Literary studies: general books

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William Godwin: A Biographical Study

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9780921689485
Format: Paperback
$52.77

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov

Author: Jacques Ranciere ,  Steven Corcoran
ISBN: 9781509567348
Format: Hardback
$72.95

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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and...

Author: Renée Bergland
ISBN: 9780691235301
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of...

Author: Theodore Hughes (Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780231186070
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer...

Author: Holly A. Crocker
ISBN: 9781512829679
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James

Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience...

Author: Jane F. Thrailkill
ISBN: 9781512829624
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This collective study of the James siblings--Alice, William, and Henry--lights up their shared intellectual project:...  Read More >>

The Craft of Living: Journals, 1935-1950

The Craft of Living: Journals, 1935-1950

Author: Cesare Pavese ,  Iuri Moscardi
ISBN: 9781487560508
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Through his journals (19351950), Cesare Pavese opens a door into his life as one of Italy's most influential writers....  Read More >>

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of...

Author: Theodore Hughes (Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780231186063
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

Epistemology and Secrecy in John Banville’s Crime Fiction

Epistemology and Secrecy in John Banville’s Crime Fiction...

Author: Joakim Wrethed
ISBN: 9783032164643
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book is a phenomenological study of the crime fiction of Benjamin Black and John Banville, including novels...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to French Art Song

The Cambridge Companion to French Art Song

Author: Stephen Rumph (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9781009087575
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Drawing on new research, this wide-ranging book includes chapters by both scholars and performers. It gives proper...  Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...

Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York)
ISBN: 9781009584562
Format: Paperback
$72.45

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

Bertolt Brecht in Context

Bertolt Brecht in Context

Author: Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781108445177
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential...  Read More >>

Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality in the Caribbean, Volume 2

Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality in...

Author: Karen Carpenter
ISBN: 9783032037879
Format: Hardback
$448.77

Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality, Volume 2 looks at Caribbean sexuality from around the region and...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence

The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence

Author: Annalise Grice
ISBN: 9781350253735
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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