Literary studies: general books

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Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Author: Jonathan Howard
ISBN: 9781478032618
Format: Paperback
$78.99

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Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological Study

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological...

Author: Ármann Jakobsson
ISBN: 9783032111869
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

Textile Shakespeare

Textile Shakespeare

Author: Hester Lees-Jeffries
ISBN: 9780198861133
Format: Hardback
$70.95

Textile Shakespeare explores the centrality of textiles to life in early modern England. Cloth and fabric displayed...  Read More >>

Literature and Epistemic Injustice: Power and Resistance in the Contemporary Novel

Literature and Epistemic Injustice: Power and Resistance...

Author: Sarah Colvin (Jesus College Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781032649245
Format: Hardback
$305.00

A vital resource for anyone interested in literature and politics, this is the first in-depth study of epistemic...  Read More >>

An Intellectual Against Fascism: Selected Writings

An Intellectual Against Fascism: Selected Writings

Author: Piero Gobetti ,  Mimmo Cangiano
ISBN: 9781487560478
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italy's Renaissance

Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italy's Renaissance

Author: Guylian Nemegeer
ISBN: 9783032053688
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Popular Culture in South Asian Context

Popular Culture in South Asian Context

Author: Akshaya Kumar ,  Raj Thakur (Central University of Jammu, India)
ISBN: 9781032727455
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The volume examines popular sensibilities via textual, visual, performative, spatial, digital frames of inquiry...  Read More >>

Contemporary Somali Diasporic Literature: Ambivalent Belonging and Phobic Cosmopolitanism

Contemporary Somali Diasporic Literature: Ambivalent...

Author: Denish Odanga
ISBN: 9781041129608
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan...  Read More >>

The Satire of the New Black Renaissance: Open-Source Blackness

The Satire of the New Black Renaissance: Open-Source...

Author: Kamil Chrzczonowicz
ISBN: 9781032803081
Format: Hardback
$305.00

How do twenty-first-century Black satirists rewrite American ideas of race? This book plunges into the New Black...  Read More >>

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

Author: Dr Penny Bradshaw (Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Cumbria, UK)
ISBN: 9781350453340
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding...  Read More >>

Translating His-stories

Translating His-stories

Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca)
ISBN: 9781009673167
Format: Paperback
$46.58

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Postmigration and Postcolonialism / Postmigration et postcolonialisme: Comparative Perspectives on French- and German-Language Literatures and Music / Perspectives comparées sur les musiques et littératures franco- et germanophones

Postmigration and Postcolonialism / Postmigration et...

Author: Marion Coste ,  Martina Kopf
ISBN: 9783111590943
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Author: Tamara Hundorova ,  Tetiana Savchynska
ISBN: 9798897831340
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Voltaire and the Sirven affair (1762-1772)

Voltaire and the Sirven affair (1762-1772)

Author: John Renwick
ISBN: 9781836245292
Format: Paperback
$219.94

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Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish...

Author: Guy Woodward (Research Associate in the Department of English Studies, Research Associate in the Department of English Studies, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198973423
Format: Hardback
$218.95

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

Narrating Multiplicities in Motion: The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Anglophone Cultures

Narrating Multiplicities in Motion: The Transformative...

Author: Elena Ogliari ,  Anna Pasolini
ISBN: 9781032995359
Format: Hardback
$305.00

It brings together scholars from literature, linguistics, and media studies to explore how storytelling can confront...  Read More >>

Lessing and the Consequences

Lessing and the Consequences

Author: Robert Vellusig
ISBN: 9783662718728
Format: Hardback
$118.77

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The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long 1980s

The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Amy Burge (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Dr. Jodi McAlister (Deakin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9798765121702
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Offers a dedicated and detailed theorization and genre study of the ""bonkbuster,"" a phenomenally popular genre...  Read More >>

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics...

Author: Nick Katsiadas ,  Carl Sell
ISBN: 9781666971484
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, connecting Tolkien...  Read More >>

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture: Implicit Theology, Secular Spirituality, and Speculative Fiction

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture:...

Author: Karen Trimble Alliaume ,  Maryellen Davis Collett
ISBN: 9781666934854
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Employing theoretical lenses of implicit theology and secular spirituality, this book blurs the boundaries between...  Read More >>

The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750-1900

The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany,...

Author: Professor Mary Helen Dupree (Georgetown University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765158265
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Examines the practice of literary declamation in German literature and its place alongside print culture in the...  Read More >>

Translating His-stories

Translating His-stories

Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca)
ISBN: 9781009673174
Format: Hardback
$142.31

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment

Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the...

Author: Amitav Ghosh
ISBN: 9780226845326
Format: Hardback
$47.95

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Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and Segmentary Narrative

Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and...

Author: Natalie Swain (Acadia University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350407244
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examines Ovid’s Amores through a comics-based methodology to demonstrate how Latin elegy uses its segmented format...  Read More >>

The Epic Modernist Alfred Döblin: A Reader’s Guide to His Major Fiction in Six Excursions

The Epic Modernist Alfred Döblin: A Reader’s Guide to...

Author: David R Midgley
ISBN: 9781640142275
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Provides the English-speaking reader with a comprehensive guide to the fiction of Alfred Döblin, a major figure...  Read More >>

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