Literary studies: general books

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Arrested Movement in the Middle East: Mobility and Political Dissent in Arab and Palestinian Culture

Arrested Movement in the Middle East: Mobility and Political...

Author: Drew Paul (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
ISBN: 9780755656721
Format: Hardback
$170.00

How mobility and its impediment serve as frameworks for expressions of political dissent in cultural production...  Read More >>

The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching: Prints, Process, Prose

The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching: Prints,...

Author: Rachel Skokowski (Curator, Janet Turner Print Museum and Director of Galleries, California State University)
ISBN: 9780198975274
Format: Hardback
$182.95

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature

Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian...

Author: Tamar Koplatadze (Associate Professor in Postsocialist Literature and Culture, Associate Professor in Postsocialist Literature and Culture, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198974062
Format: Hardback
$208.95

A monograph on the rich and complex history of postcolonial literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia, examining...  Read More >>

Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

Author: Leo Butler
ISBN: 9781350429475
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Award-winning British playwright, composer and screenwriter Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage...  Read More >>

Words Made Flesh: Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America

Words Made Flesh: Language, Body, and Conversion in...

Author: Caroline Egan
ISBN: 9781512828467
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Examines the role of the body in Indigenous-language religious texts from colonial Latin America Words Made Flesh...  Read More >>

Yale French Studies, Number 146: Fabienne Kanor in Transgression

Yale French Studies, Number 146: Fabienne Kanor in Transgression...

Author: Gladys M. Francis
ISBN: 9780300281897
Format: Paperback
$124.95

A collection of interdisciplinary critical essays examining the political and aesthetic practices of Martinican...  Read More >>

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 >>

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: 9780271100401
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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