Literary studies: general books

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A Vain Talent? The Question of Female Artistry in the Life and Work of Anne Brontë

A Vain Talent? The Question of Female Artistry in the...

Author: Taten Shirley
ISBN: 9798881902193
Format: Paperback
$190.08

The main goal of this anthology is to aid Brontë scholars, along with undergraduate and graduate students alike,...  Read More >>

State and Society in the Palaiologan Era: (13th–15th Centuries)

State and Society in the Palaiologan Era: (13th–15th...

Author: Marie-Hélène Blanchet ,  Raúl Estangüi Gómez
ISBN: 9781032585062
Format: Hardback
$305.00

State and Society in the Palaiologan Era brings together articles by some of the best specialists in the field and...  Read More >>

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture: Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Roisín Laing
ISBN: 9783031413841
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture – canonical literature, children’s...  Read More >>

A Little History of Literature

A Little History of Literature

Author: John Sutherland
ISBN: 9780300283419
Format: Paperback
$22.95

A title that takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from...  Read More >>

Transgressive Humanism in Mid-Socialist Poland

Transgressive Humanism in Mid-Socialist Poland

Author: Nina Seiler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781032123776
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book focuses on the often-overlooked mid period of Socialism in twentieth century Poland, tracing the transgressive...  Read More >>

Memory Studies in India: Texts and Contexts

Memory Studies in India: Texts and Contexts

Author: Avishek Parui ,  Merin Simi Raj
ISBN: 9789004722484
Format: Hardback
$359.04

This is the first volume of essays in memory studies from India, covering a rich range of historical events, sites,...  Read More >>

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer's Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer's Iliad in the Fight...

Author: Edith Hall ,  Edith Hall
ISBN: 9798228557116
Format: Audio
$131.97

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Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer's Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer's Iliad in the Fight...

Author: Edith Hall ,  Edith Hall
ISBN: 9798228557123
Format: Audio
$121.31

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A Companion to Apollonius of Rhodes

A Companion to Apollonius of Rhodes

Author: Ruth Scodel
ISBN: 9780472133604
Format: Hardback
$250.80

A complementary text to the Greek poet of Argonautica  Read More >>

Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting

Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting

Author: Jennifer Soong
ISBN: 9780226839905
Format: Paperback
$49.95

An audacious account of what happens when forgetting becomes a way of writing and writing becomes a way of forgetting....  Read More >>

The First Witches: Women of Power in the Classical World

The First Witches: Women of Power in the Classical World...

Author: Alexis Hannah Prescott
ISBN: 9781399038362
Format: Hardback
$80.00

""Traces the literary evolution of female figures like Hecate and Circe into archetypal witches, shaping enduring...  Read More >>

Satiric Modernism

Satiric Modernism

Author: Kevin Rulo
ISBN: 9781638041764
Format: Paperback
$145.07

He shows how satire enables modernist authors to evaluate modernity critically and to explore theirambivalence about...  Read More >>

Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting

Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting

Author: Jennifer Soong
ISBN: 9780226839899
Format: Hardback
$190.95

An audacious account of what happens when forgetting becomes a way of writing and writing becomes a way of forgetting....  Read More >>

A Dictionary of Tolkien Deluxe Edition

A Dictionary of Tolkien Deluxe Edition

Author: David Day
ISBN: 9781667207742
Format: Hardback
$52.77

Dive into the fantastical world and vocabulary of J. R. R. Tolkien with this deluxe edition that will stand out...  Read More >>

Stalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada

Stalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and...

Author: Balazs Venkovits
ISBN: 9788367405461
Format: Paperback
$102.93

The collection of essays in this volume of HJEAS Books explores the history of immigration to Canada from Central...  Read More >>

Tier-Mensch-Relationen: Den Spuren Von Tieren Folgen: Spanisch- Und Französischsprachige Erzähltexte Der Gegenwart

Tier-Mensch-Relationen: Den Spuren Von Tieren Folgen:...

Author: Maria-Anna Schiffers
ISBN: 9783111443850
Format: Hardback
$261.33

This book delves into the many questions pertaining to human-animal relations today, with special focus on a new...  Read More >>

Negotiating Age: Aging and Ageism in Contemporary Literature and Theatre

Negotiating Age: Aging and Ageism in Contemporary Literature...

Author: Mária Kurdi
ISBN: 9788367405447
Format: Paperback
$142.53

Many societies in the world today are challenged by the rapidly escalating phenomenon of an aging population with...  Read More >>

Perceiving-Thinking-Writing: Merleau-Ponty and Literature

Perceiving-Thinking-Writing: Merleau-Ponty and Literature...

Author: Donald Wesling
ISBN: 9788367405966
Format: Paperback
$102.93

Donald Wesling’s leading argument, drawn from a crossover theory of the humanities, has philosophy and literature...  Read More >>

Affirmation Und Kritik Des Modernen Zeitregimes Bei Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine Und Gottfried Keller: Konzeptionen Von Zeit Und Geschichte 1789-1890

Affirmation Und Kritik Des Modernen Zeitregimes Bei...

Author: Florian Trabert
ISBN: 9783111504285
Format: Hardback
$319.41

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Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain

Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain...

Author: Katherine Judith Anderson
ISBN: 9780814258279
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Applies critical terrorism studies to fiction by Eliot, Trollope, and others to argue that Victorians ushered in...  Read More >>

Komödien: Griechisch - Deutsch

Komödien: Griechisch - Deutsch

Author: Menander ,  Niklas Holzberg
ISBN: 9783111634890
Format: Hardback
$174.21

Menanders Komödien des 4./3. Jh. v. Chr. sind für uns der Beginn einer Dramentradition, die motivisch und strukturell...  Read More >>

Dämonie Der Illusion - l'Illusion Et Le Démoniaque: Semantik, Episteme, Performanz - Sémantique, Épistémè, Performance

Dämonie Der Illusion - l'Illusion Et Le Démoniaque:...

Author: Susanne Goumegou ,  Jörg Robert
ISBN: 9783111383927
Format: Hardback
$203.25

The illusio daemoniaca played a central role in debates about magic and witchcraft in the Early Modern period. This...  Read More >>

Parentheses of Reception

Parentheses of Reception

Author: John T. Hamilton ,  Evina Sistakou
ISBN: 9783111678610
Format: Hardback
$329.91

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Medbh McGuckian

Medbh McGuckian

Author: Borbála Faragó
ISBN: 9781684485499
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This wide-ranging study of one of the most innovative, daring, and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland...  Read More >>

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