Literary studies: general books

314349 books were found.

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Author: Robert White (Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781399516228
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Author: Frederick D. King (Assistant Professor for the Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University)
ISBN: 9781399525954
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture...  Read More >>

Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Author: Arin Keeble (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Edinburgh Napier University)
ISBN: 9781474478687
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century  Read More >>

Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty

Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty

Author: Kate Jenckes (University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9798855805406
Format: Hardback
$316.80

A fresh look at how Borges's most celebrated stories critique various forms of sovereignty, from philosophical ideals...  Read More >>

Divine Representations: The Rise of the Mystical Novel in Twentieth-Century England

Divine Representations: The Rise of the Mystical Novel...

Author: Carla A. Arnell (Lake Forest College)
ISBN: 9798855805321
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Explores how Edwardian era writers used the mystical novel as a way to represent transcendent experiences within...  Read More >>

A History of Old English Verse Layout: Poetics on The Page

A History of Old English Verse Layout: Poetics on The...

Author: Rachel A. Burns (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781802704440
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Presents the first full history of Old English poetic mise-en-page, paying special attention to lineation, and arguing...  Read More >>

Long-Distance Trade in the Ancient World: A Network History

Long-Distance Trade in the Ancient World: A Network...

Author: Eivind Heldaas Seland
ISBN: 9783031908545
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book presents a novel perspective on long-distance trade in the ancient world that integrates network theory...  Read More >>

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64, No. 395, September, 1848

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64, No. 395, September,...

Author: Various
ISBN: 9781025236223
Format: Hardback
$89.63

""Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64, No. 395, September, 1848"" offers a captivating journey back to the heart...  Read More >>

Books and Men

Books and Men

Author: Agnes Repplier
ISBN: 9781025238432
Format: Hardback
$81.71

Publisher: Houghton Publication date: 1888 Subjects: History / General History / United States / General Humor /...  Read More >>

The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

Author: Annie Russell Marble
ISBN: 9781025253053
Format: Hardback
$89.63

Dive into a comprehensive exploration of literary greatness with Annie Russell Marble's acclaimed work, ""The Nobel...  Read More >>

The Little Review, November 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 7)

The Little Review, November 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 7)

Author: Various ,  Margaret C Anderson
ISBN: 9781025244242
Format: Hardback
$81.71

""The Little Review, November 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 7)"" offers an authentic portal into the groundbreaking American...  Read More >>

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility...

Author: Joel Duncan
ISBN: 9780813954035
Format: Paperback
$80.99

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Author: Petra Johana Poncarová (Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781399501200
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores Derick Thomson's far-reaching influence on the 20th-century revival of Scottish Gaelic  Read More >>

Solitudes: Italian Literature at the Root of European Culture

Solitudes: Italian Literature at the Root of European...

Author: Giorgio Ficara ,  Igor Candido
ISBN: 9783111623658
Format: Hardback
$252.28

By the end of modern times, the solitary man had become a destitute and infirm man, though curable with the balms...  Read More >>

Charis and Charisma: Max Weber and the Aesthetic-Philosophical Discourse on Grace from Winckelmann to Nietzsche

Charis and Charisma: Max Weber and the Aesthetic-Philosophical...

Author: James Rasmussen
ISBN: 9783111562537
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This project pursues a genealogical study of the concept of charisma in its Weberian form. It addresses the question...  Read More >>

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524292
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

Hydropoetics: An Ecocritical Perspective on Human-Water Relationships in Eastern European Arts

Hydropoetics: An Ecocritical Perspective on Human-Water...

Author: Jana Rogoff ,  Susanne Frank
ISBN: 9783837673579
Format: Paperback
$90.95

A study of human-water-power relationships in Eastern European cultures: an important contribution to the vibrant...  Read More >>

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing,...

Author: Louis Kirk McAuley (Associate Professor in the Department of English, Washington State University)
ISBN: 9781399527156
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes: Languages of Invention

Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes:...

Author: A. J. Carruthers (Associate Professor in the English Department, Nanjing University)
ISBN: 9781399526838
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Examines Australian avant-garde poetry from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries  Read More >>

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of...

Author: Arnab Dutta Roy ,  Paul Ugor
ISBN: 9781496242648
Format: Hardback
$130.90

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As I Was Saying

As I Was Saying

Author: Cecilia Konchar Farr ,  Janie Sisson
ISBN: 9781628974584
Format: Paperback
$79.07

An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein's masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of...  Read More >>

An Empire of Elites: The Self-Representation of the Senatorial Aristocracy in the Later Roman State in the Fourth Century AD

An Empire of Elites: The Self-Representation of the...

Author: Mariana Bodnaruk
ISBN: 9781032360089
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Religion, and the Search for Grace

Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Religion, and...

Author: Heather Ostman (Westchester Community College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032688763
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This monograph explores selected texts by four major American authors: Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sojourner...  Read More >>

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and...

Author: Tony Fabijančić
ISBN: 9781041123002
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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