Literary studies: general books

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Xhosa Poets and Poetry: Second edition, updated and revised

Xhosa Poets and Poetry: Second edition, updated and...

Author: Jeff Opland
ISBN: 9781847014504
Format: Hardback
$336.38

Essays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....  Read More >>

Isizwe esinembali: Xhosa histories and poetry (1873–1888)

Isizwe esinembali: Xhosa histories and poetry (1873–1888)...

Author: Jeff Opland ,  Dr Wandile Kuse
ISBN: 9781847014429
Format: Hardback
$336.38

Edition and translation of all of William Wellington Gqoba's clearly identifiable writings in isiXhosa and English,...  Read More >>

Xhosa literature: Spoken and printed words

Xhosa literature: Spoken and printed words

Author: Jeff Opland
ISBN: 9781847014528
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Essays examining isiXhosa oral literature, novels and journalism and the interconnections between them in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Hadi waseluhlangeni: Collected writings (1873–1916)

Hadi waseluhlangeni: Collected writings (1873–1916)...

Author: Jeff Opland ,  Professor Pamela Maseko
ISBN: 9781847014580
Format: Hardback
$336.38

All the clearly identifiable writings of Jonas Ntsiko, the 'national harp' of South Africa, in English and in isiXhosa....  Read More >>

Lexicography: Notes on Xhosa lore and language (1909–1934)

Lexicography: Notes on Xhosa lore and language (1909–1934)...

Author: Jeff Opland
ISBN: 9781847014542
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Articles on Xhosa language and folklore.  Read More >>

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England: Volume 38

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England: Volume 38...

Author: S. P. Cerasano
ISBN: 9781683939863
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Volume 38 of a continuing academic journal dedicated to research in the field of early drama and theatrical studies....  Read More >>

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Author: Tamara Hundorova ,  Tetiana Savchynska
ISBN: 9798897831166
Format: Hardback
$125.00

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

Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France

Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in...

Author: Natania Meeker
ISBN: 9781531512576
Format: Paperback
$80.99

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Antigone

Antigone

Author: Sophocles ,  Elizabeth Wyckoff
ISBN: 9780226844657
Format: Paperback
$19.95

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Navigating New Homelands: Displacement and Migration in Post Colonial Nation-State

Navigating New Homelands: Displacement and Migration...

Author: Sk Sagir Ali ,  Tanmoy Kundu
ISBN: 9781803746074
Format: Paperback
$160.91

This book analyzes the development of nationalist and bio-political narratives and their role in perpetuating exclusionary...  Read More >>

Eco-Punk Narratives: Navigating Post-Cyberpunk and Environmental Discourses

Eco-Punk Narratives: Navigating Post-Cyberpunk and Environmental...

Author: Tanu Gupta ,  Tania Bansal
ISBN: 9781032894423
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This book analyses eco-punk, a literary subgenre at the intersection of post-cyberpunk and environmentalism.  Read More >>

Studies on the Transmission of Orion's Etymologicum

Studies on the Transmission of Orion's Etymologicum...

Author: Alessandro Musino ,  Prof. Dr. Christian Brockmann
ISBN: 9783525303382
Format: Hardback
$199.21

Die erste Untersuchung zur Überlieferung des Etymologicum von Orion  Read More >>

Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel

Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel

Author: Olivia Ferguson
ISBN: 9781009274241
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism...  Read More >>

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century...

Author: Edwin Frank
ISBN: 9781529925722
Format: Paperback
$29.99

""A notable editor's survey of the defining novels of the twentieth century""--  Read More >>

A Guide to Academic Writing: How to Tame Your Essay

A Guide to Academic Writing: How to Tame Your Essay...

Author: Irina Ruppo
ISBN: 9781032650098
Format: Paperback
$90.99

A Guide to Academic Writing: How to Tame Your Essay presents a holistic approach to writing in academia. The book...  Read More >>

King Arthur: Medieval British Literature and Modern Critical Tradition

King Arthur: Medieval British Literature and Modern...

Author: Andrew Breeze
ISBN: 9781961361256
Format: Paperback
$92.37

King Arthur: Medieval British Literature and Modern Critical Tradition is a book that revolutionizes our understanding...  Read More >>

American Writers in Paris: Then and Now

American Writers in Paris: Then and Now

Author: Ferdâ Asya
ISBN: 9783031669897
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This book examines the works of American writers in Paris and explores the evolving interactions between these writers...  Read More >>

The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death

The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing...

Author: Joanna Stalnaker
ISBN: 9780300181340
Format: Hardback
$61.95

A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical...  Read More >>

The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics

The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics...

Author: Jan Baetens ,  Hugo Frey
ISBN: 9781477332504
Format: Hardback
$127.00

How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics.  Read More >>

Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Author: Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia) ,  Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198972662
Format: Hardback
$199.95

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media

Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass...

Author: Sonia Hazard (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780197608098
Format: Hardback
$278.95

Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media tells a new story of how nineteenth-century evangelicals...  Read More >>

Leo Tolstoy's Writings for Young Children

Leo Tolstoy's Writings for Young Children

Author: Leo Tolstoy ,  Michael R. Katz
ISBN: 9798887198316
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This volume is the very first annotated translation of all the titled stories included in the New ABC Book and in...  Read More >>

Milton's Strenuous Liberty

Milton's Strenuous Liberty

Author: Tobias Gregory (Catholic University of America, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781009561105
Format: Hardback
$245.81

What motivated Milton? Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's shifting priorities, arguing that, at...  Read More >>

The Forms and Fictions of Victorian Art Instruction

The Forms and Fictions of Victorian Art Instruction...

Author: Kimberly J. Stern (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9780198962922
Format: Hardback
$208.95

The Victorian period gave rise to revelatory new approaches to art instruction. A growing investment in standardized...  Read More >>

Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780–1914: Volume I: Literary, Cultural and Material Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning

Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth...

Author: Douglas Davies ,  Matthew McCullough
ISBN: 9781032282633
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century....  Read More >>

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