Literary studies: general books

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Hyperobject Reading, Scale Variance, and American Fiction in the Anthropocene

Hyperobject Reading, Scale Variance, and American Fiction...

Author: Chingshun J. Sheu
ISBN: 9783031256417
Format: Paperback
$343.17

2024 Ming Chuan University Research Award This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that...  Read More >>

Julian of Norwich and the Problem of Evil

Julian of Norwich and the Problem of Evil

Author: Richard Norton
ISBN: 9780718896157
Format: Paperback
$53.69

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Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13: Edited with Introduction,...

Author: Dr C. M. van der Keur (Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9780192884787
Format: Hardback
$341.95

This volume presents the first full-scale literary and linguistic analysis of the entire Punica 13. It includes...  Read More >>

Restorations of Empire in Africa: Ancient Rome and Modern Italy's African Colonies

Restorations of Empire in Africa: Ancient Rome and Modern...

Author: Samuel Agbamu (Lecturer in Classics, Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9780192848499
Format: Hardback
$191.95

The first full-length study of how Italian colonialism in Africa used the history of Roman imperialism on the continent...  Read More >>

Suryavamshi: The Sun Kings of Rajasthan

Suryavamshi: The Sun Kings of Rajasthan

Author: Abanindranath Tagore ,  Sandipan Deb
ISBN: 9789353456436
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Epic in their sweep, universal in their essence, the stories are timeless. Suryavamshi is a translation and adaptation...  Read More >>

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in...

Author: Christopher Hanscom
ISBN: 9780231208499
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent...  Read More >>

Critical Theory and Dystopia

Critical Theory and Dystopia

Author: Patricia McManus (Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural History)
ISBN: 9781526139757
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both...  Read More >>

Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry: Spolia in Old English Verse

Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry: Spolia in Old...

Author: Denis Ferhatovic (Assistant Professor)
ISBN: 9781526179142
Format: Paperback
$45.99

This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics...  Read More >>

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Volume I (Esprios Classics)

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Volume I (Esprios...

Author: Alexander Pope
ISBN: 9781714625161
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) is regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet...  Read More >>

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Esprios Classics): Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Esprios Classics):...

Author: Thomas de Quincey
ISBN: 9781715720780
Format: Paperback
$47.97

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his book Confessions of an...  Read More >>

Quatrevingt-Treize

Quatrevingt-Treize

Author: Victor Hugo
ISBN: 9789357950671
Format: Paperback
$68.01

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Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies

Author: Zekiye Antakyalioglu ,  Evrim Dogan Adanur
ISBN: 9781666913897
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies brings to attention the post-theoretical discussions on the changing...  Read More >>

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited

Author: Debra Benita Shaw
ISBN: 9783031251733
Format: Paperback
$343.17

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written...  Read More >>

Modernekritik und Fortschrittsskepsis bei Robert Musil: Freuds Triebtheorie im Typologiekreis der Wiener Moderne

Modernekritik und Fortschrittsskepsis bei Robert Musil:...

Author: Gernot Wimmer
ISBN: 9783662687666
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Wenngleich der Forschungsstand, wenn es sich um die intendierte Textaussage des Musil’schen Œuvre handelt, durch...  Read More >>

Another Literary Tour of Italy

Another Literary Tour of Italy

Author: Tim Parks
ISBN: 9781846884726
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Following the critical and commercial success of A Literary Tour of Italy, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks presents...  Read More >>

Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch Caribbean

Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch Caribbean

Author: Rose Mary Allen ,  Sruti Bala
ISBN: 9789004690875
Format: Hardback
$469.92

This handbook offers a comprehensive anthology of gender studies on the Caribbean islands of the Netherlands. It...  Read More >>

Graham Greene, Ireland and the Honorary Consul: A View from the South of France

Graham Greene, Ireland and the Honorary Consul: A View...

Author: Eamon Maher ,  Pierre Joannon
ISBN: 9781803744230
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This is a personal memoir providing original information on Greene, his sources of inspiration and his interest...  Read More >>

The Art of the Literary Poster

The Art of the Literary Poster

Author: Allison Rudnick ,  Jennifer A. Greenhill
ISBN: 9781588397744
Format: Hardback
$82.95

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Why Surrealism Matters

Why Surrealism Matters

Author: Mark Polizzotti
ISBN: 9780300257090
Format: Hardback
$34.95

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate...  Read More >>

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in...

Author: Christopher Hanscom
ISBN: 9780231208482
Format: Hardback
$198.95

Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent...  Read More >>

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch...

Author: Lee Gutkind
ISBN: 9780300251159
Format: Hardback
$51.95

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Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film

Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction...

Author: Josep M. Armengol
ISBN: 9783031533488
Format: Hardback
$316.77

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The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition from 1542 to the Present

The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition from...

Author: Harold Augenbraum ,  Margarite Fern andez Olmos
ISBN: 9780395765289
Format: Paperback
$44.88

"""The Latino Reader"" presents the full history of this important American literary tradition, from its mid-sixteenth-century...  Read More >>

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