Literary studies: general books

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Présences du sacré dans le symbolisme français et belge

Présences du sacré dans le symbolisme français et belge...

Author: Christoph Groß ,  Susanne A. Friede
ISBN: 9789004747234
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Lorsque le dogme se tait, le sacré peut-il encore faire entendre sa voix ? Ce volume invite à découvrir les modalités...  Read More >>

Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need

Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature,...

Author: Ian Marshall
ISBN: 9780813955186
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Nature's ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river,...  Read More >>

Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from Bacon to Austen

Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from...

Author: Kelly Swartz
ISBN: 9780813954127
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Fikr-o-Nazr - kuch naye zaaviye - Part-2: (Thoughts and Insights, part-2, Essays)

Fikr-o-Nazr - kuch naye zaaviye - Part-2: (Thoughts...

Author: Syed Hyderabadi
ISBN: 9789369083534
Format: Paperback
$76.53

The concept of intellectual freedom is fundamental for both writers and critics. While critics possess the liberty...  Read More >>

Fikr-o-Nazr - kuch naye zaaviye - Part-1: (Thoughts and Insights, part-1, Essays)

Fikr-o-Nazr - kuch naye zaaviye - Part-1: (Thoughts...

Author: Syed Hyderabadi
ISBN: 9789369081394
Format: Paperback
$73.89

This book explores the importance of intellectual freedom in criticism, emphasizing the need for balanced, well-informed...  Read More >>

Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

Author: Luke Roberts (Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry _x000D_, King’s College London_x000D_)
ISBN: 9781399519861
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation, 1820–45

British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation,...

Author: Alexis Easley (Professor of English, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota)
ISBN: 9781399514019
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The first edited essay collection of its kind to focus on innovators and innovations in the mass-market press from...  Read More >>

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Author: Frederick D. King (Assistant Professor for the Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University)
ISBN: 9781399525954
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture...  Read More >>

African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing

African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism...

Author: Katherine Hallemeier (Associate Professor in the Department of English, Oklahoma State University)
ISBN: 9781399516174
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading...

Author: Harryette Mullen (Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles) ,  Georgina Colby (Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Westminster)
ISBN: 9781399533355
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day  Read More >>

Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt

Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics...

Author: Jean Walton (Professor Emerita in the Department of English, University of Rhode Island)
ISBN: 9781399532938
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Author: Arin Keeble (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Edinburgh Napier University)
ISBN: 9781474478687
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century  Read More >>

William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women

William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women...

Author: Jodie Marley
ISBN: 9783032038173
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book examines William Blake as a ‘mystic’ and the movements and authors that contributed to this definition...  Read More >>

Germanos II, Patriarch of Constantinople (1223-1240): Select Sermons

Germanos II, Patriarch of Constantinople (1223-1240):...

Author: Michael Angold
ISBN: 9781836245254
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The twenty-one sermons translated here were not, as was so often the case, exercises in belles-lettres but a sustained...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Author: Robert White (Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781399516228
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career

Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career...

Author: Jeffrey Knapp (Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781399543705
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse

Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas...

Author: Jackie Watson (Independent Scholar, PhD from Birbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781474483384
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

Beyond Emancipation: Maroon Freedoms in US Literature, 1850–1862

Beyond Emancipation: Maroon Freedoms in US Literature,...

Author: Sean Gerrity
ISBN: 9798855802597
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Explores how African American literary representations of maroons in the decade leading up to the Civil War complicate...  Read More >>

Mary Barnard: Complete Poems and Selected Translations

Mary Barnard: Complete Poems and Selected Translations...

Author: Mary Barnard ,  Sarah Barnsley
ISBN: 9798855802658
Format: Paperback
$100.19

The most comprehensive collection of writing by award-winning US poet, renowned translator of Sappho, and trailblazing...  Read More >>

Absolute Fiction: Idealist Philosophy and British Literature

Absolute Fiction: Idealist Philosophy and British Literature...

Author: Justin Prystash (National Taiwan Normal University)
ISBN: 9798855802832
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Explores the coevolution of Absolute idealist philosophy and British fiction from the Romantic period forward.  Read More >>

Humour in Verse: An Anthology

Humour in Verse: An Anthology

Author: W. E. Slater
ISBN: 9781316601723
Format: Paperback
$71.25

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Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility...

Author: Joel Duncan
ISBN: 9780813954035
Format: Paperback
$80.99

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature...

Author: Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781009690508
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

Urdu ki baat - Part-3: (Urdu Talk, part-3, Essays)

Urdu ki baat - Part-3: (Urdu Talk, part-3, Essays)

Author: Mukarram Niyaz
ISBN: 9789369080328
Format: Paperback
$84.45

This book (part-3) explores the development of Urdu, emphasizing adaptation to societal and technological changes....  Read More >>

Urdu ki baat - Part-2: (Urdu Talk, Essays)

Urdu ki baat - Part-2: (Urdu Talk, Essays)

Author: Mukarram Niyaz
ISBN: 9789369081851
Format: Paperback
$73.89

This book explores the development of Urdu, emphasizing adaptation to societal and technological changes. It offers...  Read More >>

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