Literary studies: general books

313463 books were found.

Penny Dreadfuls: The Circulation Patterns of a Victorian Popular Genre

Penny Dreadfuls: The Circulation Patterns of a Victorian...

Author: Manon Burz-Labrande
ISBN: 9781839996306
Format: Paperback
$41.98

This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

Eyes of the Sky

Eyes of the Sky

Author: Kyle Shernuk ,  Syaman Rapongan
ISBN: 9780231211710
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Author: Matthew Thomas Miller
ISBN: 9780520426344
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Mezukak Shivatayim: Studies in Jewish Life and Literature in Honor of Bernard Septimus

Mezukak Shivatayim: Studies in Jewish Life and Literature...

Author: Edward Breuer ,  Elisha Russ-Fishbane
ISBN: 9780674303324
Format: Hardback
$113.95

The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture,...  Read More >>

Eyes of the Sky

Eyes of the Sky

Author: Kyle Shernuk ,  Syaman Rapongan
ISBN: 9780231211703
Format: Hardback
$165.95

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009015967
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Author: Matthew Thomas Miller
ISBN: 9780520426337
Format: Hardback
$157.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry...

Author: David Streitfeld
ISBN: 9780063234888
Format: Hardback
$55.00

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781316516690
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar Poetics

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar...

Author: Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Institut Universitaire de France)
ISBN: 9781009699419
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from Her Novels

The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from...

Author: Charlotte Brontë ,  Grace Milne Rae
ISBN: 9781851246748
Format: Hardback
$19.99

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures...

Author: Alexander Fyfe
ISBN: 9780813954950
Format: Paperback
$80.99

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Architecture as a Frail, Literary Object: Neurasthenia and the Works of Geoffrey Scott and Bernard Berenson

Architecture as a Frail, Literary Object: Neurasthenia...

Author: Mark Campbell
ISBN: 9781032381886
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book considers the motives, and ambitions of writing architectural history during the 1900s. In reference to...  Read More >>

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England...

Author: Claire M. L. Bourne (Assistant Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9780197903674
Format: Paperback
$58.95

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

Writings on Translation

Writings on Translation

Author: Abdessalam Benabdelali ,  Marouane Zakhir
ISBN: 9781803095103
Format: Hardback
$190.95

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  Read More >>

The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Colonialism in the Age of Franklin

The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Colonialism...

Author: Diego Pirillo
ISBN: 9781512829310
Format: Hardback
$116.00

Places Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world and investigates...  Read More >>

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures...

Author: Alexander Fyfe
ISBN: 9780813954943
Format: Hardback
$266.00

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha...

Author: Stephen C. E. Hopkins (Assistant Professor)
ISBN: 9781526175038
Format: Hardback
$194.99

A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England,...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the Anthropocene

The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the...

Author: Claire Cox
ISBN: 9783032165541
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book...  Read More >>

New Orleans: A Writer's City

New Orleans: A Writer's City

Author: T. R. Johnson (Tulane University, Louisiana)
ISBN: 9781009060301
Format: Paperback
$41.37

This book is the perfect starting point for those who want to read their way through New Orleans, for it orchestrates...  Read More >>

Citizenship in Mid-Century British Literature: War, Statehood, Extinction

Citizenship in Mid-Century British Literature: War,...

Author: Allan Hepburn (James McGill Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, Department of English, James McGill Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, Department of English, McGill University)
ISBN: 9780198987642
Format: Hardback
$191.95

In Britain, the parameters of citizenship and its reciprocal relations shifted dramatically during and after the...  Read More >>

Arab Nationalism, Decolonization and the Making of a Transregional Literature

Arab Nationalism, Decolonization and the Making of a...

Author: Anne-Marie McManus (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)
ISBN: 9781009575294
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is...  Read More >>

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