Literary studies: general books

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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 >>

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 >>

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The first text, translation and commentary of an unpublished 18th-century Latin didactic poem about the Brazilian...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 >>

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 >>

Commentary on Plotinus

Commentary on Plotinus

Author: Marsilio Ficino ,  Stephen Gersh
ISBN: 9780674303218
Format: Hardback
$61.95

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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 >>

Katherine Mansfield and London

Katherine Mansfield and London

Author: Aime Gasston ,  Gerri Kimber
ISBN: 9781399539173
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain

Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain

Author: Bill Angus (Senior Lecturer in English, Massey University) ,  Lisa Hopkins (Professor Emerita of English, Sheffield Hallam University)
ISBN: 9781399534499
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...

Author: David Finkelstein (Cultural Historian)
ISBN: 9781474424899
Format: Paperback
$140.00

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

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 >>

Forms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction

Forms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction

Author: Alberto Tondello (Lecturer in the English Department, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781399547413
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvre.  Read More >>

Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic

Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the...

Author: Orianne Smith (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
ISBN: 9781009650021
Format: Hardback
$245.81

From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith...  Read More >>

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes and Devices

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes...

Author: Gavriel Shapiro
ISBN: 9781680535907
Format: Hardback
$187.00

Delve into a creative universe built on faith as the cornerstone of ethics, where moral dilemmas and cruelty intertwine...  Read More >>

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