Literary studies: general books

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Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th-17th Centuries

Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature,...

Author: Robin O'Bryan
ISBN: 9781041179986
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art, architecture, and literature...  Read More >>

Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque: Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque:...

Author: Emily Kuffner
ISBN: 9781041179252
Format: Paperback
$119.00

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Petrarch and Sixteenth-Century Italian Portraiture

Petrarch and Sixteenth-Century Italian Portraiture

Author: Ilaria Bernocchi ,  Nicolò Morelli
ISBN: 9781041184119
Format: Paperback
$119.00

The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch’s legacy informed the relationship...  Read More >>

The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture: From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn

The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary...

Author: Gary Waller
ISBN: 9781041187844
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This is a contribution to the revival of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English that began...  Read More >>

Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, 1378-1433: Friends of Friends in the Kingdom of Hungary

Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence,...

Author: Katalin Prajda
ISBN: 9781041183471
Format: Paperback
$119.00

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Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain: From Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote

Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern...

Author: Stacey Triplette
ISBN: 9781041176909
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This book analyses many versions of the romance from Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and England and tells a new...  Read More >>

Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900

Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular...

Author: Patricia Fumerton ,  Pavel Kosek
ISBN: 9781041177883
Format: Paperback
$119.00

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Authorizing Early Modern European Women: From Biography to Biofiction

Authorizing Early Modern European Women: From Biography...

Author: James Fitzmaurice ,  Naomi Miller
ISBN: 9781041176008
Format: Paperback
$119.00

The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and...  Read More >>

Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France

Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime...

Author: Aleksandra Nicole Pfau
ISBN: 9781041182696
Format: Paperback
$119.00

The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. Medieval Communities and...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Rebecca Parks
ISBN: 9781535886550
Format: Hardback
$1496.88

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Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England

Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early...

Author: Nandini Das ,  João Vicente Melo
ISBN: 9781041181781
Format: Paperback
$119.00

What did it mean to be a stranger in 16th and 17th century England? This text analyses a selection of terms that...  Read More >>

The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin

The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin

Author: Friedrich Hölderlin ,  Charlie Louth (The Queen's College)
ISBN: 9798855804171
Format: Hardback
$369.60

The first English translation of Hölderlin's complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes.  Read More >>

Poetry and the Sense of Reversal: Unsettling the Limits

Poetry and the Sense of Reversal: Unsettling the Limits...

Author: William D. Melaney
ISBN: 9783032071231
Format: Hardback
$343.17

How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary...  Read More >>

Material Cultures of Archiving: An Introduction to a Global and Historical Practice

Material Cultures of Archiving: An Introduction to a...

Author: Markus Friedrich
ISBN: 9783111655475
Format: Hardback
$235.46

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Money & Politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht

Money & Politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht

Author: Bernard F. Dukore
ISBN: 9781041147114
Format: Hardback
$232.85

First published in 1980, each of the three playwrights discussed in this book was a radical in his own way, concerned...  Read More >>

Violence and Memory in Zimbabwean Literature: Armed Peace in the Postcolonial Era

Violence and Memory in Zimbabwean Literature: Armed...

Author: Tanaka Chidora
ISBN: 9781032749556
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book investigates how Zimbabwean literary texts subvert state-sponsored amnesia when it comes to the many forms...  Read More >>

Samuel Johnson: A Critical Study

Samuel Johnson: A Critical Study

Author: J.P. Hardy
ISBN: 9781041192626
Format: Hardback
$245.79

In Samuel Johnson (1979), John Hardy examines Johnson’s major works, emphasizing the connection between his spiritual...  Read More >>

Restoration Literature: Critical Approaches

Restoration Literature: Critical Approaches

Author: Harold Love
ISBN: 9781041194125
Format: Hardback
$217.32

Originally published in 1972, Restoration Literature is a landmark in the study of seventeenth-century English literature....  Read More >>

Bilder Der Bildung: Griechisch - Deutsch

Bilder Der Bildung: Griechisch - Deutsch

Author: Lukian ,  Peter Von Möllendorff
ISBN: 9783110704129
Format: Hardback
$182.13

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German...  Read More >>

Speech, Narrative, and Authority in Herodotus’ Histories

Speech, Narrative, and Authority in Herodotus’ Histories...

Author: Mathieu P. de Bakker
ISBN: 9789004749535
Format: Hardback
$430.32

This book argues that Herodotus establishes his authority as a historiographer by incorporating a diverse range...  Read More >>

Kafka: His Mind and Art

Kafka: His Mind and Art

Author: Charles Neider
ISBN: 9781032610962
Format: Paperback
$77.60

First published in 1949, Kafka: His Mind and Art presents an extended analysis of the Kafka literature, with emphasis...  Read More >>

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