Literary studies: general books

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Geschichte Der Polnischen Gegenwartsliteratur 1976-2020

Geschichte Der Polnischen Gegenwartsliteratur 1976-2020...

Author: Przemyslaw Czaplinski ,  Karoline Thaidigsmann
ISBN: 9783825368401
Format: Hardback
$298.32

Die vorliegende Literaturgeschichte entstand in deutsch-polnischer Zusammenarbeit und zeichnet die dynamische Entwicklung...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Teaching of George Eliot

The Teaching of George Eliot

Author: William Myers
ISBN: 9781041071501
Format: Hardback
$126.00

George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries. Their view that her writing was a deliberate...  Read More >>

The Doctor Looks at Literature: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters

The Doctor Looks at Literature: Psychological Studies...

Author: Joseph Collins
ISBN: 9781041064084
Format: Hardback
$221.00

First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: “This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist,...  Read More >>

Evelyn Waugh and the Problem of Evil

Evelyn Waugh and the Problem of Evil

Author: William Myers
ISBN: 9781041079620
Format: Hardback
$58.99

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Locomotion in Literature: The Railway in Danish Literature

Locomotion in Literature: The Railway in Danish Literature...

Author: Martin Zerlang (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781041015789
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The invention of the locomotive changed landscapes, cityscapes, social relations, sensibilities prophesied by Hans...  Read More >>

The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

Author: Melanie Racette-Campbell
ISBN: 9780299343545
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Masculinity in both the Republic and the Empire are well studied subjects, but by shining a light on the precise...  Read More >>

Hemingway's Attic: Hell and Glory in Cuba and the Writing of The Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway's Attic: Hell and Glory in Cuba and the Writing...

Author: William Hazelgrove
ISBN: 9781493076611
Format: Hardback
$59.99

""Reveals hidden depths of the Hemingway mystique through the eyes of a modern writer who spent a decade immersed...  Read More >>

Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale

Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development...

Author: Kimberly J. Lau ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814341346
Format: Paperback
$70.40

A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales. Engaging...  Read More >>

Reading the Renaissance: Black Women's Literary Reception and Taste in Chicago, 1932-1953

Reading the Renaissance: Black Women's Literary Reception...

Author: Mary I. Unger
ISBN: 9781625348586
Format: Paperback
$69.30

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city’s...  Read More >>

Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media

Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media

Author: Masha Salazkina ,  Yumna Siddiqi
ISBN: 9781603296908
Format: Paperback
$69.30

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The Story's not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives

The Story's not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood...

Author: Victoria Aarons ,  Leela Corman
ISBN: 9780814349113
Format: Paperback
$66.00

The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars...  Read More >>

Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in Shakespeare's England

Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in...

Author: Andrew S. Keener
ISBN: 9780817362041
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights...  Read More >>

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