Literary studies: general books

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood...

Author: Lauren Rule Maxwell
ISBN: 9781603297219
Format: Hardback
$208.00

Explore creative approaches for teaching literature that interlace pressing social issues—climate challenges, political...  Read More >>

Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France

Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in...

Author: Natania Meeker
ISBN: 9781531512569
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure....  Read More >>

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You A Better Writer

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You A Better...

Author: Gary Alan McBride
ISBN: 9798999659804
Format: Hardback
$113.49

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You a Better Writer is a unique reference guide designed to teach writers...  Read More >>

The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of ""The Magic Mountain""

The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making...

Author: Morten Høi Jensen
ISBN: 9780300233742
Format: Hardback
$45.95

The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos...  Read More >>

The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death

The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing...

Author: Joanna Stalnaker
ISBN: 9780300181340
Format: Hardback
$61.95

A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical...  Read More >>

Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain

Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists...

Author: Kristin Bluemel
ISBN: 9781517914769
Format: Hardback
$270.00

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Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Author: Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia) ,  Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198972662
Format: Hardback
$199.95

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy

Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy

Author: Michael Frede (sometime Professor of the History of Philosophy, sometime Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Oxford) ,  George Boys-Stones (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780198889328
Format: Hardback
$296.95

This is a collection of seminal papers by the late Michael Frede on an important period in philosophical history,...  Read More >>

Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need

Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature,...

Author: Ian Marshall
ISBN: 9780813955186
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Nature's ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river,...  Read More >>

Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom

Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom

Author: Uwe Rasch
ISBN: 9783031576089
Format: Hardback
$118.77

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American Writers in Paris: Then and Now

American Writers in Paris: Then and Now

Author: Ferdâ Asya
ISBN: 9783031669897
Format: Hardback
$448.77

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Corporeality in the Novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Sony Labou Tansi: Bodies in (Con)texts

Corporeality in the Novels of Gabriel García Márquez...

Author: Gilbert Shang Ndi
ISBN: 9783032018014
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women

William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women...

Author: Jodie Marley
ISBN: 9783032038173
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical Companion

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical...

Author: Joseph Rex Young
ISBN: 9783032080226
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's...  Read More >>

Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art

Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives...

Author: Muhammad Waqar Azeem
ISBN: 9783032081902
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law...  Read More >>

New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle

New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle

Author: David A. Ibitson
ISBN: 9783032089724
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions...  Read More >>

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological Study

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological...

Author: Ármann Jakobsson
ISBN: 9783032111869
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British Performance

Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British...

Author: Eleanor Rycroft ,  Greg Walker
ISBN: 9783032121288
Format: Hardback
$118.77

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Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century: Redefining World Literature

Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century:...

Author: Ying Xiong
ISBN: 9783032121844
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to...  Read More >>

Human-Animal Relations in the Indigenous Literatures of the Soviet North

Human-Animal Relations in the Indigenous Literatures...

Author: Eeva Kuikka
ISBN: 9783032084149
Format: Hardback
$158.37

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Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

Author: Luke Roberts (Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry _x000D_, King’s College London_x000D_)
ISBN: 9781399519861
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

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