Literary studies: general books

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Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory...

Author: Lorna Burns
ISBN: 9781032626635
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory offers a detailed exploration of the debates, theories, texts,...  Read More >>

Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary...

Author: Jürg Glauser ,  Pernille Hermann
ISBN: 9783112256817
Format: Paperback
$153.09

Memory Studies has increasingly provided new perspectives on Nordic culture, and building on this momentum, this...  Read More >>

Flaubert: La quête incessante de la perfection

Flaubert: La quête incessante de la perfection

Author: Buraq
ISBN: 9798235326781
Format: Paperback
$116.13

Destiné aux chercheurs, étudiants et bibliophiles, cet ouvrage de la collection Encre et identité propose une synthèse...  Read More >>

Colette

Colette

Author: Julia Kristeva ,  Jane Marie Todd
ISBN: 9780231223911
Format: Paperback
$41.95

The final volume of Julia Kristeva’s trilogy on “female genius,” Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work...  Read More >>

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational Justice

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational...

Author: Stacey Margolis (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Utah)
ISBN: 9780197839584
Format: Hardback
$194.95

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and...

Author: Julie Stone Peters (H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780197903957
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship

Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship...

Author: Sari Altschuler
ISBN: 9781512829518
Format: Hardback
$104.00

A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil...  Read More >>

Tree-Becoming: Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's Stage

Tree-Becoming: Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's...

Author: Shannon Kelley
ISBN: 9781501787300
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification...  Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Snail

Introducing the Medieval Snail

Author: Julia Pineau
ISBN: 9781837723720
Format: Paperback
$34.99

When one thinks about medieval animals, snails rarely come to mind. Just as history has long had its biases, so...  Read More >>

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early...

Author: Katherine Schaap Williams
ISBN: 9781501786846
Format: Paperback
$87.99

""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Post-War US Poetry

The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Post-War US...

Author: Tymek Woodham (University College London, UK.)
ISBN: 9781350417229
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic...  Read More >>

Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary Fiction

Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary...

Author: Dr Daniel Cook (University of Dundee, UK) ,  Daniel Cook (University of Dundee UK)
ISBN: 9781350501959
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings,...  Read More >>

Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic Pastoralism

Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic...

Author: Matthew J. C. Cella
ISBN: 9781666965124
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of the relationships between American rurality, conceptions of wellness and civic “fitness,” and...  Read More >>

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval...

Author: Caleb D. Molstad
ISBN: 9781666979701
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An examination of vernacular authors' expression of religious experience and theology through metaphors of food...  Read More >>

Japanese Forms in American Poetry: Beyond Haiku

Japanese Forms in American Poetry: Beyond Haiku

Author: Ce Rosenow
ISBN: 9781666964226
Format: Hardback
$130.00

An analysis of haiku-related poetic forms that traces their histories and analyzes current trends, while arguing...  Read More >>

Sexual Violence in Comics: The Ethics of Visualizing Trauma

Sexual Violence in Comics: The Ethics of Visualizing...

Author: Lee Okan
ISBN: 9781666929157
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An examination of how artists use comics to challenge dominant portrayals and reclaim narrative control, positioning...  Read More >>

Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s Autofiction: “We Stand up and We Split”

Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s...

Author: Michèle Bacholle
ISBN: 9781666926965
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A close look into systemic violence against women in French society through various forms of rebellion, both real...  Read More >>

Romantic Citizenship and the Transatlantic World: Bordering on British

Romantic Citizenship and the Transatlantic World: Bordering...

Author: Alison Cotti-Lowell
ISBN: 9781666972986
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An examination of evolving ideas about British citizenship in Romantic fiction in the proto-bureaucratic conditions...  Read More >>

Disability in Contemporary American Poetry: Radical Accessibility

Disability in Contemporary American Poetry: Radical...

Author: Declan Gould (Temple University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350456457
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Looking at experimental disability poetry, this book shows how poets from the 1960s to the present develop disability-informed...  Read More >>

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four...

Author: Natalia I. Petrovskaia
ISBN: 9781837723355
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi....  Read More >>

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