Literary studies: general books

313182 books were found.

Baltic Horror in film, gaming and literature

Baltic Horror in film, gaming and literature

Author: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
ISBN: 9781837723607
Format: Hardback
$175.00

The Baltic regionarguablysawthe birth of horror cinema when Germany produced its cycle of silent horror films. However,it...  Read More >>

Marginalia On Casanova

Marginalia On Casanova

Author: Miklós Szentkuthy ,  Tim Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781967751273
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

J.R.R. Tolkien and G.B. Smith: With Wind in our Ears

J.R.R. Tolkien and G.B. Smith: With Wind in our Ears...

Author: Giuseppe Pezzini
ISBN: 9783032001979
Format: Hardback
$310.47

The volume explores this relationship from biographical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, focusing on the...  Read More >>

Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History

Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History

Author: Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009851893
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Simon Goldhill recounts the untold history of Cambridge's gay academic community and the remarkable impact that...  Read More >>

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All...

Author: Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson
ISBN: 9781399426305
Format: Paperback
$32.99

This revelatory biography of Robert Graves re-examines his position as a major First World War poet, as well as...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

Author: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University, Boston) ,  Kristina Huang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009280600
Format: Paperback
$64.69

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

Murder in Motion: A Sociological Analysis of the City, Transit, and Identity in the Modernist and Postmodernist Thriller

Murder in Motion: A Sociological Analysis of the City,...

Author: Michael Mirabile
ISBN: 9781032789293
Format: Paperback
$103.47

This book examines the fictional category of thriller through the lens of city life using exegetical tools drawn...  Read More >>

The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England

The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England

Author: Nicholas Jenkins
ISBN: 9780674303522
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century’s...  Read More >>

Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

Author: Ariel Stilerman
ISBN: 9780674303416
Format: Hardback
$86.95

In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese...  Read More >>

Selected Short Stories

Selected Short Stories

Author: Rabindranath Tagore ,  Sumit Chakrabarti (Presidency University)
ISBN: 9780192865816
Format: Paperback
$25.95

A collection of new translations of short stories by Bengali poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)....  Read More >>

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

Author: Charles Ignatius Sancho ,  Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University - Boston)
ISBN: 9780192869609
Format: Paperback
$23.95

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African provides an unequalled portrait of the everyday life of a Black...  Read More >>

Autofiction: Narrating the Sensitive

Autofiction: Narrating the Sensitive

Author: Larissa Muraveva
ISBN: 9783112228517
Format: Hardback
$71.47

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Translating Modernity: (Trans)formations of a Concept

Translating Modernity: (Trans)formations of a Concept...

Author: Salah Basalamah ,  Abdel-Wahab Khalifa
ISBN: 9783031927805
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This edited book examines three main understandings of the concept of modernity in relation to translation: “modernity...  Read More >>

Marginalia On Casanova

Marginalia On Casanova

Author: Miklós Szentkuthy ,  Tim Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781967751693
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

Petrarch’s Africa and Its Afterlives: Race, Nation, and Empire

Petrarch’s Africa and Its Afterlives: Race, Nation,...

Author: Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading, UK)
ISBN: 9781350330795
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>

Terence: Eunuchus

Terence: Eunuchus

Author: Dr. Gesine Manuwald (Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350344051
Format: Hardback
$140.00

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

The Latin Poems of Christian Wedsted: A Moravian in 18th-Century Pennsylvania

The Latin Poems of Christian Wedsted: A Moravian in...

Author: Aaron Palmore (Loyola University Maryland, USA) ,  Gesine Manuwald (University College London UK)
ISBN: 9781350261440
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An edition, with translation and commentary, of the transatlantic Latin poetry of Christian Wedsted (1727-1757)....  Read More >>

Martin Crimp: The Writer and the Work

Martin Crimp: The Writer and the Work

Author: Vicky Angelaki ,  Élisabeth Angel-Perez
ISBN: 9781805967965
Format: Hardback
$422.40

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The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

Author: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University, Boston) ,  Kristina Huang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009280648
Format: Hardback
$207.00

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

The Uncanny as a Method in Contemporary Irish Literature

The Uncanny as a Method in Contemporary Irish Literature...

Author: Beatrice Masi
ISBN: 9781041155928
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This volume examines how post-Celtic Tiger Irish literature responds to overlapping economic and environmental crises...  Read More >>

Murder in Motion: A Sociological Analysis of the City, Transit, and Identity in the Modernist and Postmodernist Thriller

Murder in Motion: A Sociological Analysis of the City,...

Author: Michael Mirabile
ISBN: 9781032789330
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book examines the fictional category of thriller through the lens of city life using exegetical tools drawn...  Read More >>

Granville Bantock and the Orchestral Refiguring of Literature

Granville Bantock and the Orchestral Refiguring of Literature...

Author: Michael Allis
ISBN: 9781837651740
Format: Hardback
$501.60

Illuminates Bantock's experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature,...  Read More >>

Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Infrastructures, Literatures, Applications

Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First...

Author: Roslyn Joy Irving (University Of Liverpool, Uk; Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany; Xjtlu, China) ,  Rachael Sumner (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
ISBN: 9781041099901
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Infrastructures, Literatures, Applications concerns...  Read More >>

Einführung in Die Editionswissenschaft

Einführung in Die Editionswissenschaft

Author: Ursula Kocher
ISBN: 9783110191547
Format: Paperback
$97.68

Editorial studies: a fundamental intermedial discipline for all subjects which require media of various kinds to...  Read More >>

Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation

Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation

Author: Simon Armitage (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9781631496684
Format: Hardback
$66.00

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