Literature: history & criticism books

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The Americas' First Sermons: The Nahuatl Sermonary of Fray Bernardino De Sahagún

The Americas' First Sermons: The Nahuatl Sermonary of...

Author: Ben Leeming ,  Bernardino de Sahagun
ISBN: 9781647692551
Format: Paperback
$104.00

""First publication of the complete sermonary composed by Bernardino de Sahagâun and his Nahua students at the Colegio...  Read More >>

Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers

Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers

Author: John L Williams
ISBN: 9780857306265
Format: Paperback
$36.99

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational Justice

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational...

Author: Stacey Margolis (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Utah)
ISBN: 9780197839584
Format: Hardback
$194.95

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and...

Author: Julie Stone Peters (H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780197903957
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

The Delirium Archive

The Delirium Archive

Author: Shane Mac an Bhaird
ISBN: 9781350654808
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The Delirium Archive is a world premiere by Shane Mac an Bhaird. It is about family, and the intangible love technology...  Read More >>

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction

Author: Deborah Levy
ISBN: 9780241457801
Format: Hardback
$42.99

In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining...  Read More >>

Cynefin: Wisdom from a thousand years of Welsh nature poetry

Cynefin: Wisdom from a thousand years of Welsh nature...

Author: Carwyn Graves
ISBN: 9781837600663
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Reimagine our relationship with the natural world through the Welsh poetic tradition. At a time of biodiversity...  Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Author: Karen Sullivan
ISBN: 9781837723751
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Please Please Me

Please Please Me

Author: Tom Wright
ISBN: 9781350641488
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Please Please Me is the electrifying story of The Beatles’ meteoric rise and the hidden struggles of their beloved...  Read More >>

Becoming Anne Lister: Diaries, Adaptations, and Afterlives

Becoming Anne Lister: Diaries, Adaptations, and Afterlives...

Author: Sarah E. Maier ,  Rachel M. Friars
ISBN: 9783032255594
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Becoming Anne Lister: Diaries, Adaptations, and Afterlives examines Anne Lister’s historical legacy as a prolific...  Read More >>

¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea

¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea...

Author: Ana M Corbalán
ISBN: 9798261600015
Format: Paperback
$227.04

'¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea' analiza la experiencia, corporeidad, identidad y representación...  Read More >>

Last Stops of the Night Journey

Last Stops of the Night Journey

Author: Milo de Angelis ,  Susan Stewart
ISBN: 9781962770637
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Glimmering meditations on time, memory, imprisonment, human connection, life and death by the preeminent Italian...  Read More >>

James Joyce: A Political Life

James Joyce: A Political Life

Author: Frank Callanan ,  Robert Spoo
ISBN: 9780691227979
Format: Hardback
$79.99

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies...

Author: Vicky Osterweil
ISBN: 9798888903667
Format: Hardback
$47.99

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Things My Grandmother Said: Poems

Things My Grandmother Said: Poems

Author: Amit Majmudar
ISBN: 9780593803165
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Poems inspired by the strong women in award-winning poet Amit Majmudar's life, celebrating the influence and energy...  Read More >>

Literature in the Light of Philosophy: The Interpretive Imagination

Literature in the Light of Philosophy: The Interpretive...

Author: Garry L. Hagberg
ISBN: 9783032092564
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the...  Read More >>

Christ’s war: Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian poetry, c.730–c.900 CE

Christ’s war: Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian...

Author: Dr Matthew Bryan Gillis
ISBN: 9781526193780
Format: Hardback
$194.99

Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution...  Read More >>

Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers

Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers...

Author: Clive Bloom
ISBN: 9783032148285
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers is the first in depth study of the capital and its gothic and...  Read More >>

Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives

Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone...

Author: Michelle Stork
ISBN: 9783032160560
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Narration and Narratology in Modern Persian Literature

Narration and Narratology in Modern Persian Literature...

Author: Alireza Korangy ,  Sara Khorshidi
ISBN: 9789819698325
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of modern Persian narratives.  Read More >>

A Thousand Souls: A Novel in Stories

A Thousand Souls: A Novel in Stories

Author: Catherine Tudish
ISBN: 9781968209025
Format: Paperback
$32.95

A collection of fourteen stories interweaving the lives of three generations in the remote town of Neptune, Vermont....  Read More >>

Affective Intermediality: Moving Images Between Media, Sensation and Reality

Affective Intermediality: Moving Images Between Media,...

Author: Ágnes Pethő
ISBN: 9783032017482
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Through in-depth case studies, the book examines how intermedial art practices involving moving images can convey...  Read More >>

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