Literary studies: general books

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Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective

Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective...

Author: Kimberley Pager-­McClymont (University of Aberdeen’s Internation Study Centre) ,  Suzanne McClure (University of Liverpool)
ISBN: 9781009511360
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together...  Read More >>

Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

Author: Katherine Krauss (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Kalamazoo College)
ISBN: 9780198926672
Format: Hardback
$234.95

This volume offers a new reading of Macrobius' place in late antique literary history with an exploration of the...  Read More >>

Socialist Transnationality in Translation: Dutch-Language Literature in East Central Europe and the Balkans, 1945–1990

Socialist Transnationality in Translation: Dutch-Language...

Author: Professor or Dr. Wilken Engelbrecht (Univerzita Palackého, Krížkovského, Czech Republic) ,  Professor or Dr. Ton van Kalmthout (Center for the Arts in Society, Leiden University, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9798765113745
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The first study examining the translation and reception of Dutch literature in Eastern and Central Europe during...  Read More >>

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300–1579

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric...

Author: Holton
ISBN: 9780192873545
Format: Hardback
$202.95

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Author: Isabelle Torrance (Assistant Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781350430426
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This intersectional study demonstrates for the first time how the lens of Graeco-Roman antiquity has informed Irish...  Read More >>

Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes

Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes

Author: Dr Eleanor Houghton (Historical costume consultant, writer and illustrator)
ISBN: 9781350514089
Format: Hardback
$50.00

A renowned Brontë scholar and dress historian’s innovative, richly illustrated biography explores Charlotte Brontë's...  Read More >>

Rethinking Feeling: On the Renegotiation of Emotions in German Novels at the Fin de Siècle

Rethinking Feeling: On the Renegotiation of Emotions...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Holly A. Yanacek (James Madison University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765158395
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the Queen of Crime's Capital

Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the...

Author: Tina Hodgkinson
ISBN: 9781837050796
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Rediscover the capital through the eyes of the Queen of Crime  Read More >>

Universality and Utopia: The 20th Century Indigenista Peruvian Tradition

Universality and Utopia: The 20th Century Indigenista...

Author: Daniel Sacilotto
ISBN: 9781839998386
Format: Paperback
$50.00

This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenistaliterary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation...  Read More >>

The Ecstasy of Reproduction: Postmodernity and Its Contemporaneity

The Ecstasy of Reproduction: Postmodernity and Its Contemporaneity...

Author: Alberto Castelli
ISBN: 9781839998720
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity....  Read More >>

Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene

Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural...

Author: Nicolás Campisi ,  Lucas Mertehikian
ISBN: 9781683405559
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions,...  Read More >>

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West...

Author: Jeanne-Marie Jackson
ISBN: 9780691270999
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

Bloke of All Ages: Persepectives on Bloke Modisane

Bloke of All Ages: Persepectives on Bloke Modisane

Author: Bloke Modisane ,  Siyabonga Njica
ISBN: 9781776149759
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Bloke of All Ages offers refreshing new insights into the works of one of South Africa’s most important literary,...  Read More >>

Greek New Comedy Beyond Menander

Greek New Comedy Beyond Menander

Author: Virginia Mastellari
ISBN: 9783119144285
Format: Hardback
$92.92

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Literature of the 1920s: Writers Among the Ruins: Volume 3

Literature of the 1920s: Writers Among the Ruins: Volume...

Author: Chris Baldick (Professor of English, Goldsmiths University of London) ,  Randall Stevenson
ISBN: 9780748627318
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This series of ten volumes presents a decade-by-decade account of how literature developed in Britain throughout...  Read More >>

Literature of the 1950s: Good, Brave Causes: Volume 6

Literature of the 1950s: Good, Brave Causes: Volume...

Author: Alice Ferrebe (Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University)
ISBN: 9780748627721
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period.  Read More >>

The Faustian Pact in International Law

The Faustian Pact in International Law

Author: Edwin Bikundo (Senior Lecturer, School of Law at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia)
ISBN: 9781474455671
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international law  Read More >>

The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies: Law, Politics, Culture

The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies: Law, Politics,...

Author: James Gilchrist Stewart (Senior Lecturer in Law, RMIT University)
ISBN: 9781399515320
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the life, death, and afterlife of the Critical Legal Studies Movement  Read More >>

Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era

Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment...

Author: Martin Griffin (Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Tennessee)
ISBN: 9781399520805
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

The Spirit of Aristophanes

The Spirit of Aristophanes

Author: Mary C English (Professor of Classics and General Humanities, Montclair State University_x000D_) ,  Dustin W Dixon (Assistant Professor of Classics, Grinnell College)
ISBN: 9781399511988
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

Author: Peter Adkins (Lecturer in Modernist Literature, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781399516693
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

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