Literary studies: general books

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Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray

Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray

Author: Alexander Key (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University) ,  Letizia Osti (Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Milan)
ISBN: 9781399543132
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition....  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to Feminisms in Canadian Literature

The Routledge Introduction to Feminisms in Canadian...

Author: Andrea Beverley ,  Kait Pinder
ISBN: 9781032719948
Format: Paperback
$108.65

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Getting Started as a Literary Translator: Translated Literature and Publishing

Getting Started as a Literary Translator: Translated...

Author: Richard Mansell ,  Helen Vassallo
ISBN: 9781032901817
Format: Paperback
$108.65

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

Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Author: William D. Paden
ISBN: 9780813079585
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Author: Marissa Nicosia
ISBN: 9781032043951
Format: Paperback
$87.95

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

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830998
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright

So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry...

Author: Adam Scheffler
ISBN: 9780807186084
Format: Hardback
$92.99

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The Life of Richard Rolle: Together with an Edition of his English Lyrics

The Life of Richard Rolle: Together with an Edition...

Author: Frances M. M. Comper
ISBN: 9781041302636
Format: Hardback
$245.79

Richard Rolle, hermit of Hampole, is one of the least known yet most important English mystics. When this book was...  Read More >>

William Cobbett

William Cobbett

Author: James Sambrook
ISBN: 9781041300656
Format: Hardback
$191.45

Originally published in 1973 this book presents an account of Cobbett’s life and works, placing him in a wide cultural...  Read More >>

English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans: Its Background, Origins and Developments

English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans:...

Author: A.P. Rossiter
ISBN: 9781041314837
Format: Hardback
$388.12

First published in 1950, English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans is a detailed examination of representative...  Read More >>

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom of Empire

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom...

Author: Martin Green
ISBN: 9781041313618
Format: Hardback
$388.12

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century (1984) discusses 6 authors whom Dr Green saw as the most interesting...  Read More >>

Form and Style in Early English Literature

Form and Style in Early English Literature

Author: Pamela Gradon
ISBN: 9781041315148
Format: Hardback
$388.12

This book (1971) critically investigates the main literary genres and styles of Old and Middle English, illustrated...  Read More >>

Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric

Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric

Author: Dianne Mitchell
ISBN: 9781512829402
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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Public Acoustics: The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature

Public Acoustics: The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime...

Author: Ellen R. Welch
ISBN: 9781512829471
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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Fissured Ground: National History in Angolan Fiction, Origins to Independence

Fissured Ground: National History in Angolan Fiction,...

Author: Stephen Henighan
ISBN: 9780228026921
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This fascinating history explores the development of a distinctive national prose tradition in colonial Angola,...  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: 9781643366272
Format: Hardback
$266.00

Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy...  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: 9781469694191
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  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: 9781978846265
Format: Hardback
$224.40

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees in America, 1825-1876

In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees...

Author: Christiana Payne
ISBN: 9781682262887
Format: Hardback
$139.00

In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of trees both as allies in the fight against...  Read More >>

Writing Cancer: Literary Explorations of a Timeless Disease

Writing Cancer: Literary Explorations of a Timeless...

Author: Ad A. Kaptein ,  Brian M. Hughes
ISBN: 9789819565009
Format: Hardback
$90.54

This book offers a rich exploration of how cancer is experienced, narrated, and understood through creative literature....  Read More >>

In Between Keep Moving: A Pierre Joris Reader

In Between Keep Moving: A Pierre Joris Reader

Author: Pierre Joris ,  Ariel Resnikoff
ISBN: 9781940625812
Format: Paperback
$134.64

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The Völsung Ballads from the Faroe Islands in English Translation

The Völsung Ballads from the Faroe Islands in English...

Author: Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen (University of Bergen) ,  Mortan Nolsøe Jacobsen (Independent)
ISBN: 9781802703313
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Völsung hero Sigurðr fáfnisbani, the pre-eminent dragon-slaying...  Read More >>

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