Literary studies: general books

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Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels

Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels

Author: Ahmet Atas
ISBN: 9781666978926
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An investigation of the specific uses of the motif of melancholy in modern Kurdish novels  Read More >>

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and...

Author: Hadley Suter
ISBN: 9780813955124
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage

Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early...

Author: Pavneet Aulakh (Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Vanderbilt University) ,  James Kearney (Professor of English, University of California - Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781399520836
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics

Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital...

Author: Bruno Daniel Ministro dos Santos (Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Porto)
ISBN: 9781399551533
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines the transformative power of repetition in contemporary poetic practices.  Read More >>

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum...

Author: Allison S. Curseen
ISBN: 9781469694207
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives, Friendship and Writings

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives,...

Author: Susan Dunne
ISBN: 9781036135096
Format: Hardback
$80.00

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell shared one of the most remarkable literary friendships of the 19th century,...  Read More >>

Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short Fiction

Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short...

Author: John Beall
ISBN: 9780807182253
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Analyses more than a dozen pieces of Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and...  Read More >>

By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory on the Grammatika Vases

By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory...

Author: Maria Nasioula
ISBN: 9780674303300
Format: Paperback
$34.95

By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights...  Read More >>

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Author: Jesse Molesworth
ISBN: 9781503646377
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and...

Author: Chad Benito Infante
ISBN: 9781517919887
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Author: Johanna Winant
ISBN: 9780231217477
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...

Author: Fabian Alfie
ISBN: 9780268210588
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Author: Meredith L. Goldsmith ,  Emily J. Orlando
ISBN: 9780813081373
Format: Paperback
$56.10

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Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and...

Author: Hadley Suter
ISBN: 9780813955117
Format: Hardback
$266.00

How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there...  Read More >>

Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Author: William D. Paden
ISBN: 9780813079585
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright

So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry...

Author: Adam Scheffler
ISBN: 9780807186084
Format: Hardback
$92.99

James Wright (1927–80) was considered one of the major poets of his era, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, even...  Read More >>

Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality and Rewriting the Self

Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality...

Author: Angela L. Willis
ISBN: 9781683406556
Format: Hardback
$254.00

This book offers a fresh reading of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, showing how the Cuban writer reimagined literary...  Read More >>

Essais de critique idéaliste: Une analyse des courants idéalistes dans la critique littéraire explorant la satire et la poésie à travers les âges.

Essais de critique idéaliste: Une analyse des courants...

Author: Victor de Laprade
ISBN: 9791041944910
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Victor de Laprade explore la critique idéaliste à travers des essais perspicaces. Il examine la satire, de Juvénal...  Read More >>

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Author: Jesse Molesworth
ISBN: 9781503643567
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and...

Author: Chad Benito Infante
ISBN: 9781517919870
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes and Devices

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes...

Author: Gavriel Shapiro
ISBN: 9781680535907
Format: Hardback
$187.00

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Voices Under Fire: Quiet Defiances Add Up (Short Stories)

Voices Under Fire: Quiet Defiances Add Up (Short Stories)...

Author: Douglas Daleel
ISBN: 9781970853858
Format: Paperback
$39.57

They don't begin as heroes. They begin as people trying to get through an ordinary day - students, teachers, parents...  Read More >>

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Author: Johanna Winant
ISBN: 9780231217460
Format: Hardback
$215.95

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