Literary studies: general books

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Author: Oscar Wilde ,  Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780192848024
Format: Paperback
$20.95

A new edition of Oscar Wilde's witty and radical major plays that elegantly challenge Victorian conceptions of social...  Read More >>

In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom

In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom

Author: Marcel Proust ,  Edward J. Hughes (Emeritus Professor of French, Emeritus Professor of French, Queen Mary University of London)
ISBN: 9780192845672
Format: Paperback
$24.95

In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom is the second volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one...  Read More >>

Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique

Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique

Author: Robert Lucas Scott
ISBN: 9780226838083
Format: Hardback
$190.95

Retrieves Hegelian speculative experience for literary theory. The relationship between Hegel and literary theory...  Read More >>

Revivals of Classical Drama in Greece and Spain (1860s–1970s): Theatre in the Realm of Ideology

Revivals of Classical Drama in Greece and Spain (1860s–1970s):...

Author: Vasileios Balaskas (Substitute Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies, Substitute Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies, University of Málaga)
ISBN: 9780198929895
Format: Hardback
$228.95

Vasileios Balaskas examines how Classical drama was revived at ancient European venues during the nineteenth and...  Read More >>

Die Geschichte Der Schweiz: Von den Anfängen bis 1848

Die Geschichte Der Schweiz: Von den Anfängen bis 1848...

Author: Skriuwer Com ,  Yahia Fathy
ISBN: 9798319114556
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Plutarch: Alexander: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary

Plutarch: Alexander: Translated with an Introduction...

Author: Christopher Pelling (Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192865182
Format: Hardback
$482.95

Christopher Pelling provides the first detailed commentary and translation with notes in over fifty years of Plutarch's...  Read More >>

Headlong Hall & Nightmare Abbey

Headlong Hall & Nightmare Abbey

Author: Thomas Love Peacock ,  L. A. Davenport
ISBN: 9781916937086
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Two timeless satires by Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey blend wit and philosophy to lampoon...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535878937
Format: Hardback
$1496.88

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535878944
Format: Hardback
$1496.88

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American...

Author: John D. Kerkering (Loyola University, Chicago)
ISBN: 9781108841894
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed,...  Read More >>

Fremde Flantsungen Oyf Yidishn Bodn / Fremde Pflanzen Auf Jiddischem Boden / Foreign Plants on Yiddish Soil: Yidishe Makhshoves Vegn Iberzetsn / Jiddische Reflexionen Zum Übersetzen / Yiddish Reflections on Translation

Fremde Flantsungen Oyf Yidishn Bodn / Fremde Pflanzen...

Author: Efrat Gal-Ed ,  Daria Vakhrushova
ISBN: 9783111360041
Format: Hardback
$116.13

""Die Sprache ist für den Dichter mehr als ein Gefäß, in das er seinen Zaubertrunk hineingibt; sie ist der Trunk...  Read More >>

Proximities: Literature, Mobility, and the Politics of Displacement

Proximities: Literature, Mobility, and the Politics...

Author: John Culbert
ISBN: 9781836242925
Format: Hardback
$310.50

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Oscar Wilde and Nihilism

Oscar Wilde and Nihilism

Author: Colin Cavendish-Jones
ISBN: 9781032900636
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde’s major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism...  Read More >>

Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age: The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy...

Author: Deryl Davis
ISBN: 9781032523156
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok’s religious epic The Course of Time. Considers...  Read More >>

Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics

Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics

Author: Laura Jansen (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780192870698
Format: Hardback
$193.95

Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual...  Read More >>

Verfahren der Textherstellung bei Johann Michael Moscherosch: Bearbeiten – Übersetzen – Erproben

Verfahren der Textherstellung bei Johann Michael Moscherosch:...

Author: Sofia Derer
ISBN: 9789004723764
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The book examines the works of early modern satirist Johann Michael Moscherosch and pays special attention to the...  Read More >>

Écologies littéraires africaines: L’imaginaire de l’environnement dans la littérature francophone postcoloniale

Écologies littéraires africaines: L’imaginaire de l’environnement...

Author: Sara Buekens
ISBN: 9789004726734
Format: Hardback
$308.88

This book examines the relationship between literature, the environment and ecology in contemporary French-language...  Read More >>

El siglo XIX en la narrativa argentina reciente: Pueblo, agencia política y justicia social

El siglo XIX en la narrativa argentina reciente: Pueblo,...

Author: Barbara Jaroszuk
ISBN: 9789004730335
Format: Hardback
$359.04

This book examines how early 21st-century Argentinian narratives reinterpret 19th-century history amidst the rise...  Read More >>

Muktikami Mohini Mohana

Muktikami Mohini Mohana

Author: Manindra Kumar Meher
ISBN: 9781645606666
Format: Paperback
$36.96

ଫକୀରମୋହନ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ ସ୍ନାତକୋତ୍ତର ଭାଷା ଓ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ବିଭାଗର ମୁଖ୍ୟ ଭାବରେ କାର୍ଯ୍ୟରତ ଥିବାବେଳେ ଲକ୍ଷ୍ୟକଲି ଯେ, ଆମ ପାଠ୍ୟକ୍ରମରେ...  Read More >>

Reading Oscar Wilde: An Introduction

Reading Oscar Wilde: An Introduction

Author: Michael Patrick Gillespie
ISBN: 9781032662305
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde’s...  Read More >>

Food, Feasting and Table Manners in the Early Renaissance: Volume II: From the Iberian Peninsula towards a New World

Food, Feasting and Table Manners in the Early Renaissance:...

Author: Guillermo Alvar Nuño
ISBN: 9781032331270
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The present volume focuses on a two-fold issue: food as a cultural element that united Mediterranean European society,...  Read More >>

Transkulturationen Des Pikaresken in Den Romanischsprachigen Literaturen Afrikas Und Lateinamerikas

Transkulturationen Des Pikaresken in Den Romanischsprachigen...

Author: Susanne Goumegou ,  Agnieszka Komorowska
ISBN: 9783825347147
Format: Hardback
$208.56

Pikareskes Erzahlen hat offensichtlich Konjunktur in der literarischen (Post)Moderne Lateinamerikas und Afrikas....  Read More >>

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