Literary studies: general books

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Song Lyrics and Literary History: The Afterlives of Vårvindar friska

Song Lyrics and Literary History: The Afterlives of...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Gunilla Hermansson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
ISBN: 9798765127353
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Explores the afterlives of one Romantic poem – a poem meant to be sung – across time, cultures, media, and contexts,...  Read More >>

Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth...

Author: Phyllis Weliver (Royalty Account) ,  Katharine Ellis
ISBN: 9781837651832
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This collection offers students a practical guide to understanding the ways music and literature intersect and the...  Read More >>

Sean O'Casey in Context

Sean O'Casey in Context

Author: James Moran (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781009304207
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. His work has been praised by figures from G. Bernard Shaw to...  Read More >>

The Hagiography of Byzantine Cyprus: Saints, Hagiographers and Texts (Fourth to Thirteenth Century)

The Hagiography of Byzantine Cyprus: Saints, Hagiographers...

Author: Stephanos Efthymiadis (Open University of Cyprus)
ISBN: 9781009355605
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A systematic study of the texts written in honour of the saints of Cyprus during the Byzantine era. Reveals cultural...  Read More >>

The Performance and Poetry of Regina José Galindo: Art as Event

The Performance and Poetry of Regina José Galindo: Art...

Author: Mark Eccles
ISBN: 9781666975116
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book explores the work of performance artist Regina José Galindo, emphasizing the power of her art as a tool...  Read More >>

A Study of Intertextuality in Mohja Kahf’s ""E-Mails from Scheherazad"": The ""Odalisque” Gazes Back

A Study of Intertextuality in Mohja Kahf’s ""E-Mails...

Author: Hamida Riahi
ISBN: 9781666969894
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book examines Mohja Kahf’s use of parody and allusion in E-mails from Scheherazad to deconstruct Orientalist...  Read More >>

Literature as Sound Studies

Literature as Sound Studies

Author: Prof. yasser elhariry (Associate Professor, Dartmouth College, USA) ,  Prof. Liesl Yamaguchi (Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, USA)
ISBN: 9798765121375
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and...  Read More >>

Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century: Refashioning the Nation’s Sacred Imaginary

Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth...

Author: Keith Hanley (Lancaster University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350476004
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical...  Read More >>

Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue

Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive...

Author: Kathleen E Kennedy ,  Melek Karataş
ISBN: 9781843847472
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first complete descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in Bristol area collections.  Read More >>

The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus

The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus

Author: Salvador Bartera (University of Tennessee) ,  Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson (University of Cincinnati)
ISBN: 9780192894038
Format: Hardback
$234.95

The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus....  Read More >>

Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances Across the Indigenous Americas

Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances Across the...

Author: Lilian Mengesha
ISBN: 9781479835379
Format: Hardback
$199.00

""Critical Dreaming is an incisive study connecting feminist Indigenous performance practices across colonial borders""--...  Read More >>

Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction

Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian...

Author: Talia Schaffer
ISBN: 9780691271101
Format: Paperback
$54.99

In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary...  Read More >>

The Pearlsong

The Pearlsong

Author: Adam Bremer-McCollum
ISBN: 9780674301467
Format: Paperback
$70.95

The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent on a mission to Egypt to retrieve...  Read More >>

A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own

Author: Virginia Woolf ,  Xochitl Gonzalez
ISBN: 9780143138907
Format: Paperback
$32.99

First published in 1929, this essay was based on a series of lectures the author delivered at Newnham College and...  Read More >>

The Cat and The Masked Woman

The Cat and The Masked Woman

Author: Colette ,  Holmes
ISBN: 9780198863724
Format: Paperback
$15.95

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The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince

Author: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University, Boston)
ISBN: 9781009259477
Format: Paperback
$62.07

The History of Mary Prince was the first account of a black woman's life published in the United Kingdom. This Companion...  Read More >>

Literary Form in Early Medieval England

Literary Form in Early Medieval England

Author: Jennifer A. Lorden (William & Mary)
ISBN: 9781009328616
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element offers a tour of literary forms – those that have received more attention and those that have been...  Read More >>

Ukrainian Literature: A Wartime Guide for Anglophone Readers

Ukrainian Literature: A Wartime Guide for Anglophone...

Author: Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash University)
ISBN: 9781009559065
Format: Paperback
$43.99

An introduction for general readers and students to Ukrainian literature in English translation, using the responses...  Read More >>

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