Literature: history & criticism books

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The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the...

Author: Joseph Boone
ISBN: 9780231222204
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

The Insides of the Outsider: Women and the Poetics of Space and Place

The Insides of the Outsider: Women and the Poetics of...

Author: Mariangela Ugarelli
ISBN: 9798881904340
Format: Paperback
$150.48

When asked if being a woman had a negative impact on her ability to succeed as a writer, Argentine poet Alejandra...  Read More >>

Amerigun: Poems

Amerigun: Poems

Author: Anne Marie Macari
ISBN: 9780892556366
Format: Paperback
$27.95

In her heartrending sixth collection of poetry, Anne Marie Macari communes with a brother decades gone and calls...  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

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

Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800

Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800

Author: Anastasia Eccles
ISBN: 9780226847382
Format: Paperback
$45.95

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

Perambulations: The Collected Works of Teatro Chicano de Laredo 2009–2012

Perambulations: The Collected Works of Teatro Chicano...

Author: Laurence Wensel
ISBN: 9781041127154
Format: Paperback
$108.65

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Reading Literature: Practical Approaches to Engaging with Literature

Reading Literature: Practical Approaches to Engaging...

Author: Robert DiYanni
ISBN: 9781041043348
Format: Paperback
$108.65

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Explosive Emotions: How Modern Society Shapes What We Feel

Explosive Emotions: How Modern Society Shapes What We...

Author: Eva Illouz
ISBN: 9780691274942
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Understanding the source of our current political and social malaise through our emotional responses to it  Read More >>

What's in a name?: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare

What's in a name?: How historians know Shakespeare was...

Author: Susan Dwyer Amussen
ISBN: 9781526191908
Format: Hardback
$69.99

In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to...  Read More >>

knightfall

knightfall

Author: Rohan Phadnis
ISBN: 9798295583568
Format: Paperback
$36.93

knightfall by Rohan Phadnis is a collection of modern poetry that explores politics, philosophy, and the human condition....  Read More >>

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the...

Author: Joseph Boone
ISBN: 9780231222198
Format: Hardback
$298.95

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  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: 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 >>

Homework: A Memoir

Homework: A Memoir

Author: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9781837262014
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood...  Read More >>

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Author: Judi Dench ,  Brendan O'Hea
ISBN: 9781250386175
Format: Paperback
$52.80

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through...  Read More >>

What the Mirror Said: The Necessity of Black Women in Poetry

What the Mirror Said: The Necessity of Black Women in...

Author: Ashley M Jones
ISBN: 9780472040193
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare's Mathematical Life and Times

Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare's Mathematical Life...

Author: Rob Eastaway
ISBN: 9798893031256
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Bale After Bale: How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century South

Bale After Bale: How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century...

Author: David A. Davis ,  Robert Jackson
ISBN: 9780813954745
Format: Paperback
$80.99

From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American culture There are few places on earth as thoroughly...  Read More >>

Perambulations: The Collected Works of Teatro Chicano de Laredo 2009–2012

Perambulations: The Collected Works of Teatro Chicano...

Author: Laurence Wensel
ISBN: 9781041127161
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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Thinking through Words: Practical Approaches to Critical and Creative Thinking

Thinking through Words: Practical Approaches to Critical...

Author: Robert DiYanni
ISBN: 9781041172239
Format: Paperback
$69.84

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Reading Literature: Practical Approaches to Engaging with Literature

Reading Literature: Practical Approaches to Engaging...

Author: Robert DiYanni
ISBN: 9781041026310
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees in America, 1825-1876

In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees...

Author: Christiana Payne
ISBN: 9781682262887
Format: Hardback
$139.00

In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of trees both as allies in the fight against...  Read More >>

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