Literary studies: general books

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What Nails It

What Nails It

Author: Greil Marcus
ISBN: 9780300285529
Format: Paperback
$20.95

From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art  Read More >>

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise of Digital Community

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise...

Author: Al Filreis
ISBN: 9780231221597
Format: Paperback
$59.95

In The Classroom and the Crowd, Al Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary...  Read More >>

The Lost History of Roman Theatre

The Lost History of Roman Theatre

Author: T.P. Wiseman
ISBN: 9780691273235
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Investigating the origins of theatre in archaic Rome Theatre was an integral part of Roman civic, religious and...  Read More >>

Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond

Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato...

Author: Piero Boitani
ISBN: 9780691276144
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeus-and its major themes, creation and beauty-through the centuries...  Read More >>

Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature

Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian...

Author: Adriaan van Klinken (Associate Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780271100395
Format: Hardback
$173.00

""Explores how twenty-first century Nigerian novels engage with Christianity as a locally rooted aspect of postcolonial...  Read More >>

Eileen O’Shaughnessy, in Her Own Words: The Complete Letters of George Orwell's Wife

Eileen O’Shaughnessy, in Her Own Words: The Complete...

Author: Angela Smith ,  Sylvia Topp
ISBN: 9783032033666
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary American Novel

Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary...

Author: Jamie Redgate
ISBN: 9783032083722
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Nightmares of the National Imaginary: Surveillance and Sousveillance in Canadian Literature

Nightmares of the National Imaginary: Surveillance and...

Author: Tom Halford
ISBN: 9781487564124
Format: Hardback
$115.00

This book explores the importance of contemporary Canadian literature as a kind of nuance-making machine in a world...  Read More >>

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise of Digital Community

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise...

Author: Al Filreis
ISBN: 9780231221580
Format: Hardback
$240.95

In The Classroom and the Crowd, Al Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary...  Read More >>

The Letters of Dr Charles Burney: Volume VI: 1810–1814

The Letters of Dr Charles Burney: Volume VI: 1810–1814...

Author: Peter Sabor (Emeritus Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill University)
ISBN: 9780198738640
Format: Hardback
$439.95

This sixth volume of the Letters of Dr Charles Burney covers the years 1810-1814, when he died at the age of 88....  Read More >>

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Author: Jimmy Packham (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781009433754
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations

Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their...

Author: Melissa Schuh
ISBN: 9783032004109
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality?...  Read More >>

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Author: Jimmy Packham (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781009548205
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine:...

Author: Erich Neumann ,  Ralph Manheim
ISBN: 9780691279282
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

Fantastic Histories: Medieval Fairy Narratives and the Limits of Wonder

Fantastic Histories: Medieval Fairy Narratives and the...

Author: Victoria Flood (Senior Lecturer)
ISBN: 9781526195852
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives: An Essential Reader

Close Reading and Its Alternatives: An Essential Reader...

Author: Mun-Hou Lo
ISBN: 9781032775746
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain

The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early...

Author: Mary E. Barnard ,  Frederick A. de Armas
ISBN: 9781487565336
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This book investigates new ways in which writers and artists of early modern Spain conceived of space through the...  Read More >>

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine:...

Author: Erich Neumann ,  Ralph Manheim
ISBN: 9780691279275
Format: Hardback
$62.99

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives: An Essential Reader

Close Reading and Its Alternatives: An Essential Reader...

Author: Mun-Hou Lo
ISBN: 9781032775739
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

Geometries of Empathy: Modernism, Attention, and the Contemporary Novel

Geometries of Empathy: Modernism, Attention, and the...

Author: Ágota Márton (Lecturer in English, Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198983316
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Geometries of Empathy offers a new take on the contemporary Anglophone novel through the much-contested problem...  Read More >>

English Literature UGC NET JRF: Part 1, UNIT I, II, III, IV

English Literature UGC NET JRF: Part 1, UNIT I, II,...

Author: Abha Bhardwaj Sharma
ISBN: 9798901365175
Format: Paperback
$79.17

This UGC NET/JRF course material, compiled by Prof Abha Bhadwaj Sharma, is divided into three parts. Part 1 covers...  Read More >>

Cotton Famine Poetry: Functions of Emotion in British and American Verse 1861–65

Cotton Famine Poetry: Functions of Emotion in British...

Author: Simon Rennie
ISBN: 9783032019622
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book represents the first substantial text examining the nature of Cotton Famine poetry, which responded to...  Read More >>

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Author: Thomas Hardy ,  Simon Gatrell (University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9781108475051
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Presenting the first-edition text of Far from the Madding Crowd for the first time since its 1874 publication, this...  Read More >>

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