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Self-Haunting: Gnosticism, Romanticism, Kierkegaard, Beckett and Ashbery

Self-Haunting: Gnosticism, Romanticism, Kierkegaard,...
Author: Laura Quinney ISBN: 9781839999086 Format: Hardback	$160.00
A study in the literature of selfhood across time, this book analyzes how the Gnostics, the Romantics, Kierkegaard,... Read More >>

Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom, 625–786

Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom, 625–786...
Author: Peter Darby ISBN: 9781526187772 Format: Hardback	$195.00
Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers a pioneering... Read More >>

A History of Goblins

A History of Goblins
Author: Matt King ISBN: 9783032010629 Format: Paperback	$64.66
This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted... Read More >>

Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography

Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography
Author: Gary Scharnhorst ISBN: 9780826369161 Format: Paperback	$69.99
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Reading with Peter Brooks

Reading with Peter Brooks
Author: Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, University College London) ISBN: 9781399538381 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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Virginia Woolf and Motherhood

Virginia Woolf and Motherhood
Author: Charlotte Taylor Suppé ISBN: 9781399520928 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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New Literary Voices of the Moroccan Diaspora: Republic of Cousins

New Literary Voices of the Moroccan Diaspora: Republic...
Author: Ieme van der Poel ISBN: 9781805966302 Format: Paperback	$77.60
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David Peace

David Peace
Author: Katy Shaw ISBN: 9781805967347 Format: Paperback	$56.90
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Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange

Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: From the Suppressed...
Author: Jonathan Ezra Goldman (New York Institute of Technology) ISBN: 9798855806212 Format: Paperback	$79.07
Offers a panoramic view of New York City in the 1920s, uncovering hidden histories from within entertainment, politics,... Read More >>

Migrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America: 1980-2020

Migrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America:...
Author: Laura Gallon ISBN: 9783032155856 Format: Hardback	$258.72
This book explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including... Read More >>

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913–1941

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction,...
Author: James Reichert ISBN: 9798880700547 Format: Paperback	$79.20
Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as... Read More >>

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and...
Author: Hadley Suter ISBN: 9780813955124 Format: Paperback	$68.99
How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there... Read More >>

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum...
Author: Allison S. Curseen ISBN: 9781469694207 Format: Paperback	$86.99
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I Can't Believe I'm Old: Essays on Aging

I Can't Believe I'm Old: Essays on Aging
Author: Janet Torge ISBN: 9781773901954 Format: Paperback	$71.15
I Can't Believe I?m Old is a collection of essays by Janet Torge as she stumbles and is dragged into old age. She... Read More >>

Lyrics of Life: Sa'di on Love, Cosmopolitanism and Care of the Self

Lyrics of Life: Sa'di on Love, Cosmopolitanism and Care...
Author: Fatemeh Keshavarz (Roshan Chair of Persian Studies and Director of Roshan Institute, University of Maryland) ISBN: 9781399565103 Format: Paperback	$44.99
A creative and analytical study of important facets of classical Persian poetry. Read More >>

Studying Modern Arabic Literature: Mustafa Badawi, Scholar and Critic

Studying Modern Arabic Literature: Mustafa Badawi, Scholar...
Author: Roger Allen (Professor Emeritus of Arabic & Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania) , Robin Ostle (Emeritus Research Fellow in Modern Arabic, St John's College, Oxford) ISBN: 9781399565097 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Shows how the study of modern Arabic literature was transformed by Mustafa Badawi. Read More >>

Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Culture

Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Culture...
Author: Valerie Anishchenkova (Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture; Director of Arabic Programs, University of Maryland) ISBN: 9781399564823 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Explores developments in Arab autobiography over the last 40 years. Read More >>

The Arab Nahdah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement

The Arab Nahdah: The Making of the Intellectual and...
Author: Abdulrazzak Patel (Research Fellow, Oriental Institute) ISBN: 9781399564861 Format: Paperback	$57.99
Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards. Read More >>

The Iraqi Novel: Key Writers, Key Texts

The Iraqi Novel: Key Writers, Key Texts
Author: Fabio Caiani (lecturer, University of St Andrews) , Catherine Cobham (Lecturer, University of St Andrews) ISBN: 9781399565523 Format: Paperback	$57.99
Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society.... Read More >>

Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008

Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008...
Author: Hoda Elsadda (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cairo University) ISBN: 9781399564984 Format: Paperback	$57.99
Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national'... Read More >>

The Reader in al-Jahiz: The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master

The Reader in al-Jahiz: The Epistolary Rhetoric of an...
Author: Thomas Hefter (Lecturer of Arabic, Princeton University) ISBN: 9781399565080 Format: Paperback	$57.99
Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jahiz in his letters. Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality...
Author: Alberto Sosa-Cabanas , Jossianna Arroyo ISBN: 9781978846258 Format: Paperback	$74.80
El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's... Read More >>

Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality and Rewriting the Self

Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality...
Author: Angela L. Willis ISBN: 9781683406242 Format: Paperback	$80.99
This book offers a fresh reading of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, showing how the Cuban writer reimagined literary... Read More >>

Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market

Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market...
Author: Sean Grass (Professor of English, University of Florida) ISBN: 9781399506823 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience...
Author: Patrice D. Rankine ISBN: 9781602584532 Format: Paperback	$118.77
Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body... Read More >>

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