Literary studies: general books

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Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility

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

Author: Joel Duncan
ISBN: 9780813954028
Format: Hardback
$266.00

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

Milton and the Network of Disability, Embodiment and Care

Milton and the Network of Disability, Embodiment and...

Author: Angelica Duran (Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, Purdue University) ,  Pasquale Toscano (Assistant Professor of English, Vassar College)
ISBN: 9781399541459
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Situates the works, legend and reception of the Renaissance poet and politician John Milton within the network of...  Read More >>

The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film, 1959–1973

The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and...

Author: Sophie A. Jones (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Gender Studies, University of Strathclyde)
ISBN: 9781474433303
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Develops a new approach to the politics of reproduction in literature and film.  Read More >>

Neo-Victorian Decadence: Media, Genres, Eras

Neo-Victorian Decadence: Media, Genres, Eras

Author: Kostas Boyiopoulos ,  Joseph Thorne
ISBN: 9789004747302
Format: Hardback
$364.32

This is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines the overlooked cross-pollination between Fin-de-siècle...  Read More >>

Vladimir Nabokov's Bilingual Poetry: The Mirror of Self-Translation

Vladimir Nabokov's Bilingual Poetry: The Mirror of Self-Translation...

Author: Maria Emeliyanova
ISBN: 9789004748835
Format: Hardback
$300.96

The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Nabokov’s self-translated poetry, examining texts from...  Read More >>

Rama Rasa: Transcendence and Worldliness in the Ramayana Tradition

Rama Rasa: Transcendence and Worldliness in the Ramayana...

Author: Nikhil Govind (Head of the Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India.)
ISBN: 9789361313097
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Given the enormous interest in the religious and cultural figure of Rama, this book analyzes key classical texts...  Read More >>

The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, including Related Correspondence and Other Documents

The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, including Related...

Author: L. Adam Mekler
ISBN: 9781032994734
Format: Hardback
$543.38

This book offers the first modern, critical edition of the diary of John William Polidori (1795-1821). Polidori’s...  Read More >>

Lateinische Umgangssprache Von Plautus Bis Egeria: Submersion Und Kontinuität

Lateinische Umgangssprache Von Plautus Bis Egeria: Submersion...

Author: Katharina Weiten
ISBN: 9783119142229
Format: Hardback
$71.47

Schon Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts wurden Parallelen zwischen dem kolloquialen Latein eines Plautus und der spätantiken...  Read More >>

Post-trauma, Gender and Ecology: Paths of Slavic Literatures

Post-trauma, Gender and Ecology: Paths of Slavic Literatures...

Author: Christian Voß ,  Alessandro Amenta
ISBN: 9783631920572
Format: Paperback
$106.09

The book explores the dynamic intersections between trauma, gender and ecology issues within contemporary Slavic...  Read More >>

The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII: Three Papal Poets from Baroque to Risorgimento

The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and...

Author: Stephen Harrison (Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Gesine Manuwald (University College London UK)
ISBN: 9781350292376
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in...  Read More >>

Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Examining a Controversial Legacy

Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Examining...

Author: Birgit Haberpeuntner (University of Vienna, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350387218
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory,...  Read More >>

Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation

Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation

Author: Eugene O'Brien ,  Ian Hickey
ISBN: 9781032988320
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation is comprised of eleven essays that examine the Nobel prize winning poet’s...  Read More >>

Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics

Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics

Author: Nadja Gernalzick ,  Edwina Hagen
ISBN: 9781032409443
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate...  Read More >>

Racine’s Late Greek Tragedies: Essays on ‘Iphigénie’ and ‘Phèdre’

Racine’s Late Greek Tragedies: Essays on ‘Iphigénie’...

Author: Nicholas Hammond ,  Paul Hammond
ISBN: 9789004755475
Format: Hardback
$348.48

Racine's two late tragedies inspired by Greek myth, Iphigénie and Phèdre, are rarely explored in tandem with each...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Rebecca Parks
ISBN: 9781535886567
Format: Hardback
$1496.88

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Jack Kerouac and the American Spectacle: Resistance and Authenticity in Primitivism, Transcendence, and Communion

Jack Kerouac and the American Spectacle: Resistance...

Author: Astrid Böger ,  Talal Hochard
ISBN: 9783631934142
Format: Hardback
$157.84

This book examines Jack Kerouac’s search for authenticity in postwar America. Through experimental prose, spiritual...  Read More >>

Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction

Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's...

Author: Jerome Winter
ISBN: 9781666956801
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The book argues that Ian McDonald’s globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism...  Read More >>

Realism after the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel

Realism after the Individual: Women, Desire, and the...

Author: Professor Rafael Walker
ISBN: 9780226845067
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who...  Read More >>

The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature: A Study of Empathy in a Time of Global Crisis

The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature:...

Author: Tammy Amiel Houser
ISBN: 9781032752136
Format: Paperback
$134.52

This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism following the 2008 financial crisis through...  Read More >>

The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love

The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the...

Author: Katie da Cunha Lewin
ISBN: 9780691283838
Format: Hardback
$71.15

A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature’s greatest writers created their most memorable works...  Read More >>

The Fiction of Sarah Harriet Burney

The Fiction of Sarah Harriet Burney

Author: Lorna J Clark
ISBN: 9781848935433
Format: Hardback
$809.00

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Keeping Time: Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar

Keeping Time: Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar

Author: Kristen Case
ISBN: 9781571311597
Format: Hardback
$92.40

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Textile Translations: Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings

Textile Translations: Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings...

Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
ISBN: 9781041146254
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Textile Translations: Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings offers a new and original perspective in Translation Studies....  Read More >>

Battle Lines Drawn: War Comics Since 1914

Battle Lines Drawn: War Comics Since 1914

Author: Stephen Connor ,  Harriet E.H. Earle
ISBN: 9781041105244
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Battle Lines Drawn: War Comics since 1914 delves into the rich and diverse history of war comics, exploring how...  Read More >>

The Old Man and the Wolves: A Novel

The Old Man and the Wolves: A Novel

Author: Julia Kristeva ,  Barbara Bray
ISBN: 9780231220873
Format: Paperback
$27.95

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