Literary studies: general books

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American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211819
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

The New Modernist Novel: Criticism and the Task of Reading

The New Modernist Novel: Criticism and the Task of Reading...

Author: Elizabeth Pender (Teacher at the Centre for English Teaching, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781474461498
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Considers relationships between modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new modernist fiction...  Read More >>

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees: Metaphors and Metonyms that Construct the Homeric Odyssey

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees: Metaphors and Metonyms...

Author: Aldo Bottino
ISBN: 9780674303294
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>

The Dreiser-Markham Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and Kyra Markham, 1913-1944

The Dreiser-Markham Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore...

Author: Keith Newlin
ISBN: 9781906113391
Format: Paperback
$184.77

These letters between Theodore Dreiser, pioneer of literary realism, and the actress and artist Kyra Markham (born...  Read More >>

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Author: Richard Barlow (Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University) ,  Paul Fagan (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University)
ISBN: 9781399529440
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish...

Author: Sarah Sharp (Lecturer in Scottish Literature, University of Aberdeen)
ISBN: 9781474483421
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>

Ibrahim (Bassa), Cleopatra (Erst- Und Zweitfassung): Teilband 1: Text

Ibrahim (Bassa), Cleopatra (Erst- Und Zweitfassung):...

Author: Lothar Mundt ,  Daniel Casper Lohenstein
ISBN: 9783110203776
Format: Hardback
$1422.96

Der schlesische Dichter Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683) gehört neben Gryphius zu den bedeutendsten Autoren...  Read More >>

Ibrahim (Bassa), Cleopatra (Erst- Und Zweitfassung): Teilband 2: Kommentar

Ibrahim (Bassa), Cleopatra (Erst- Und Zweitfassung):...

Author: Lothar Mundt ,  Daniel Casper Lohenstein
ISBN: 9783110204650
Format: Hardback
$752.40

Das Berliner Projekt ist die erste historisch-kritische, umfassend kommentierte Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Daniel...  Read More >>

Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah: The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah

Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah:...

Author: Josiah D. Peeler
ISBN: 9783161631986
Format: Paperback
$221.49

Der hebräische Text von Jeremia verwendet unpassende oder symmetrische Elemente, um Wortspiele zu erzeugen, die...  Read More >>

Eve

Eve

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

Eve de Charles Peguy. Ecrivain, poete et essayiste francais (1873-1914).  Read More >>

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Author: Benjamin A. Saltzman
ISBN: 9780226847221
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

Getting Started as a Literary Translator: Translated Literature and Publishing

Getting Started as a Literary Translator: Translated...

Author: Richard Mansell ,  Helen Vassallo
ISBN: 9781032901800
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Getting Started as a Literary Translator is an essential guide for aspiring translators navigating the professional...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Author: Marissa Nicosia
ISBN: 9781032043999
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils...  Read More >>

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature...

Author: Daniel Dufournaud (Assistant Professor, University of Macau)
ISBN: 9781399554466
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives,...

Author: Louise Benson James (Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781399523080
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211802
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

The dreadful name of Henry Hills: The lives and afterlives of a seventeenth-century printer

The dreadful name of Henry Hills: The lives and afterlives...

Author: Michael Durrant
ISBN: 9781526129390
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom

Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and...

Author: Benjamin Fagan
ISBN: 9781512829235
Format: Hardback
$116.00

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere...

Author: Cristóbal Pérez Barra (Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9781399547116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

Rabelais and the Social Order: An Essay in Cognitive Criticism

Rabelais and the Social Order: An Essay in Cognitive...

Author: Neil Kenny (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of French, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198987246
Format: Hardback
$282.95

This book explores the fiction of the French writer François Rabelais (d. 1553) and its engagement with the seemingly...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: Encountering the Passenger and Stella Maris

New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: Encountering the...

Author: Jonathan Elmore ,  Rick Elmore
ISBN: 9781643366487
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy...  Read More >>

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature...

Author: Julia C. Obert
ISBN: 9781805966852
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy...  Read More >>

The Avant-Garde after Bolaño: Literature and Affects in Latin America

The Avant-Garde after Bolaño: Literature and Affects...

Author: Rodrigo López Martínez
ISBN: 9781805966401
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The Avant-Garde after Bolaño: Literature and Affects in Latin America studies how the paradigmatic impact of the...  Read More >>

New Medieval Literatures 26

New Medieval Literatures 26

Author: Philip Knox ,  Caroline Batten
ISBN: 9781843847922
Format: Hardback
$316.80

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