Literary studies: general books

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The Czech Legend of St Catherine of Alexandria: The Text and its Contexts

The Czech Legend of St Catherine of Alexandria: The...

Author: Alfred Thomas (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843847151
Format: Hardback
$168.19

The first complete translation of a fascinating piece of Czech literature.  Read More >>

Italian Literature IV: Il Tristano Riccardiano, MS 1729 (Parodi’s siglum ‘F’)

Italian Literature IV: Il Tristano Riccardiano, MS 1729...

Author: Gloria Allaire (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843847168
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Critical edition with facing-page English translation of the fourteenth-century Il Tristano Riccardiano, MS 1729....  Read More >>

Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels

Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels

Author: Amechi Nicholas Akwanya
ISBN: 9781032746647
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary...  Read More >>

The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature: Implicit and Symptomatic Readings

The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature: Implicit...

Author: MK Raghavendra
ISBN: 9781032695785
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language...  Read More >>

Agencies in Feminist Translator Studies: Barbara Godard and the Crossroads of Literature in Canada

Agencies in Feminist Translator Studies: Barbara Godard...

Author: Elena Castellano-Ortolà
ISBN: 9781032523859
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book draws on the legacy of Canadian scholar Barbara Godard and her work in establishing the Canadian literary...  Read More >>

Frances Burney’s “Evelina”: The Book, its History, and its Paratext

Frances Burney’s “Evelina”: The Book, its History, and...

Author: Svetlana Kochkina
ISBN: 9783031177996
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public....  Read More >>

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484966
Format: Hardback
$266.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection: An Annotated Selection

Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection:...

Author: Young-mee Yu Cho ,  Sungmin Park
ISBN: 9781978828797
Format: Hardback
$105.47

"William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo....  Read More >>

Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability

Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country...

Author: Kemeshia Randle Swanson
ISBN: 9781496850645
Format: Hardback
$168.30

A pressing call to an accessible, nonconformist feminism for Black women  Read More >>

Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre

Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre...

Author: James J. Donahue
ISBN: 9781496850492
Format: Hardback
$168.30

How Indigenous creators impact the landscape of superhero, science fiction, historical, and experimental comics...  Read More >>

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Author: Earl E. Fitz
ISBN: 9781612499413
Format: Hardback
$169.40

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Conversations with Ben Okri

Conversations with Ben Okri

Author: Vanessa Guignery
ISBN: 9781496851550
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Over three decades of interviews with the innovative Nigerian author and first Black African winner of the Booker...  Read More >>

Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment: The Genius of Every Place

Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment:...

Author: Kevin L. Cope ,  Samara Anne Cahill
ISBN: 9781611463293
Format: Hardback
$219.00

This collection opens a panorama of essays celebrating diverse ways to participate in the British-and international-Enlightenment....  Read More >>

New Materialist Literary Theory: Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene

New Materialist Literary Theory: Critical Conceptions...

Author: Kerstin Howaldt, University of Erfurt ,  Kai Merten
ISBN: 9781666929126
Format: Hardback
$186.00

This collection brings together internationally renowned literary scholars to develop a literary theory for the...  Read More >>

Silence and Rage in Miriam Toews’s Mennonite Novels

Silence and Rage in Miriam Toews’s Mennonite Novels...

Author: Rita Dirks
ISBN: 9781793647474
Format: Hardback
$169.00

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Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Author: John M. Bowers (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Nevada) ,  Peter Steffensen (Instructor of English, Instructor of English, Bishop Gorman High School)
ISBN: 9780192848888
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows...  Read More >>

Nos Vemos en Estocolmo

Nos Vemos en Estocolmo

Author: William Castano-Bedoya
ISBN: 9798988867166
Format: Hardback
$75.90

"En el vibrante escenario del bohemio Barrio Franc�s de Nueva Orleans, seis escritores independientes se re�nen...  Read More >>

Aldous Huxley's Short Fiction

Aldous Huxley's Short Fiction

Author: Andrija Matić
ISBN: 9783031557743
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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Female Parts: Art and Politics of Women Playwrights

Female Parts: Art and Politics of Women Playwrights...

Author: Yvonne Hodkinson
ISBN: 9781895431070
Format: Hardback
$51.72

"This book analyzes the work of women playwrights who are in the process of creating a new vision in drama. ""Hodkinson...  Read More >>

Write To Me: Essays on Indian Poetry in English

Write To Me: Essays on Indian Poetry in English

Author: Basudhara Roy
ISBN: 9781645605430
Format: Paperback
$47.52

Write to Me is a slim collection of thirty-five essays on various poetry collections published by Indians between...  Read More >>

Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist

Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist

Author: Keyvan Allahyari
ISBN: 9783031275661
Format: Paperback
$343.17

Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist recounts Peter Carey’s literary career from his emergence in the Australian...  Read More >>

William Blake's Manuscripts: Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests

William Blake's Manuscripts: Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests...

Author: Mark Crosby ,  Josephine A. McQuail
ISBN: 9783031474354
Format: Hardback
$369.57

With the introduction of facsimile editions and more particularly, the William Blake Archive, the largest digital...  Read More >>

The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War

The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War...

Author: Jesse McCarthy
ISBN: 9780226832173
Format: Paperback
$41.95

"Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold...  Read More >>

The Merry Wives of Windsor: The New Oxford Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor: The New Oxford Shakespeare...

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Callan Davies (Writer and researcher, Writer and researcher)
ISBN: 9780192873576
Format: Paperback
$16.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction...  Read More >>

Macbeth: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Macbeth: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  John Jowett (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780192862426
Format: Paperback
$16.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

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