Literary studies: general books

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David Jones, Disability and Modernist Form: Corporeality, Woundedness and Embodiment in the 'Makings'

David Jones, Disability and Modernist Form: Corporeality,...

Author: Colette Nic Aodha (independent researcher, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350454507
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Employing a fresh theoretical approach to David Jones' work, this is the first book to use disability studies as...  Read More >>

James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures

James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures...

Author: Niels Caul (Champlain College, Ireland) ,  Niels Caul (Champlain College, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350528550
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Putting Joyce back into dialogue with other Irish writers of his generation, this book shows that his experiments...  Read More >>

Looking at Hippolytus

Looking at Hippolytus

Author: David Stuttard (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350429024
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examination of Euripides' Hippolytus by leading academics which is accompanied by an English translation by an expert...  Read More >>

Aristophanes and the Current Moment: The Politics of Comedy

Aristophanes and the Current Moment: The Politics of...

Author: Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Samuel Gartland (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781350475083
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Examines the comedies of Aristophanes from the perspective of the playwright as a political ‘correspondent’ rather...  Read More >>

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and...

Author: Pantelis Michelakis (Associate Professor of Classical Reception and Fellow of St Hilda's College, Associate Professor of Classical Reception and Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198844105
Format: Hardback
$234.95

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential,...  Read More >>

Science Fiction Language in Action: Scientologese

Science Fiction Language in Action: Scientologese

Author: Jennifer Kelso Farrell
ISBN: 9781666949971
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Examining the works of science fiction authors such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, and Samuel...  Read More >>

Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity

Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity

Author: Ligia Mihut
ISBN: 9780822967712
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Drawing on two years of ethnographic research mixed with archival work, Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinityexplores...  Read More >>

Cyrillic Manuscripts: From Medieval to Digital

Cyrillic Manuscripts: From Medieval to Digital

Author: Mihai Dragnea ,  Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko
ISBN: 9783034350907
Format: Hardback
$191.48

This volume contains studies of Cyrillic manuscripts and early printed editions from c. 900-1800. The authors discuss...  Read More >>

Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Author: Jonathan Howard
ISBN: 9781478032618
Format: Paperback
$78.99

Jonathan Howard undertakes a black ecocritical study of the ""deep"" in African American literature to theorize...  Read More >>

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode...

Author: Michelle Anya Anjirbag ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814351086
Format: Paperback
$85.99

Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths...  Read More >>

Literature and Epistemic Injustice: Power and Resistance in the Contemporary Novel

Literature and Epistemic Injustice: Power and Resistance...

Author: Sarah Colvin (Jesus College Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781032649245
Format: Hardback
$305.00

A vital resource for anyone interested in literature and politics, this is the first in-depth study of epistemic...  Read More >>

Le Fantastique dans la littérature francophone mauricienne

Le Fantastique dans la littérature francophone mauricienne...

Author: Sonia Dosoruth
ISBN: 9789004746435
Format: Hardback
$282.48

avec la collaboration de Bruno Cunniah, Katarzyna Gadomska, Zibya Issack et Neelam Pirbhai Cette étude a pour...  Read More >>

Consolations of Nature: Human-Nature Connections in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Consolations of Nature: Human-Nature Connections in...

Author: Šárka Bubíková ,  Bożena Kucała
ISBN: 9789004744103
Format: Hardback
$282.48

This book makes a significant contribution to environmental humanities by analysing a range of early twentieth-...  Read More >>

Co-authorship. Collaboration, Multiple Authorship and the Melding of Minds in Literature, Arts and Sciences: Papers in Honour of Glenn W. Most

Co-authorship. Collaboration, Multiple Authorship and...

Author: Manuel Baumbach
ISBN: 9789004738577
Format: Hardback
$388.08

The volume discusses forms of co-authorship in literature, sciences and art from a historical, comparative, cross-cultural...  Read More >>

The Dynamic Quality of Late Greek Non-Christian Poetry: Studies in Minor Genres

The Dynamic Quality of Late Greek Non-Christian Poetry:...

Author: Krystyna Bartol ,  Jerzy Danielewicz
ISBN: 9789004748101
Format: Hardback
$282.48

The volume brings together studies on the concept of minor literary genres in late Greek non-Christian poetry and...  Read More >>

Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italy's Renaissance

Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italy's Renaissance

Author: Guylian Nemegeer
ISBN: 9783032053688
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book examines how Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) reimagined the Renaissance as a metaphor for Italy’s national...  Read More >>

An Intellectual Against Fascism: Selected Writings

An Intellectual Against Fascism: Selected Writings

Author: Piero Gobetti ,  Mimmo Cangiano
ISBN: 9781487560478
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book presents a comprehensive collection of Piero Gobetti's writings in English, featuring over thirty articles...  Read More >>

Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic: Expanding the Methods and Canon

Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic: Expanding the...

Author: Christopher Forstall ,  Berenice Verhelst
ISBN: 9789004746800
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This volume accompanies the DICES Database of Greek and Latin Epic Speech and presents exploratory and methodologically...  Read More >>

Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Author: Jonathan Howard
ISBN: 9781478029281
Format: Hardback
$289.00

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Textile Shakespeare

Textile Shakespeare

Author: Hester Lees-Jeffries
ISBN: 9780198861133
Format: Hardback
$70.95

Textile Shakespeare explores the centrality of textiles to life in early modern England. Cloth and fabric displayed...  Read More >>

Conrad of Hirsau’s Trees of Vices and Virtues: From De fructu carnis et spiritus to the Speculum virginum

Conrad of Hirsau’s Trees of Vices and Virtues: From...

Author: Cheryl Goggin
ISBN: 9789004741430
Format: Hardback
$472.56

Provides an edition and translation of the Trees of Vices and Virtues by Conrad of Hirsau (c.1070 – c.1150), as...  Read More >>

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