Literary studies: general books

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Late-Victorian Girls and their Manuscript Magazines: Girlhood and Textual Transformation in Britain, 1860-1900

Late-Victorian Girls and their Manuscript Magazines:...

Author: Lois Burke
ISBN: 9783031865237
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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Systems from Hell: Problem Definition and the Literary Portrayal of Failure in Our Public Policy and Social Institutions

Systems from Hell: Problem Definition and the Literary...

Author: David A. Rochefort
ISBN: 9798855800258
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Examines how contemporary novels document and define social problems using a variety of narrative techniques to...  Read More >>

Fieldwork: Essays on  the Cultural History of Music in Ireland

Fieldwork: Essays on the Cultural History of Music...

Author: Professor Harry White
ISBN: 9781837652327
Format: Hardback
$219.94

An absorbing study of the development and reception of musical culture in Ireland by a pioneering and deservedly...  Read More >>

The Making and Meaning of a Medieval Manuscript: Interpreting MS Bodley 851

The Making and Meaning of a Medieval Manuscript: Interpreting...

Author: Thomas C. Sawyer
ISBN: 9781843847465
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Develops a method for placing book-historical evidence in dialogue with literary meaning through a detailed investigation...  Read More >>

Migration Literature in Translation: From Latinx Texts to Transnational Readers

Migration Literature in Translation: From Latinx Texts...

Author: Mattea Cussel
ISBN: 9781032800523
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Migration Literature in Translation explores the unique case of Latinx literature translated into Spanish, drawing...  Read More >>

Talking of Joyce

Talking of Joyce

Author: Umberto Eco ,  Liberato Santoro-Brienza
ISBN: 9781910820025
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This new and expanded edition of Talking of Joyce focuses on James Joyce's cultural ancestry - aesthetic and linguistic,...  Read More >>

Horatian Readings: Poetic and Literary Texture

Horatian Readings: Poetic and Literary Texture

Author: Stephen Harrison
ISBN: 9783111678627
Format: Hardback
$319.41

This volume collects eighteen pieces on the Roman poet Horace (65-8 BCE) written over the last two decades. They...  Read More >>

Mixed Feelings: An Interdisciplinary Phenomenology. Ancient Emotions V

Mixed Feelings: An Interdisciplinary Phenomenology....

Author: Douglas Cairns ,  Pia Campeggiani
ISBN: 9783111390543
Format: Hardback
$374.85

Taking a cross-cultural and a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume enriches our understanding of the phenomenology...  Read More >>

Lucrezio e il criterio di verità epicureo

Lucrezio e il criterio di verità epicureo

Author: Chiara Rover
ISBN: 9783111594118
Format: Hardback
$232.29

Was Lucretius a ""fundamentalist"" Epicurean and a mere repeater of his Master’s words, or did he emerge as an innovative...  Read More >>

Bare Ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern Plays

Bare Ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern...

Author: Lisa Hopkins
ISBN: 9781839995118
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Migration Literature in Translation: From Latinx Texts to Transnational Readers

Migration Literature in Translation: From Latinx Texts...

Author: Mattea Cussel
ISBN: 9781032800509
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Migration Literature in Translation explores the unique case of Latinx literature translated into Spanish, drawing...  Read More >>

中国历代梦全录与释义:上册: The Complete Collection and Interpretation of Dreams in Chinese History: Volume One

中国历代梦全录与释义:上册:...

Author: Di Bian ,  武联奎
ISBN: 9781665800679
Format: Paperback
$158.40

世言黄帝华胥境, 千古秦荒孰再游 。 但解逍遥化蝴蝶, 不须富贵慕蚍蜉。 邯郸梦事岂关身? 未熟黄粱迹已陈。 输与乌衣老铃下, 日中睡觉一颦伸。 ...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature

The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature...

Author: Lesley Wylie
ISBN: 9780822967316
Format: Paperback
$105.60

The First Thorough Examination of the Enduring Significance of Plants in Spanish American Literature and Culture...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture

Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive...

Author: Isaiah Matthew Wooden
ISBN: 9780810148222
Format: Paperback
$89.76

Surveys a diverse array of Black performance and visual texts that trouble dominant conceptualizations and normative...  Read More >>

State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature

State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature...

Author: Dan Sperrin
ISBN: 9780691195582
Format: Hardback
$79.99

A history of political satire in English literature from its Roman foundations to the present day Satire is a...  Read More >>

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience...

Author: Patrice D. Rankine
ISBN: 9781602584532
Format: Paperback
$90.20

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

The Wound of the Name

The Wound of the Name

Author: Abdelkébir Khatibi ,  Matt Reeck
ISBN: 9780810148512
Format: Paperback
$84.48

The Wound of the Name is a classic work of critical theory that seeks to dismantle and explore new ways of looking...  Read More >>

Driving Lessons: A Road Trip Through American Travel Literature

Driving Lessons: A Road Trip Through American Travel...

Author: Christopher B. Strain
ISBN: 9780817361990
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Weaves the author's own four-month cross-country sojourn in a VW van with thoughts on travel narratives across the...  Read More >>

Steinbeck's Uneasy America: Rereading ""Travels with Charley

Steinbeck's Uneasy America: Rereading ""Travels with...

Author: Barbara A. Heavilin ,  Susan Shillinglaw
ISBN: 9780817361815
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The first critical anthology devoted solely to John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley.  Read More >>

Mary Barnard: Complete Poems and Selected Translations

Mary Barnard: Complete Poems and Selected Translations...

Author: Mary Barnard ,  Sarah Barnsley
ISBN: 9798855802641
Format: Hardback
$343.20

The most comprehensive collection of writing by award-winning US poet, renowned translator of Sappho, and trailblazing...  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities

The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature...

Author: Paul Barrett ,  Sarah Roger
ISBN: 9781032331256
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities is a guide to the debates, concepts,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Tongues

Shakespeare in Tongues

Author: Kathryn Vomero Santos
ISBN: 9781032274492
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry

Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in...

Author: Merle E. Brown
ISBN: 9781041069195
Format: Hardback
$147.00

Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin,...  Read More >>

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