Literary studies: general books

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The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise of Digital Community

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise...

Author: Al Filreis
ISBN: 9780231221597
Format: Paperback
$59.95

In The Classroom and the Crowd, Al Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary...  Read More >>

Yale French Studies, Number 146: Fabienne Kanor in Transgression

Yale French Studies, Number 146: Fabienne Kanor in Transgression...

Author: Gladys M. Francis
ISBN: 9780300281897
Format: Paperback
$124.95

A collection of interdisciplinary critical essays examining the political and aesthetic practices of Martinican...  Read More >>

What Nails It

What Nails It

Author: Greil Marcus
ISBN: 9780300285529
Format: Paperback
$20.95

From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art  Read More >>

Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature

Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian...

Author: Adriaan van Klinken (Associate Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780271100395
Format: Hardback
$173.00

""Explores how twenty-first century Nigerian novels engage with Christianity as a locally rooted aspect of postcolonial...  Read More >>

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise of Digital Community

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise...

Author: Al Filreis
ISBN: 9780231221580
Format: Hardback
$240.95

In The Classroom and the Crowd, Al Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary...  Read More >>

Nightmares of the National Imaginary: Surveillance and Sousveillance in Canadian Literature

Nightmares of the National Imaginary: Surveillance and...

Author: Tom Halford
ISBN: 9781487564124
Format: Hardback
$115.00

This book explores the importance of contemporary Canadian literature as a kind of nuance-making machine in a world...  Read More >>

Eileen O’Shaughnessy, in Her Own Words: The Complete Letters of George Orwell's Wife

Eileen O’Shaughnessy, in Her Own Words: The Complete...

Author: Angela Smith ,  Sylvia Topp
ISBN: 9783032033666
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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The Lost History of Roman Theatre

The Lost History of Roman Theatre

Author: T.P. Wiseman
ISBN: 9780691273235
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Investigating the origins of theatre in archaic Rome Theatre was an integral part of Roman civic, religious and...  Read More >>

Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond

Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato...

Author: Piero Boitani
ISBN: 9780691276144
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeus-and its major themes, creation and beauty-through the centuries...  Read More >>

Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary American Novel

Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary...

Author: Jamie Redgate
ISBN: 9783032083722
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book highlights the efforts of contemporary writers of ""meatfiction"" to balance postmodern innovation with...  Read More >>

The Letters of Dr Charles Burney: Volume VI: 1810–1814

The Letters of Dr Charles Burney: Volume VI: 1810–1814...

Author: Peter Sabor (Emeritus Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill University)
ISBN: 9780198738640
Format: Hardback
$439.95

This sixth volume of the Letters of Dr Charles Burney covers the years 1810-1814, when he died at the age of 88....  Read More >>

Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations

Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their...

Author: Melissa Schuh
ISBN: 9783032004109
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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Close Reading and Its Alternatives: An Essential Reader

Close Reading and Its Alternatives: An Essential Reader...

Author: Mun-Hou Lo
ISBN: 9781032775746
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Author: Thomas Hardy ,  Simon Gatrell (University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9781108475051
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Presenting the first-edition text of Far from the Madding Crowd for the first time since its 1874 publication, this...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives: An Essential Reader

Close Reading and Its Alternatives: An Essential Reader...

Author: Mun-Hou Lo
ISBN: 9781032775739
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

Geometries of Empathy: Modernism, Attention, and the Contemporary Novel

Geometries of Empathy: Modernism, Attention, and the...

Author: Ágota Márton (Lecturer in English, Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198983316
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Geometries of Empathy offers a new take on the contemporary Anglophone novel through the much-contested problem...  Read More >>

English Literature UGC NET JRF: Part 1, UNIT I, II, III, IV

English Literature UGC NET JRF: Part 1, UNIT I, II,...

Author: Abha Bhardwaj Sharma
ISBN: 9798901365175
Format: Paperback
$79.17

This UGC NET/JRF course material, compiled by Prof Abha Bhadwaj Sharma, is divided into three parts. Part 1 covers...  Read More >>

Fictions of God: English Renaissance Literature and the Invention of the Biblical Narrator

Fictions of God: English Renaissance Literature and...

Author: Raphael Magarik
ISBN: 9780226842233
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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Cotton Famine Poetry: Functions of Emotion in British and American Verse 1861–65

Cotton Famine Poetry: Functions of Emotion in British...

Author: Simon Rennie
ISBN: 9783032019622
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book represents the first substantial text examining the nature of Cotton Famine poetry, which responded to...  Read More >>

After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present

After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late...

Author: Maia Kotrosits
ISBN: 9781478032762
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Modeling a new way of writing the past while experiencing ourselves more fully in time, Maia Kotrosits offers a...  Read More >>

Introduction to the Attribution of Literature: The Re-Attribution of the British 18th and 19th Century Corpuses

Introduction to the Attribution of Literature: The Re-Attribution...

Author: Anna Faktorovich
ISBN: 9781032821115
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Introduction to the Attribution of Literature describes the first unbiased and accessible authorship attribution...  Read More >>

Reading T. S. Eliot: The Rose Garden and After (1930s–1950s)

Reading T. S. Eliot: The Rose Garden and After (1930s–1950s)...

Author: Dídac Llorens-Cubedo ,  Viorica Patea
ISBN: 9781032696782
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Eliot’s career was influenced by concrete historical and biographical circumstances who played a decisive role as...  Read More >>

Sensibility: An Introduction

Sensibility: An Introduction

Author: Janet Todd
ISBN: 9781032745503
Format: Paperback
$58.99

In Sensibility, originally published in 1986, Janet Todd charts the growth and decline of sentimental writing as...  Read More >>

Blind Lame and Paralyzed

Blind Lame and Paralyzed

Author: Alander Pulliam
ISBN: 9798232780814
Format: Paperback
$52.77

In ""Blind, Lame, and Paralyzed,"" author Alander Pulliam delves into the profound truths behind the spiritual and...  Read More >>

English Literature UGC NET JRF: Part 1, UNIT I, II, III, IV

English Literature UGC NET JRF: Part 1, UNIT I, II,...

Author: Abha Bhardwaj Sharma
ISBN: 9798901365182
Format: Hardback
$105.57

This UGC NET/JRF course material, compiled by Prof Abha Bhadwaj Sharma, is divided into three parts. Part 1 covers...  Read More >>

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