Literary studies: general books

316635 books were found.

Mom and Me and Mom

Mom and Me and Mom

Author: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780349017129
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

Author: Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) ,  Professor Andrew McConnell Stott (University of Southern California, USA)
ISBN: 9781350440692
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces...  Read More >>

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While...

Author: Farah Karim-Cooper
ISBN: 9780861548095
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Shakespeare: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon?  Read More >>

Somewhere Towards The End

Somewhere Towards The End

Author: Diana Athill (Y)
ISBN: 9781803510927
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism

Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age...

Author: Professor Ilya Kliger
ISBN: 9780226831862
Format: Hardback
$163.95

An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state. The nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary Influence

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary...

Author: David Greven
ISBN: 9780813951010
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Explores the English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race....  Read More >>

A Multidisciplinary Exploration into Flow in Writing

A Multidisciplinary Exploration into Flow in Writing...

Author: Deborah F. Rossen-Knill ,  Katherine L. Schaefer (University of Rochester, USA)
ISBN: 9781032604954
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Offering a multidisciplinary exploration of “flow” and the often-nebulous ways it is conceptualized and operationalized...  Read More >>

HoneyVoiced: A Translation of Pindar’s Songs for Athletes

HoneyVoiced: A Translation of Pindar’s Songs for Athletes...

Author: Dr James Bradley Wells (DePauw University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350226401
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy and the Middle East: Chasing the Myth

Greek Tragedy and the Middle East: Chasing the Myth...

Author: Pauline Donizeau ,  Yassaman Khajehi
ISBN: 9781350355699
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Employing the idea of interculturality to study Middle Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy from the turn of 20th...  Read More >>

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception: Intersections of Myth, Science and History

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception:...

Author: Professor David Christenson ,  Cynthia White
ISBN: 9781350344679
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception....  Read More >>

Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter

Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations...

Author: Carol Atherton
ISBN: 9780241629482
Format: Hardback
$42.99

An English teacher's love letter to reading and teaching- an eye-opening journey through the books we read at school,...  Read More >>

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literature

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication...

Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland
ISBN: 9781039187535
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literary History explores how literary history...  Read More >>

Robert Lowell In Context

Robert Lowell In Context

Author: Thomas Austenfeld (University of Fribourg) ,  Grzegorz Kość (University of Warsaw)
ISBN: 9781009465717
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various...  Read More >>

The Postcolonial Millennium: New Directions in Malaysian Literature in English

The Postcolonial Millennium: New Directions in Malaysian...

Author: Mohammad A. Quayum (Flinders University, Australia) ,  Grace V.S. Chin (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
ISBN: 9781032669724
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book comprises a collection of essays that address a significant gap in the study of Malaysian Literature in...  Read More >>

Philosophy with Clarice Lispector

Philosophy with Clarice Lispector

Author: Fernanda Negrete (University at Buffalo, USA)
ISBN: 9781032684505
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines Clarice Lispector’s body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical...  Read More >>

Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing

Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American...

Author: Daniel McKay ,  Patrick Porter
ISBN: 9781531505165
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured...  Read More >>

As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment...

Author: H Murav
ISBN: 9780253068804
Format: Paperback
$92.00

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Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition

Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance...

Author: Marc Dollinger ,  Ilana Kaufman
ISBN: 9781479826896
Format: Paperback
$70.99

"""Black Power, Jewish Politics expands with this revised edition that includes the controversial new preface, an...  Read More >>

The Medieval Pig

The Medieval Pig

Author: Dolly Jørgensen
ISBN: 9781837651689
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources.  Read More >>

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literature

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication...

Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland
ISBN: 9781039187542
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literary History explores how literary history...  Read More >>

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies...

Author: D. Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9781469678405
Format: Paperback
$68.20

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The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval...

Author: Royall Tyler
ISBN: 9780231214674
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of the crucial decades surrounding the events chronicled...  Read More >>

As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment...

Author: H Murav
ISBN: 9780253068798
Format: Hardback
$186.99

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Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)

Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with...

Author: Xiaolu Ma
ISBN: 9780674295834
Format: Hardback
$103.95

Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian...  Read More >>

Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition

Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance...

Author: Marc Dollinger ,  Ilana Kaufman
ISBN: 9781479826889
Format: Hardback
$210.00

"""Black Power, Jewish Politics expands with this revised edition that includes the controversial new preface, an...  Read More >>

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