Literary studies: general books

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Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of...

Author: Umasankar Patra
ISBN: 9781032909103
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belongingargues that this negotiation takes place in and through...  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 >>

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Critique of a Sermon and Other Letters: Crisis sobre un sermón, Carta de sor Filotea (by Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz), Respuesta a sor Filotea

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Critique of a Sermon and...

Author: Alice Brooke
ISBN: 9781805965770
Format: Paperback
$153.09

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Out of this World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and Thought

Out of this World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French...

Author: Bruno Chaouat
ISBN: 9781805965763
Format: Paperback
$118.77

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Derek Mahon: A Retrospective

Derek Mahon: A Retrospective

Author: Nicholas Grene ,  Tom Walker
ISBN: 9781805966838
Format: Paperback
$131.97

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Rereading Chenjerai Hove: Rupture and Suture in Zimbabwean Literature

Rereading Chenjerai Hove: Rupture and Suture in Zimbabwean...

Author: Muchativugwa Liberty Hove
ISBN: 9781041239918
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book assesses the life and works of leading Zimbabwean poet and novelist, Chenjerai Hove. Proposing a reading...  Read More >>

Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Narratives

Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian...

Author: Chitra Sankaran
ISBN: 9781032597713
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This volume provides a timely contribution to the ongoing conversation on the agency of matter in environmental...  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 Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume Two

The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume Two

Author: Sir Brian Vickers, FBA ,  Dr Darren Freebury-Jones
ISBN: 9781843846956
Format: Hardback
$633.60

First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected...  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 >>

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis...

Author: Robert A. Kaster (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780198891925
Format: Hardback
$94.95

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

The Literary Agency of Medieval Women: Kunigund Niklasin and the Library of St. Catherine's in Nuremberg

The Literary Agency of Medieval Women: Kunigund Niklasin...

Author: Poor
ISBN: 9780198993636
Format: Hardback
$191.95

Sara S. Poor provides a welcome alternative to an understanding of religious women's agency as resistance or transgression,...  Read More >>

Studies in Medievalism XXXV: Medievalism in Theory and Politics

Studies in Medievalism XXXV: Medievalism in Theory and...

Author: Karl Fugelso (Author) ,  Professor Daniel T Kline
ISBN: 9781843847823
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Essays exploring the intersections of politics and theory through medievalism in film, literature, gaming, and political...  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 >>

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 >>

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 Little Book of Unicorns

The Little Book of Unicorns

Author: Juliette Wood
ISBN: 9781049805283
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Diving into their mythic lore and transformation, The Little Book of Unicorns reveals the allure and multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Author: Rita Filanti
ISBN: 9781526177063
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This study of Voltairine de Cleyre's transnational anarchism focuses on her work as pedagogue and translator to...  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 >>

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian...

Author: Martina Horáková
ISBN: 9781839990571
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians,...  Read More >>

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