Literary studies: general books

315231 books were found.

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen...

Author: Caroline Bicks
ISBN: 9781399744522
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas

Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas...

Author: Emily Gowers
ISBN: 9780691257457
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Author: Sebastian D. G. Knowles ,  Geert Lernout
ISBN: 9780813081311
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to...

Author: Camille Paglia
ISBN: 9781917189552
Format: Paperback
$43.96

This work offers a unified field theory of Western culture, high and low, since the Egyptians invented beauty....  Read More >>

Poetisierung der Krankheit: Studien zur deutschsprachigen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts (Benn, Kafka, Dürrenmatt, Bernhard)

Poetisierung der Krankheit: Studien zur deutschsprachigen...

Author: Dongyao Liu
ISBN: 9789819582846
Format: Paperback
$211.17

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den Schlüsselbegriff „Krankheit“ in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts....  Read More >>

Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800

Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800

Author: Anastasia Eccles
ISBN: 9780226847375
Format: Hardback
$303.60

This new theory of reader response describes “perverse attachment,” or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

Women in Molière’s Comedies: How Little Do You Know a Woman’s Heart!

Women in Molière’s Comedies: How Little Do You Know...

Author: Diana Koloini
ISBN: 9781032578064
Format: Paperback
$119.00

The book proposes a new reading of Molière’s classical comedies, focused on a reassessment of his woman figures,...  Read More >>

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0

Author: Raoul Eshelman
ISBN: 9781032359571
Format: Paperback
$119.00

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism....  Read More >>

The Persistence of Racialization: Literature, Gender, and Ethnicity

The Persistence of Racialization: Literature, Gender,...

Author: Luz Angélica Kirschner
ISBN: 9781032526720
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This interdisciplinary book represents the attempt at unpacking the legacy of modern ideas of race initiated and...  Read More >>

Perpetrators’ Legacies: Post-imperial Condition in Sebald and McEwan

Perpetrators’ Legacies: Post-imperial Condition in Sebald...

Author: Vladimir Biti
ISBN: 9781032814445
Format: Paperback
$119.00

The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who, enmeshed in the...  Read More >>

Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora

Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland...

Author: Jean Amato ,  Kyunghee Pyun
ISBN: 9781032909486
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This collection examines our fascination with homes, blending comparative literature, critical art history, and...  Read More >>

Contemporary Chinese Novels in Translation since 1978: Literary Voices from the Periphery

Contemporary Chinese Novels in Translation since 1978:...

Author: Yun Wu
ISBN: 9781032876245
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This book seeks to complement the traditional scope of translation studies, which has primarily centered on translating...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Dramatic Poetry and Value

Shakespeare, Dramatic Poetry and Value

Author: MacDonald P. Jackson
ISBN: 9781032890425
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This book explores the diverse means by which Shakespeare’s poetry enriches his drama, illustrating how particular...  Read More >>

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism: Come Back Babar

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism:...

Author: Andrew Nyongesa (Murang'A University Of Technology) ,  John Mugubi
ISBN: 9781032772233
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the...  Read More >>

Language in Colonization, Renaissance Poetry and Shakespeare: From Interpoetics to Translation

Language in Colonization, Renaissance Poetry and Shakespeare:...

Author: Jonathan Locke Hart
ISBN: 9781032733593
Format: Paperback
$119.00

The book focuses on language in colonization,Renaissance poetry and Shakespeare, concentrating on text in context,...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Transformative Experience

The Philosophy of Transformative Experience

Author: Michael Campbell (Kyoto University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781032723181
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This volume examines the nature and significance of transformative experiences as they occur across a variety of...  Read More >>

Identity in Northeast Indian Literature: Rereading Select Writings from Meghalaya

Identity in Northeast Indian Literature: Rereading Select...

Author: Dustin Lalkulhpuia (Mizoram University, India)
ISBN: 9781032763705
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This book provides an in-depth analysis and critical examination of the representation of ethnic, sexual, cultural...  Read More >>

(In)Hospitable Encounters in Chicanx and Latinx Literature, Culture, and Thought

(In)Hospitable Encounters in Chicanx and Latinx Literature,...

Author: Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger ,  Pere Gifra-Adroher
ISBN: 9781032733524
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This volume addresses the notion of (in)hospitality in the culture, literature, and thought of Chicanx and Latinx...  Read More >>

Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics

Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics

Author: Laura Colombino
ISBN: 9781032935348
Format: Paperback
$119.00

Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues in Ishiguro’s fiction, shedding light on the moral...  Read More >>

Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories?

Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical...

Author: Paloma Fresno-Calleja (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) ,  Hsu-Ming Teo
ISBN: 9781032801797
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This volume focuses on Anglophone romantic historical fiction that involves stories of travel, tourism and migration...  Read More >>

Remembering, Replaying, and Rereading Henry VIII: The Courtier’s Henry

Remembering, Replaying, and Rereading Henry VIII: The...

Author: Igor Djordjevic
ISBN: 9781032866277
Format: Paperback
$119.00

It traces the evolution of the memory of Henry VIII in the century after his death, studying on Elizabethan, Jacobean,...  Read More >>

Professional Translators in Nineteenth-Century France

Professional Translators in Nineteenth-Century France...

Author: Susan Pickford (Sorbonne-Université, France)
ISBN: 9781032001821
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This book shines a light on the practices and professional identities of translators in nineteenth-century France,...  Read More >>

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas...

Author: Callum Fraser
ISBN: 9781032864334
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Milton’s epic...  Read More >>

Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake: Translouting that Gaswind into Turfish

Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans...

Author: Douglas Robinson (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781032746890
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines...  Read More >>

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