Literary studies: general books

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The Story's not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives

The Story's not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood...

Author: Victoria Aarons ,  Leela Corman
ISBN: 9780814349120
Format: Hardback
$215.00

The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars...  Read More >>

East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press

East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press...

Author: Vivi Lachs ,  Barry Smerin
ISBN: 9780814351352
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Detailed historical context, biographies of each writer, and evocative illustrations support this meaningful collection...  Read More >>

Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature

Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern...

Author: Ira Halpern
ISBN: 9781625349125
Format: Hardback
$185.90

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare system In the United States,...  Read More >>

Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity: Classics, Imagism, and the Great War

Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity: Classics, Imagism,...

Author: Elizabeth Vandiver (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Emerita, Whitman College)
ISBN: 9780198958598
Format: Hardback
$323.44

This book examines the work of Richard Aldington, a poet, war poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator...  Read More >>

Eve

Eve

Author: Charles Peguy ,  Curran Kathleen Sweeney
ISBN: 9781587312106
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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Literary Translation Lifecycles: The Vital Networks Behind the Circulation of Dutch Literature

Literary Translation Lifecycles: The Vital Networks...

Author: Jack McMartin ,  Paola Gentile
ISBN: 9781032638737
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes

Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between...

Author: José María Pérez Fernández (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Granada)
ISBN: 9780197902202
Format: Paperback
$44.95

Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues...  Read More >>

Hip-Hop and American Culture

Hip-Hop and American Culture

Author: Rob Turner (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009714761
Format: Paperback
$80.21

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Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement: Poetics of Possibility

Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement: Poetics...

Author: Dr Uhuru Portia Phalafala, C (D)
ISBN: 9781847014672
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and...  Read More >>

Agent Eve(s) in Moroccan Postcolonial Literature

Agent Eve(s) in Moroccan Postcolonial Literature

Author: Fatimaezzahra Abid
ISBN: 9781041043980
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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Epistemology and Secrecy in John Banville’s Crime Fiction

Epistemology and Secrecy in John Banville’s Crime Fiction...

Author: Joakim Wrethed
ISBN: 9783032164643
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book is a phenomenological study of the crime fiction of Benjamin Black and John Banville, including novels...  Read More >>

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9780785848790
Format: Hardback
$35.00

The perfect gift for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is an elegant edition boasting...  Read More >>

The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume V: Divorce Tracts

The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume V: Divorce...

Author: Sharon Achinstein (Sir William Osler Professor of English, Sir William Osler Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9780199234493
Format: Hardback
$417.95

The four prose tracts Milton published from 1643 to 1645 on divorce constitute an underappreciated body of work...  Read More >>

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300–1579

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric...

Author: Holton
ISBN: 9780192873545
Format: Hardback
$202.95

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the Soul in Early Enlightenment England

Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the...

Author: Michelle Pfeffer (Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198989202
Format: Hardback
$246.95

Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and...  Read More >>

Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes

Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between...

Author: José María Pérez Fernández (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Granada)
ISBN: 9780192865946
Format: Hardback
$218.95

Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues...  Read More >>

Woolf, Bergson and the Sciences: Modernist Animals

Woolf, Bergson and the Sciences: Modernist Animals

Author: Candice Kent
ISBN: 9781041049890
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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Spenser and the Filidh in Early Modern Ireland

Spenser and the Filidh in Early Modern Ireland

Author: Dr Evan Bourke ,  Dr Philip Mac a’ Ghoill
ISBN: 9781843847083
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Uncovers a vibrant literary culture often overlooked by colonial historiography and Anglocentric critical traditions....  Read More >>

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in...

Author: Donald M. Shaffer
ISBN: 9781496855985
Format: Paperback
$69.99

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels  Read More >>

Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental Harm in the Global South

Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental...

Author: Rebecca Oh
ISBN: 9781531512651
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms...  Read More >>

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

Author: Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine ,  Conor Bracken
ISBN: 9780813954714
Format: Paperback
$56.99

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the...

Author: Joseph Boone
ISBN: 9780231222204
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

Commitment Ingrained in Loss: Subjugation, Dislocation and Trauma in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

Commitment Ingrained in Loss: Subjugation, Dislocation...

Author: Sidharth Tanmoy Dash ,  Gurudev Meher
ISBN: 9781645608363
Format: Paperback
$47.52

Commitment Ingrained in Loss: Subjugation, Dislocation and Trauma in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro offers a profound...  Read More >>

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