Literary studies: general books

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An Introduction to Middle English Lyrics

An Introduction to Middle English Lyrics

Author: William A. Quinn
ISBN: 9780813079431
Format: Hardback
$208.00

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City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi

City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular...

Author: Nathan L. M. Tabor
ISBN: 9781469690216
Format: Hardback
$229.00

For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushāʿirahs, literary competitions for...  Read More >>

„Ungeborene Gespräche“: Poetische Zitierkunst in Arno Schmidts Dialogfragment „Julia, oder die Gemälde“

„Ungeborene Gespräche“: Poetische Zitierkunst in Arno...

Author: Jochen Hengst
ISBN: 9783662715079
Format: Paperback
$224.37

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Space, Affect, Memory: Literary Geographies in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Comparison

Space, Affect, Memory: Literary Geographies in Transnational...

Author: Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza ,  Tomás Espino Barrera
ISBN: 9781800089242
Format: Hardback
$129.38

An interdisciplinary exploration of the memorial and affective meanings of space in modern and contemporary literature....  Read More >>

Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area

Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in...

Author: Ana Patricia Rodríguez
ISBN: 9780816546428
Format: Paperback
$79.20

""Avocado Dreams tells the story of how and why Salvadorans migrated to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and...  Read More >>

Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk

Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour...

Author: Fiona Macintosh ,  David Ricks
ISBN: 9781032585086
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature: Three Volume Set Volume I A-F Volume II G-P Volume III Q-Z

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean...

Author: Professor Gordon Williams
ISBN: 9780485113938
Format: Hardback
$2692.80

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws...  Read More >>

Gendertrash From Hell: The First Print Collection of the Zine That Changed Everything

Gendertrash From Hell: The First Print Collection of...

Author: Mirha-Soleil Ross ,  Trish Salah
ISBN: 9781964322087
Format: Paperback
$73.79

A long-lost zine reveals the secret history of contemporary transgender culture ""A breathtaking archive of our...  Read More >>

Maritime Relations: Life, Labour and Literature at the Water's Edge, 1850–1914

Maritime Relations: Life, Labour and Literature at the...

Author: Emily Cuming (Liverpool John Moores University)
ISBN: 9781009569538
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Exploring representations of ordinary sailors, their families and the sea in Britain's long nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism

Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism

Author: Anca Parvulescu (Washington University, St Louis)
ISBN: 9781009599795
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Anca Parvulescu's prehistory of facial recognition technologies retells the story of literary modernism through...  Read More >>

Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography

Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography

Author: John Schad
ISBN: 9781800089693
Format: Paperback
$77.63

The first-ever exploration of the curious life of Stefan Rafael Benjamin, Walter Benjamin's only son. Walter Benjamin's...  Read More >>

ALT 43: Afrifuturism

ALT 43: Afrifuturism

Author: Ernest Ernest Cole (Customer) ,  Ernest N Emenyonu (Author)
ISBN: 9781847014184
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This issue of ALT provides content narratives, critical frames and theoretical constructs to read and critique writings...  Read More >>

Contemporary International Literature and the Shoah

Contemporary International Literature and the Shoah...

Author: Sławomir Jacek Żurek ,  Sławomir Jacek Żurek
ISBN: 9783631919941
Format: Hardback
$119.03

This book includes analyses of twenty-first century literature about the Holocaust. The international scholars highlight...  Read More >>

Letters to Sophia: The Afterlives of Hester Thrale

Letters to Sophia: The Afterlives of Hester Thrale

Author: Kate Chisholm ,  Loren Rothschild
ISBN: 9781836360131
Format: Hardback
$43.86

The story of Hester Thrale’s life after her second marriage to Gabriel Piozzi in 1784, told through the letters...  Read More >>

Narratives of Resilience / Narrative der Resilienz

Narratives of Resilience / Narrative der Resilienz

Author: Kate Rigby ,  Evi Zemanek
ISBN: 9783662710784
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Dieser Open Access-Band lotet aus, wie die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften die Resilienzforschung erweitern...  Read More >>

Old England, New England, and the Civil War: How a Clash of Cultures Ignited a Global Campaign for Racial Equality and Civil Rights

Old England, New England, and the Civil War: How a Clash...

Author: Len Gougeon
ISBN: 9798855802115
Format: Paperback
$100.19

The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great...  Read More >>

Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography

Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography

Author: John Schad
ISBN: 9781800089679
Format: Hardback
$129.38

The first-ever exploration of the curious life of Stefan Rafael Benjamin, Walter Benjamin's only son. Walter Benjamin's...  Read More >>

Researching Translator's Functional Style: A Corpus-Assisted Approach

Researching Translator's Functional Style: A Corpus-Assisted...

Author: Kan Wu ,  Defeng Li
ISBN: 9789819512201
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book introduces an innovative approach to studying translator style through the lens of functional linguistics...  Read More >>

Doolin De Mayence: ""Âmes Sensibles S'Abstenir""

Doolin De Mayence: ""Âmes Sensibles S'Abstenir""

Author: Thomas Sicard
ISBN: 9798232782634
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Interdit aux âmes sensibles... Vous pensez connaître les contes du Moyen Âge ? Préparez-vous à être secoué... Doolin...  Read More >>

Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces

Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory...

Author: Bidisha Banerjee ,  Judith Misrahi-Barak
ISBN: 9781041024378
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This volume engages with migrant deaths from a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, raising questions...  Read More >>

Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Maternality in US Literature

Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Maternality in US Literature...

Author: Mary Jo Bona (Stony Brook University)
ISBN: 9798855801996
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological...  Read More >>

Unlimited Eligibility?: Inclusive Democracy and the American Lyric

Unlimited Eligibility?: Inclusive Democracy and the...

Author: Ryan Cull
ISBN: 9798855802238
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Rewrites the dominant narrative of the political work of lyric poetry in the United States since the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Exploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature: Echoes of Laughter in the Capitalocene

Exploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature: Echoes...

Author: Mohammad Rahmatullah ,  Tanu Gupta
ISBN: 9783032017758
Format: Paperback
$181.10

In this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie,...  Read More >>

Contemporary Science Fiction and The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Sacrifice and Narrative Coherence

Contemporary Science Fiction and The Many-Worlds Interpretation...

Author: Jonathan P. Lewis
ISBN: 9781666956863
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This book seeks to create a new means of interrogating the direction in which contemporary science fiction is progressing....  Read More >>

Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism

Author: Dr. Thomas Waller (University College Dublin, Ireland) ,  Dr Sinan Richards (University College Cork, Ireland)
ISBN: 9798765114896
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores the impact of modernist literature and art on the writing and thought of Jacques Lacan, emphasizing the...  Read More >>

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