Literary studies: general books

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A Test of Powers: Writings on Criticism and Literary Institutions

A Test of Powers: Writings on Criticism and Literary...

Author: Franco Fortini ,  Alberto Toscano
ISBN: 9781803095950
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Originally published in Italian in 1965, A Test of Powers was immediately seen as one of the central texts of Italian...  Read More >>

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical...

Author: Edmond Y. Chang ,  Timothy J. Welsh
ISBN: 9781032468839
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and...  Read More >>

Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780–1914: Volume I: Literary, Cultural and Material Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning

Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth...

Author: Douglas Davies ,  Matthew McCullough
ISBN: 9781032282633
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century....  Read More >>

Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780–1914: Volume III: Historical, Social-Political and Public Response to Death, Loss and Mourning

Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth...

Author: Douglas Davies ,  Matthew McCullough
ISBN: 9781032282657
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century....  Read More >>

Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780–1914: Volume IV: Intellectual and Disciplinary Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning

Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth...

Author: Geoffrey Scarre ,  Ricky Whitefield
ISBN: 9781032282664
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century....  Read More >>

Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780–1914: Volume II: Religious, Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning

Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth...

Author: Douglas Davies ,  Ricky Whitefield
ISBN: 9781032282640
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century....  Read More >>

Applying Artificial Intelligence in Translation: Possibilities, Processes and Phenomena

Applying Artificial Intelligence in Translation: Possibilities,...

Author: Katharina Walter ,  Marco Agnetta
ISBN: 9781032887838
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This collection critically examines the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of AI-based tools in...  Read More >>

The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History

The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History

Author: Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
ISBN: 9781041120254
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History documents, explores and interrogates the Irish Theatre that was prevalent...  Read More >>

Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903-1913

Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903-1913

Author: L.M. Montgomery ,  Benjamin Lefebvre
ISBN: 9781487517489
Format: Paperback
$89.99

With critical commentary by L.M. Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, Schooled with Briars reprints six of Montgomery's...  Read More >>

The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles,...

Author: Aeschylus ,  Sophocles
ISBN: 9780226844695
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Chicago's renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume....  Read More >>

Close Reading: The Basics

Close Reading: The Basics

Author: David Greenham
ISBN: 9781032817286
Format: Hardback
$210.00

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Margaret Oliphant’s Curative Gothic Literature

Margaret Oliphant’s Curative Gothic Literature

Author: Katerina García-Walsh
ISBN: 9781032998725
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphant’s Gothic literature, in the light of her religious...  Read More >>

Germania By Tacitus: The Reich's Sacred Scroll-Himmler And The SS Search for the Codex Aesinas

Germania By Tacitus: The Reich's Sacred Scroll-Himmler...

Author: Arthur Vance Sterling
ISBN: 9798232018870
Format: Paperback
$52.77

What if a single ancient text could ignite a nation's darkest ambitions? In Germania By Tacitus: The Reich's Sacred...  Read More >>

Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public

Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public...

Author: Keegan Cook Finberg
ISBN: 9780231219211
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Keegan Cook Finberg argues that poetry became an increasingly capacious force in the second half of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel

Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the...

Author: Zoë McGee
ISBN: 9781526188854
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Drawing parallels with the #MeToo movement, this book explores how a series of brilliant female authors in the eighteenth...  Read More >>

Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from Bacon to Austen

Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from...

Author: Kelly Swartz
ISBN: 9780813954127
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Proust's Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation

Proust's Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation...

Author: Randolph Splitter
ISBN: 9781032624198
Format: Paperback
$58.99

Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s...  Read More >>

Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing

Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern...

Author: Marion Quirici
ISBN: 9780815611929
Format: Hardback
$162.00

""This analysis of modernist Irish literature explores the legacy of intersectional stereotypes of disability, race,...  Read More >>

Poetry and the Sense of Reversal: Unsettling the Limits

Poetry and the Sense of Reversal: Unsettling the Limits...

Author: William D. Melaney
ISBN: 9783032071231
Format: Hardback
$343.17

How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary...  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
$91.30

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

Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life

Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life

Author: Gerri Kimber
ISBN: 9781836391623
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one of literary modernism's most significant writers.  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature

The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature

Author: Geraint Evans (Swansea University) ,  Helen Fulton (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781107514423
Format: Paperback
$72.42

A chronological history of the literature of Wales in its two major languages (Welsh and English), this book covers...  Read More >>

Cervantes the Poet: The Don Quijote, Poetic Practice, and the Conception of the First Modern Novel

Cervantes the Poet: The Don Quijote, Poetic Practice,...

Author: Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781009045414
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Recovering Cervantes' career as an itinerant poet, this study presents a new theory of the modern novel as an organic...  Read More >>

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