Literary studies: general books

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Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Author: Matthew Thomas Miller
ISBN: 9780520426344
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211819
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Eyes of the Sky

Eyes of the Sky

Author: Kyle Shernuk ,  Syaman Rapongan
ISBN: 9780231211710
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

Author: Thomas Mann ,  Ritchie Robertson (Emeritus Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German, Emeritus Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198867722
Format: Paperback
$27.95

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and...  Read More >>

Translating His-stories

Translating His-stories

Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca)
ISBN: 9781009673167
Format: Paperback
$46.58

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish...

Author: Guy Woodward (Research Associate in the Department of English Studies, Research Associate in the Department of English Studies, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198973423
Format: Hardback
$218.95

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Author: Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University)
ISBN: 9781009435079
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

The American Scene

The American Scene

Author: Henry James ,  Peter Collister
ISBN: 9781108454933
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama: Volume 1, Art

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama:...

Author: Henry James ,  Peter Collister
ISBN: 9781316505687
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional...  Read More >>

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama: Volume 2, Drama

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama:...

Author: Henry James ,  Peter Collister
ISBN: 9781316505694
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Henry James is a highly readable commentator on the theatre and performance practices of his time. Readers of this...  Read More >>

The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Climate, Retreat and Revolution

The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Climate,...

Author: David Sergeant (University of Plymouth)
ISBN: 9781009279925
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before...  Read More >>

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Author: Tamara Hundorova ,  Tanya Savchynska
ISBN: 9798897831340
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

The Buddenbrooks

The Buddenbrooks

Author: Thomas Mann ,  Mike Mitchell
ISBN: 9780198843238
Format: Paperback
$27.95

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Awakening to Wholeness: On Pilgrimage with Dante

Awakening to Wholeness: On Pilgrimage with Dante

Author: Kerry Walters
ISBN: 9798385245512
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Dante's Divine Comedy is one of those classics more often cited than read. This is a shame because, in addition...  Read More >>

Bhagabata Charcha

Bhagabata Charcha

Author: Kalpataru Nayak
ISBN: 9781645608202
Format: Paperback
$42.24

ଭାଗବତ ହେଉଛି ଭାବର ବିଷୟ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାବେ ଏପରି କୌଣସି ବ୍ୟକ୍ତି ନାହିଁ ଯେ ଭାଗବତ ବିଷୟରେ ଜାଣିନାହିଁ । ଶିକ୍ଷିତ ଅଶିକ୍ଷିତ ନିର୍ବିଶେଷରେ...  Read More >>

Death in Venice and Other Stories

Death in Venice and Other Stories

Author: Thomas Mann ,  Nicola Luckhurst
ISBN: 9780198850076
Format: Paperback
$20.95

This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912,...  Read More >>

Arboreal Modernism and the Woodcut Book

Arboreal Modernism and the Woodcut Book

Author: Olivia Badoi
ISBN: 9783032108159
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials...  Read More >>

Textual and Artistic Representations of Guide Dogs in Northwestern Europe, 1100-1500

Textual and Artistic Representations of Guide Dogs in...

Author: Krista Milne
ISBN: 9783031947247
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This open access book provides the first full-length exploration of guide dogs in medieval textual and artistic...  Read More >>

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Author: Matthew Thomas Miller
ISBN: 9780520426337
Format: Hardback
$157.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211802
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Eyes of the Sky

Eyes of the Sky

Author: Kyle Shernuk ,  Syaman Rapongan
ISBN: 9780231211703
Format: Hardback
$165.95

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Author: Kent Lehnhof (Chapman University, California)
ISBN: 9781009613873
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the...  Read More >>

The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting, 1750–1850

The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting,...

Author: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781009599986
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts,...  Read More >>

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