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Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages and Other Economic Curiosities in the World of Harry Potter

Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages...
Author: J Brian O'Roark ISBN: 9781592116874 Format: Paperback	$39.99
Magic can’t fix bad economics—discover why the wizarding world is still stuck in the Dark Ages! Discover the Shocking... Read More >>

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
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Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey
Author: Lillian E. Doherty ISBN: 9781603297103 Format: Paperback	$87.99
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen...
Author: Caroline Bicks ISBN: 9781399744515 Format: Hardback	$69.99
An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives. Read More >>

Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics

Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics...
Author: Kir Kuiken ISBN: 9781503645981 Format: Hardback	$300.00
Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to... Read More >>

Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture

Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture...
Author: Katharine Mershon ISBN: 9780231206969 Format: Hardback	$198.95
Katharine Mershon examines the unacknowledged religious underpinnings of stories about dogs, revealing deeply rooted... Read More >>

The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets

The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives...
Author: J. T. Welsch ISBN: 9781526191991 Format: Hardback	$69.99
Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T.... Read More >>

Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine

Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic...
Author: A. David Lewis ISBN: 9781496862266 Format: Hardback	$229.00
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Conversations with Michael S. Harper

Conversations with Michael S. Harper
Author: John Zheng , Michael Antonucci ISBN: 9781496861610 Format: Hardback	$254.00
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Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: Gendered narratives of encounter

Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: Gendered narratives...
Author: Claudia Capancioni , Julia Kuehn ISBN: 9781526184429 Format: Hardback	$206.99
This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century... Read More >>

Joyce's Theatrical Poetics: The Novel Language of Drama

Joyce's Theatrical Poetics: The Novel Language of Drama...
Author: Valérie Bénéjam ISBN: 9780813079578 Format: Hardback	$220.00
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Die Weltliterarischen Elemente in Der Chinesischen Literatur

Die Weltliterarischen Elemente in Der Chinesischen Literatur...
Author: Sihe Chen , Thomas Zimmer ISBN: 9783112224984 Format: Hardback	$71.47
Wie kann der Leitbegriff ""Weltliteratur"" unseren Blick auf chinesische Literaturgeschichte ändern? Zum ersten... Read More >>

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing of History in the Greco-Roman World

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing...
Author: John Marincola (Leon Golden Professor Emeritus of Classics, Florida State University) ISBN: 9780198979180 Format: Hardback	$246.95
This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical... Read More >>

Firewing

Firewing
Author: David A Pearson ISBN: 9781350654747 Format: Paperback	$21.99
The debut play by INSPIRE graduate David Pearson, Firewing is a striking new play about connection, artistry and... 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 >>

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 >>

Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Cultures

Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary...
Author: Oliver Scheiding (University of Mainz, Germany) ISBN: 9781119825166 Format: Paperback	$53.95
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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 >>

What Happened to Icarus: Encountering the Unfathomable in a World in Crisis

What Happened to Icarus: Encountering the Unfathomable...
Author: Theodore Richards ISBN: 9781965320938 Format: Paperback	$58.08
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Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology...
Author: Elizabeth D. Gruber ISBN: 9783032181541 Format: Hardback	$369.57
Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology examines five female-authored novelizations of The Tempest,... 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
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Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early...
Author: Katherine Schaap Williams ISBN: 9781501786846 Format: Paperback	$87.99
""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,... Read More >>

The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Post-War US Poetry

The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Post-War US...
Author: Tymek Woodham (University College London, UK.) ISBN: 9781350417229 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic... Read More >>

Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary Fiction

Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary...
Author: Dr Daniel Cook (University of Dundee, UK) , Daniel Cook (University of Dundee UK) ISBN: 9781350501959 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings,... Read More >>

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