, Matter

Author: Laci Mattison (Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literature, Florida Gulf Coast University)
ISBN: 9781399517003
Format: Hardback
$219.00

The first book-length account of Woolf's vital, active and strange objects, things and matter.  Read More >>

Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity

Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity

Author: Daniel Behar (Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
ISBN: 9781474499774
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines a poetic movement that rose from under official state discourse in 1970s Syria.  Read More >>

Al-Jāḥiẓ and Religious Knowledge: A Forgotten Islamic Rationalism

Al-Jāḥiẓ and Religious Knowledge: A Forgotten Islamic...

Author: Hussein Ali Abdulsater (Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9781399521970
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Offers an unprecedented theological investigation into al-Ji's social empiricism.  Read More >>

Shakespeare on the Radio: A Century of BBC Plays

Shakespeare on the Radio: A Century of BBC Plays

Author: Andrea Smith (Lecturer in English, University of Suffolk)
ISBN: 9781399547260
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Brings together Shakespearean performance, audio drama studies and media history to offer the first detailed examination...  Read More >>

Network Analysis for Book Historians: Digital Labour and Data Visualization Techniques

Network Analysis for Book Historians: Digital Labour...

Author: Liz Fischer
ISBN: 9781802702682
Format: Hardback
$284.63

This book explores the potential of network analysis for medieval and early modern book history, with case studies...  Read More >>

The Practical Morality of Life: Adam Smith, George Anne Bellamy, and the Theatre

The Practical Morality of Life: Adam Smith, George Anne...

Author: Caroline Breashears (Professor of English, St. Lawrence University (New York), USA.)
ISBN: 9781399540674
Format: Hardback
$200.00

How a scandalous actress influenced one of the greatest philosophers of the eighteenth century.  Read More >>

The Embodied Reader in D. H. Lawrence’s Criticism and Fiction: Reading, Feeling and Modernist Form

The Embodied Reader in D. H. Lawrence’s Criticism and...

Author: Harry Acton (Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9781399538251
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Offers a new reading of D. H. Lawrence's critical and fictional modernism.  Read More >>

Poetique Historique de la Modernite

Poetique Historique de la Modernite

Author: Alain Vaillant
ISBN: 9782406177722
Format: Paperback
$129.36

The word ""modernity"" has designated, since the 19th century, the society resulting from the French Revolution,...  Read More >>

Mahakavi K. V. Simon: The Milton of the East

Mahakavi K. V. Simon: The Milton of the East

Author: Professor or Dr. Varghese Mathai (Judson University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501388538
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""The first English study of poet K. V. Simon (1883-1944), with sample translations, including of his 12,000-line...  Read More >>

The Ego Made Manifest: Max Stirner, Egoism, and the Modern Manifesto

The Ego Made Manifest: Max Stirner, Egoism, and the...

Author: Dr. Wayne Bradshaw (Research Associate, James Cook University, Australia,)
ISBN: 9798765102572
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""From Karl Marx to Wyndham Lewis, this book examines Max Stirner's influence on the modern manifesto""--  Read More >>

The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World...

Author: Paul Tenngart (Associate Professor, Lund University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781501382161
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""Explores the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in...  Read More >>

Love and Russian Literature: From Benjamin to Woolf

Love and Russian Literature: From Benjamin to Woolf...

Author: Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350425583
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Ira B. Nadel chronicles the history of British modernism's engagement with Russian culture throughout the 20th century,...  Read More >>

Central American Literatures as World Literature

Central American Literatures as World Literature

Author: Professor or Dr. Sophie Esch (Rice University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501391910
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""A first-of-its-kind study on Central American literature that illuminates classics and highlights new pathways...  Read More >>

Theodore Metochites: Patterns of Self-Representation in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium

Theodore Metochites: Patterns of Self-Representation...

Author: Ioannis Polemis (University of Athens, Greece) ,  Dionysios Stathakopoulos (King's College London UK)
ISBN: 9780755651399
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Immediacy: Dangerous Experience in Freud, Woolf, and Merleau-Ponty

The Ethics of Immediacy: Dangerous Experience in Freud,...

Author: Dr. Jeffrey McCurry (Duquesne University, USA) ,  Professor Esther Rashkin (University of Utah, USA)
ISBN: 9798765107256
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""Argues that modernism can be seen as a therapeutic project for transforming human experience, and draws from Freudian...  Read More >>

La Tragedie de l'Histoire: La Derniere Oeuvre de Jean Froissart

La Tragedie de l'Histoire: La Derniere Oeuvre de Jean...

Author: Alberto Varvaro ,  Amelie Hanus
ISBN: 9782406189015
Format: Hardback
$250.80

This book hands down to us some of the most beautiful pages of the late Middle Ages and shows Froissart's great...  Read More >>

Traces Et Usages Du Malebranchisme Dans Le Roman Francais Des Lumieres

Traces Et Usages Du Malebranchisme Dans Le Roman Francais...

Author: Henri Portal
ISBN: 9782406183396
Format: Hardback
$359.04

Eighteenth-century novelists were able to establish a dialogue with Malebranche's philosophy that was as critical...  Read More >>

Poetique Historique de la Modernite

Poetique Historique de la Modernite

Author: Alain Vaillant
ISBN: 9782406177739
Format: Hardback
$285.12

The word ""modernity"" has designated, since the 19th century, the society resulting from the French Revolution,...  Read More >>

La Poesie de la Pleiade: Heritage, Influences, Transmission

La Poesie de la Pleiade: Heritage, Influences, Transmission...

Author: Yvonne Bellenger ,  Jean Ceard
ISBN: 9782406189039
Format: Hardback
$282.48

""Bio-bibliographie du professeur Isamu Takata"": p. [11]-15.  Read More >>

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