Literary studies: general books

316034 books were found.

Prokop und der soziale Kosmos der Historiographie

Prokop und der soziale Kosmos der Historiographie

Author: Jakob Riemenschneider
ISBN: 9783111546865
Format: Hardback
$78.62

Procopius of Caesarea was one of the last authors of classical antique historiography. His major volume on Justinian's...  Read More >>

Translations and Copyright in the Italian Book Trade: Publishers, Agents, and the State (1900-1947)

Translations and Copyright in the Italian Book Trade:...

Author: Anna Lanfranchi
ISBN: 9783031649110
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Through the lens of the post-Unification Italian translation market of British and US authors (1900-1947), it combines...  Read More >>

Censorship and Ideology: The Translation of Children's Literature in Post-Civil War Spain

Censorship and Ideology: The Translation of Children's...

Author: Julia Lin Thompson
ISBN: 9783031666643
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book offers a fascinating picture of how state censorship affected children’s literature translation in post-Civil...  Read More >>

None a Stranger There: England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage

None a Stranger There: England and/in Europe on the...

Author: Scott Oldenburg ,  Matteo Pangallo
ISBN: 9780817322137
Format: Hardback
$290.40

A wide-ranging group of scholarly essays that probe the historical nature of English identity, both through self-definition...  Read More >>

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas

Author: Isobel Sigley ,  Whitney Standlee
ISBN: 9781032532363
Format: Hardback
$284.00

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy....  Read More >>

Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature

Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature...

Author: Mat Fournier
ISBN: 9780231209526
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Bringing together trans theory with French literary studies, Mat Fournier offers a new understanding of how the...  Read More >>

Tis Pity She's a Whore: By John Ford

Tis Pity She's a Whore: By John Ford

Author: Martin White
ISBN: 9780719088438
Format: Hardback
$194.99

 Read More >>

The Wisdom of the Romantics

The Wisdom of the Romantics

Author: Michael K. Kellogg
ISBN: 9781493087112
Format: Hardback
$56.99

In The Wisdom of Romanticism, author Michael Kellogg profiles such disparate authors as Rousseau and Balzac, Goethe...  Read More >>

Cervantine Blackness

Cervantine Blackness

Author: Nicholas R. Jones (Assistant Professor of Spanish, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780271098777
Format: Hardback
$198.00

""Uses a close reading of the work of Miguel de Cervantes to critically examine the default approaches to the exploration,...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature

Author: Matthew C. Augustine (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews) ,  Steven N. Zwicker (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis)
ISBN: 9780192866035
Format: Hardback
$371.95

This books brings new critical perspectives to bear on classic texts, asks challenging new questions about the relations...  Read More >>

Krise und Transfer

Krise und Transfer

Author: Niklas Schmich
ISBN: 9783111570426
Format: Hardback
$71.47

""Our culture - the ancient, glorious culture of the Occident - finds itself in a state of exception today."" These...  Read More >>

Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture

Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American...

Author: Caleb Smith
ISBN: 9780691256023
Format: Paperback
$39.99

How nineteenth-century ""disciplines of attention"" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being...  Read More >>

Margaret Wise Brown’s Experimental Art: The Modernist Picture Book

Margaret Wise Brown’s Experimental Art: The Modernist...

Author: Julia Pond
ISBN: 9781032727011
Format: Hardback
$105.00

In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Woman’s Debate

Shakespeare’s Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes...

Author: Beatrice Righetti
ISBN: 9781032688848
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Shakespeare’s Shrews investigates the echoes of two early modern discourses—paradoxical writing and the woman’s...  Read More >>

The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus: Cosmology, Music, Medicine, and Architecture from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century

The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus: Cosmology, Music, Medicine,...

Author: Jacomien Prins ,  Edmund Thomas
ISBN: 9789004431089
Format: Hardback
$314.16

The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus examines the influence of the Timaeus on the early disciplinary histories of cosmology,...  Read More >>

Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature

Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature...

Author: Katie R. Peel
ISBN: 9781526176479
Format: Hardback
$194.99

Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while...  Read More >>

Theologies of Fear in Early Greek Epic

Theologies of Fear in Early Greek Epic

Author: Carman Romano
ISBN: 9781032689890
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores the theological significance of horror elements in the works of Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymns...  Read More >>

Cultural Bifocals on Chinese TV Series and Diaspora Fiction

Cultural Bifocals on Chinese TV Series and Diaspora...

Author: Sheng-mei Ma
ISBN: 9781032836133
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The book explores how Chinese TV series and Asian Diaspora fiction are consumed, experienced, and adapted by and...  Read More >>

Kathrin Rögglas Szeno-Graphien Der Gegenwart: Formen Und Methoden Einer Performativen Prosa (1995-2016)

Kathrin Rögglas Szeno-Graphien Der Gegenwart: Formen...

Author: Rosa Coppola
ISBN: 9783111251691
Format: Paperback
$35.72

Kathrin Röggla's prose is one of the most far-reaching attempts to rethink realism in contemporary German-speaking...  Read More >>

The Mediated Arctic: Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Circumpolar Geographies

The Mediated Arctic: Poetics and Politics of Contemporary...

Author: Johannes Riquet
ISBN: 9781526174017
Format: Hardback
$206.99

This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production from...  Read More >>

Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art

Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art

Author: Chloë Julius ,  Michael Green
ISBN: 9781526173188
Format: Hardback
$206.99

This collection investigates the methodological problem of how to see, or read, art that references literature through...  Read More >>

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List