Literary studies: general books

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Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture: Comparative...

Author: Niels Boender
ISBN: 9781032733548
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book presents ‘homecoming’ as an analytical lens to better understand veterans' return and reintegration after...  Read More >>

Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours

Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period:...

Author: James Watt (University of York) ,  Alison O'Byrne (University of York)
ISBN: 9781108842693
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This collection reveals how travellers, writers and readers discovered Britain and Ireland as sites of tourism during...  Read More >>

Literature, Language and Computing: Russian Contribution from the LiLaC-2023

Literature, Language and Computing: Russian Contribution...

Author: Polina Eismont ,  Maria Khokhlova
ISBN: 9789819609895
Format: Hardback
$336.35

The book comprises the papers allocated into two sections discussing the study of corpora in language, translation,...  Read More >>

Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight

Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight...

Author: Arthur Bahr
ISBN: 9780226835358
Format: Hardback
$74.95

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and...  Read More >>

The Story of Sonechka

The Story of Sonechka

Author: Marina Tsvetaeva ,  I. B. Fishbeyn
ISBN: 9798887198040
Format: Hardback
$137.25

A previously untranslated masterpiece of Russian literature, The Story of Sonechka, written in 1937, is a vivid...  Read More >>

Reading as if for Life: Spirituality for Booklovers

Reading as if for Life: Spirituality for Booklovers...

Author: David Dickinson
ISBN: 9780718898175
Format: Paperback
$58.22

Reading as if for Life takes us beyond the spirituality of sacred texts, and into the spiritual possibilities of...  Read More >>

Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology

Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology...

Author: Ann Fisher-Wirth ,  Laura-Gray Street
ISBN: 9781595343086
Format: Paperback
$46.55

More than 150 contemporary poems exploring the intersections of ecological awareness, social justice, and challenges...  Read More >>

Classics and Race: A Historical Reader

Classics and Race: A Historical Reader

Author: Sarah Derbew ,  Daniel Orrells
ISBN: 9781800088108
Format: Hardback
$142.31

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Supplices et Tortures (Littérature, Théâtre, Cinéma)

Supplices et Tortures (Littérature, Théâtre, Cinéma)...

Author: Sarah Al-Matary ,  Jérémie Majorel
ISBN: 9789004729230
Format: Hardback
$332.64

Uncover the hidden connections between suffering and artistic expression in this groundbreaking exploration of torture...  Read More >>

Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World

Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the...

Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell
ISBN: 9780813952543
Format: Paperback
$91.99

A darkly alluring plant family and the arrival of modernity Victorian Nightshades tells the story of how one plant...  Read More >>

Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History

Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History

Author: Sheldon Pollock
ISBN: 9788173048654
Format: Hardback
$130.90

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Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Faith Barter
ISBN: 9781469685977
Format: Paperback
$80.99

A juxtaposition of nineteenth-century law and literature to show how Black writers counterintuitively used legal...  Read More >>

Michael Hofmann: An Extended Passport Application

Michael Hofmann: An Extended Passport Application

Author: André Naffis-Sahely
ISBN: 9780807183977
Format: Hardback
$92.99

For more than four decades, Michael Hofmann has made significant contributions to the literary cultures of Germany,...  Read More >>

Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764–90): Women, Alienation, and Prodigality in the Long Eighteenth Century

Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764–90): Women,...

Author: Kathryn Freeman
ISBN: 9781526175007
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Centralising the prolific English novelist, Phebe Gibbes, in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period,...  Read More >>

The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World

The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World...

Author: Christine Elliott
ISBN: 9783031389047
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World argues that coffee-table books appeared and became popular...  Read More >>

Gangadhar-Rabindra

Gangadhar-Rabindra

Author: Manindra Kumar Meher ,  Narayan Das Mawatwal
ISBN: 9781645606703
Format: Paperback
$39.60

This book is a comparative study between two great poets of the adjacent states. While studying and analyzing their...  Read More >>

Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture

Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays...

Author: Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota, USA)
ISBN: 9781032903934
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture is a selection of Jack Zipes’s...  Read More >>

Facing up to the History of Emotions

Facing up to the History of Emotions

Author: Stephanie Downes ,  Stephanie Trigg
ISBN: 9783031464157
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a focus...  Read More >>

Vuelo sobre las profundidades / Flight Above the Depths

Vuelo sobre las profundidades / Flight Above the Depths...

Author: José Agustín
ISBN: 9786073824156
Format: Paperback
$36.83

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Engagements with Adaptation

Engagements with Adaptation

Author: Thomas Leitch
ISBN: 9781032572321
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book invites students to consider adaptations on their own terms and to engage with the questions they raise...  Read More >>

Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse: Time, Space, Bodies, and Things

Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse: Time, Space,...

Author: Justyna Jaguscik ,  Joanna Krenz
ISBN: 9789048559978
Format: Hardback
$375.19

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Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans

Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature, and Imagination...

Author: Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano
ISBN: 9781512827309
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Placing Ottoman court poetry in its social and historical context, Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano argues that poetry functioned...  Read More >>

Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World

Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the...

Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell
ISBN: 9780813952536
Format: Hardback
$277.00

A darkly alluring plant family and the arrival of modernity Victorian Nightshades tells the story of how one plant...  Read More >>

A Companion to the Translation of Classical Epic

A Companion to the Translation of Classical Epic

Author: Richard H. Armstrong (University of Houston, USA) ,  Alexandra Lianeri (The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
ISBN: 9781119094265
Format: Hardback
$323.95

The first volume of its kind to integrate trends in Translation Studies with Classical Reception Studies A Companion...  Read More >>

Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Faith Barter
ISBN: 9781469685960
Format: Hardback
$229.00

A juxtaposition of nineteenth-century law and literature to show how Black writers counterintuitively used legal...  Read More >>

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