Literary studies: general books

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Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migration: New Poetics and Perspectives

Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migration: New Poetics...

Author: Annamaria Bianco ,  Baian Rayhanova
ISBN: 9780755652549
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores various aspects of Arabic literature of migration published over the past three decades, focusing on the...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Author: Allan Hepburn (McGill University, Montréal)
ISBN: 9781009536004
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) ,  Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009500159
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing...

Author: Lane Glisson
ISBN: 9781666950519
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of variations on the theme of disappearance in contemporary women's writing  Read More >>

The Political Dimension of Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen Lawn

The Political Dimension of Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen...

Author: Germán Asensio Peral
ISBN: 9783032187970
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book meticulously analyzes Cruiskeen Lawn, a popular column published in The Irish Times by Irish writer Myles...  Read More >>

The Rossetti Legacy: Victorian Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite Art, and the Exploration of Self-Identity

The Rossetti Legacy: Victorian Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite...

Author: Charlotte Xiaoqian Cai
ISBN: 9781041198321
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This groundbreaking study reveals how the Rossetti siblings revolutionized Victorian conceptions of selfhood through...  Read More >>

Escaping the End of Times: Dreams in the Late Ming

Escaping the End of Times: Dreams in the Late Ming

Author: Brigid E. Vance
ISBN: 9789882373679
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Escaping the End of Times invites readers to explore the intricate relationships between dreams, politics, and the...  Read More >>

Engagements with Literary Gaming

Engagements with Literary Gaming

Author: Tison Pugh ,  Lynn Ramey
ISBN: 9781032865614
Format: Hardback
$401.06

How is literature like a game, and how are games like literature? Engagements with Literary Gaming examines the...  Read More >>

Translation as the Gaze: Conceptualizing the Sino-Western Encounter, 1839-1949

Translation as the Gaze: Conceptualizing the Sino-Western...

Author: Qilin Cao
ISBN: 9781041239635
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book centers on how translation is key to understanding the encounter between China and the West from 1839...  Read More >>

Memes and Meaning: Presence and Transcendence in Literature

Memes and Meaning: Presence and Transcendence in Literature...

Author: Patrycja Austin ,  Simon Perry
ISBN: 9781041192312
Format: Hardback
$144.87

Drawing from literature, philosophy, theology, and cultural critique, this short and accessible book challenges...  Read More >>

Resistance in the ‘Oppressor’s Tongue’: English-Language Welsh Writers and Spanish-Language Catalan Writers

Resistance in the ‘Oppressor’s Tongue’: English-Language...

Author: Catriona Coutts
ISBN: 9781837723423
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This volume presents acomparison of Welsh writing in English and Catalan writing inSpanish, andanalysesthe work...  Read More >>

Mentoring the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Mentoring the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature...

Author: Laura Blunsden
ISBN: 9783032160140
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal...  Read More >>

Philological Investigations: Studies in Early and Medieval China

Philological Investigations: Studies in Early and Medieval...

Author: Nicholas Morrow Williams ,  Timothy O'Neill
ISBN: 9789004744677
Format: Hardback
$340.56

Philological Investigations contains essays on diverse historical, literary, and cultural topics of importance to...  Read More >>

Sedulius’ Carmen Paschale: Verse Translation, Notes and Other Poems

Sedulius’ Carmen Paschale: Verse Translation, Notes...

Author: Patrick McBrine
ISBN: 9781041252719
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book offers the first verse translation of Sedulius’ 5th-century biblical epic, the Carmen paschale, a versification...  Read More >>

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Author: Sharon N. Tran
ISBN: 9781517919856
Format: Hardback
$270.00

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960

Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African...

Author: W. Lawrence Hogue
ISBN: 9781839997945
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

Author: Adam Plunkett
ISBN: 9781250420336
Format: Paperback
$42.00

Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and...  Read More >>

Censorship and the Irish Writer: Politics, Polemics, and the International Dialectic

Censorship and the Irish Writer: Politics, Polemics,...

Author: Brad Kent
ISBN: 9781487567613
Format: Hardback
$160.00

In recounting the fascinating history of how modern Irish writers politically, socially, and polemically organised...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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