Literary studies: general books

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New Orleans: A Writer's City

New Orleans: A Writer's City
Author: T. R. Johnson (Tulane University, Louisiana) ISBN: 9781009060301 Format: Paperback	$41.37
This book is the perfect starting point for those who want to read their way through New Orleans, for it orchestrates... Read More >>

Arab Nationalism, Decolonization and the Making of a Transregional Literature

Arab Nationalism, Decolonization and the Making of a...
Author: Anne-Marie McManus (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin) ISBN: 9781009575294 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is... Read More >>

The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present

The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present...
Author: Christian R. Gelder (Macquarie University, Sydney) ISBN: 9781009710213 Format: Hardback	$245.81
This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new... Read More >>

Utopia

Utopia
Author: Duncan Bell (Professor of Political Thought and International Relations, Professor of Political Thought and International Relations, University of Cambridge) , Douglas Mao (Russ Family Professor in the Humanities, English Department, Russ Family Professor in the Humanities, English Department, Johns Hopkins University) ISBN: 9780198922889 Format: Hardback	$218.95
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Antiquity Made Present in Reformation England: Classical Translation and the Politics of Counsel, 1530–1580

Antiquity Made Present in Reformation England: Classical...
Author: Fred Schurink (University of Manchester) ISBN: 9781009647656 Format: Hardback	$245.81
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Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean War: Comparing North and South Korean Writing

Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean War:...
Author: Jerome de Wit (University of Tübingen, Germany) ISBN: 9781350106529 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean... Read More >>

The Epic Poetry of Mazisi Kunene: African Literature, Aesthetic, and Transatlantic Formulation

The Epic Poetry of Mazisi Kunene: African Literature,...
Author: Prof. or Dr. Dike Okoro (Harris Stowe State University, USA) ISBN: 9781501398896 Format: Hardback	$180.00
An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the... Read More >>

Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature

Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000...
Author: Dr. Penny Cartwright (University of Oxford, UK) , Professor or Dr. Abimbola Adelakun (University of Texas at Austin, USA) ISBN: 9798765109717 Format: Hardback	$180.00
An examination of alternate imaginaries of ‘the global’ in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the... Read More >>

Charismatic Nations: A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present

Charismatic Nations: A Cultural History of Nationalism...
Author: Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam) ISBN: 9781009667159 Format: Hardback	$103.50
This gripping history offers a unique understanding of the pervasive influence of nationalism in both politics and... Read More >>

Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural

Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural
Author: Dorka Tamás (Royal Holloway, University of London) ISBN: 9781009575515 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Refocuses Sylvia Plath's affiliations with 'the occult' on the legacies of the early modern witch trials. Drawing... Read More >>

A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories

A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories...
Author: Irene J. F. de Jong (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ISBN: 9781108470988 Format: Hardback	$388.12
This commentary offers a close reading of one of the most famous ancient texts, Herodotus' Histories. It focuses... Read More >>

José Basílio da Gama's Brazilian Goldmines

José Basílio da Gama's Brazilian Goldmines
Author: Leni Ribeiro Leite (University of Kentucky, USA) , Dreykon Fernandes Nascimento (Independent Scholar, Brazil) ISBN: 9781350458185 Format: Hardback	$180.00
The first text, translation and commentary of an unpublished 18th-century Latin didactic poem about the Brazilian... Read More >>

Epicurus’ Human Beings: Beyond Person and Self

Epicurus’ Human Beings: Beyond Person and Self
Author: Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna) ISBN: 9780192874962 Format: Hardback	$246.95
Ancient philosophers developed a rich toolbox to better reach, teach, and affect their addressees or, indeed, practitioners,... Read More >>

Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives

Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William...
Author: Robert D. Richardson , Megan Marshall ISBN: 9780691224329 Format: Paperback	$29.99
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience... Read More >>

Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time

Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time
Author: Paul Maher, Jr. ISBN: 9781493089741 Format: Paperback	$51.99
Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized... Read More >>

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
Author: Andrew Blauner ISBN: 9780691242453 Format: Paperback	$39.99
A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five... Read More >>

Commentary on Plotinus

Commentary on Plotinus
Author: Marsilio Ficino , Stephen Gersh ISBN: 9780674303218 Format: Hardback	$61.95
Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation... Read More >>

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About...
Author: Sarah Ruden ISBN: 9781324075905 Format: Hardback	$49.95
A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent... Read More >>

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in...
Author: Donald M. Shaffer ISBN: 9781496855978 Format: Hardback	$229.00
A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900-2017

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...
Author: Martin Conboy (Professor of Journalism History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Sheffield) , Adrian Bingham (Professor of Modern British History, University of Sheffield) ISBN: 9781474424936 Format: Paperback	$140.00
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Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch

Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally...
Author: Luke O'Sullivan (Career Development Fellow in Early Modern French, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781399522977 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945–1965

The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945–1965...
Author: Michael Kalisch (Lecturer in 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature, University of Bristol) ISBN: 9781399526876 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature


Author: Ghazouane Arslane (Lecturer in the Department of English, Larbi Tebessi University) ISBN: 9781399504690 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation 1640–1800

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...
Author: Nicholas Brownlees (Professor of English Language, University of Florence, Italy) ISBN: 9781474499187 Format: Paperback	$140.00
Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain... Read More >>

Lyn Hejinian, The Proposition: Uncollected Early Poems 1963–1983

Lyn Hejinian, The Proposition: Uncollected Early Poems...
Author: Lyn Hejinian (Professor in the Department of English, University of California, Berkeley) , Georgina Colby (Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Westminster) ISBN: 9781399557764 Format: Paperback	$57.99
A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983 Read More >>

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