Literature: history & criticism books

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Stratford-on-Avon: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare

Stratford-on-Avon: From the Earliest Times to the Death...

Author: Sir Sidney Lee ,  Edward Hull
ISBN: 9781108048187
Format: Paperback
$30.56 $33.95

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The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism, and Multiculturalism

The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism,...

Author: Elleke Boehmer ,  Sarah de Mul
ISBN: 9780739164280
Format: Hardback
$91.96 $102.18

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Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives

Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and...

Author: Vinzenz Hediger ,  Barbara Le Maitre
ISBN: 9789089642912
Format: Paperback
$52.79 $58.65

This important and first-of-its-kind collection addresses the emerging challenges in the field of media art preservation...  Read More >>

Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity

Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity

Author: Sheng-Mei Ma
ISBN: 9781557536112
Format: Paperback
$59.12 $65.69

<p>Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema...  Read More >>

Teaching English as a Second Language: Giving New Learners an Everyday Grammar

Teaching English as a Second Language: Giving New Learners...

Author: Richard McGarry
ISBN: 9780786470624
Format: Paperback
$45.98 $51.09

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Masters of the Humdrum Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 19201961

Masters of the Humdrum Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street,...

Author: Curt Evans ,  Curtis J Evans (University of Chicago Divinity School)
ISBN: 9780786470242
Format: Paperback
$65.62 $72.91

In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the crime novel, influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons...  Read More >>

Respecting the Stand: A Critical Analysis of Stephen King's Apocalpytic Novel

Respecting the Stand: A Critical Analysis of Stephen...

Author: Jenifer Paquette
ISBN: 9780786470013
Format: Paperback
$52.55 $58.39

Many academics dismiss Stephen King as a mere genre writer, an over-glorified bestseller who appeals to the masses,...  Read More >>

Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary

Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary

Author: Steven Olderr
ISBN: 9780786469550
Format: Paperback
$85.39 $94.88

Defines 6,115 terms, ancient to modern, of general symbolism and specialized meanings in literature, art, religion,...  Read More >>

Ecocritical Theology: Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present

Ecocritical Theology: Neo-Pastoral Themes in American...

Author: Joan Anderson Ashford
ISBN: 9780786469741
Format: Paperback
$72.26 $80.28

The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its biosystems, its...  Read More >>

Three Guineas

Three Guineas

Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9781554811083
Format: Paperback
$12.59 $13.99

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The Turks in Egypt and Their Cultural Legacy

The Turks in Egypt and Their Cultural Legacy

Author: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu ,  Humphrey Davies
ISBN: 9789774163975
Format: Hardback
$72.26

An analysis of the cultural role played by the printed word in Turkish-ruled Egypt  Read More >>

Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered

Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered

Author: Marc C Conner
ISBN: 9780813039763
Format: Hardback
$98.46 $109.40

<p> An indispensable collection of essays that should inspire new interest in Joyce's poetry, both for its own sake...  Read More >>

The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy

The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy

Author: Kathy Eden
ISBN: 9780226184623
Format: Hardback
$45.98 $51.09

Explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance....  Read More >>

Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature

Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature...

Author: Daniel Levin Becker
ISBN: 9780674065772
Format: Hardback
$36.72 $40.80

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Tombe

Tombe

Author: Helene Cixous ,  Laurent Milesi
ISBN: 9780857420251
Format: Hardback
$32.84 $36.49

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Kite

Kite

Author: Dominique Edde ,  Ros Schwartz
ISBN: 9780857420435
Format: Hardback
$32.84 $36.49

Beginning in the 1960s and ending in the late '80s, this title presents a narrative of a passionate, and ultimately...  Read More >>

December

December

Author: Alexander Kluge ,  Gerhard Richter
ISBN: 9780857420350
Format: Hardback
$26.27 $29.19

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The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction

The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction...

Author: Mark Andryczyk
ISBN: 9781442643321
Format: Hardback
$58.39

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Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction

Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian...

Author: Elena M. Past
ISBN: 9781442643888
Format: Hardback
$98.53 $109.48

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Proust Among the Stars: How to Read Him, Why Read Him?

Proust Among the Stars: How to Read Him, Why Read Him?...

Author: Malcolm Bowie
ISBN: 9780231114905
Format: Hardback
$121.88

A matchless close reading of Remembrance of Things Past and a lesson in how to read the great books profitably...  Read More >>

Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo's New Light

Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo's New Light

Author: Martin M. Winkler
ISBN: 9781107404366
Format: Paperback
$44.06 $48.95

This 2009 book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and...  Read More >>

Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England

Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England

Author: Judith Haber
ISBN: 9781107404311
Format: Paperback
$38.66 $42.95

This wide-ranging 2009 study investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern...  Read More >>

Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-century Britain: Jane Austen to the New Woman

Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-century Britain:...

Author: Cheryl A. Wilson
ISBN: 9781107404373
Format: Paperback
$38.66 $42.95

This 2009 book explores how dance provided a vehicle through which nineteenth-century writers could convey social...  Read More >>

From Sketch to Novel: The Development of Victorian Fiction

From Sketch to Novel: The Development of Victorian Fiction...

Author: Amanpal Garcha
ISBN: 9781107404458
Format: Paperback
$40.46 $44.95

This 2009 book shows how the literary sketch influenced the careers of William Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth...  Read More >>

The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950

The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950

Author: Richard Maxwell
ISBN: 9781107404465
Format: Paperback
$40.46 $44.95

This 2009 book examines how the French invention and the Scottish re-invention of historical fiction prepared the...  Read More >>

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