Literature: history & criticism books

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Historical Roots of the Wondertale

Historical Roots of the Wondertale

Author: Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp ,  Miriam Shrager
ISBN: 9780253074027
Format: Hardback
$243.00

Nearly seven decades after the English translation of Morphology of the Folktale, one of the most influential scholarly...  Read More >>

A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England

A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early...

Author: Indira Ghose
ISBN: 9780691269993
Format: Hardback
$180.00

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing...  Read More >>

The Gothic in Times of Crisis

The Gothic in Times of Crisis

Author: John Whatley
ISBN: 9781526191724
Format: Hardback
$206.99

An exploration of new Gothic, old Gothic, and their intersection with the crises of our own times. This text shows...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology

The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology...

Author: Alex Goody (Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature & Culture, Oxford Brookes University) ,  Ian Whittington (Associate Professor of English, University of Mississippi)
ISBN: 9781399557092
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The first comprehensive reference book to define and delineate the intersections of modernism and technology.  Read More >>

Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in US Higher Education: Social Justice and Institutional Contexts

Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in US Higher Education:...

Author: Marissa Greenberg (Associate Professor of English, University of New Mexico) ,  Elizabeth Williamson (Faculty Member and Academic Dean, The Evergreen State College)
ISBN: 9781399516655
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Moves away from offering a single methodology or approach to social justice teaching, providing practical models...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts...

Author: Maureen McCue (former Senior Lecturer in nineteenth-century British Literature, Bangor University) ,  Sophie Thomas (Professor of English, Toronto Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781399557115
Format: Paperback
$89.99

The only volume to comprehensively bring together developments from different disciplines that address the complex...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies

The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies

Author: Laura Wright (Professor of English, Western Carolina University) ,  Emelia Quinn (Assistant Professor of World Literatures & Environmental Humanities, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781399557085
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Provides a scholarly overview of the field of vegan literary studies, traversing the relationship between literature...  Read More >>

Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination

Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination

Author: Justin Gilbert
ISBN: 9781041030096
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination explores the centrality of familiar motifs associated with Gothic literature...  Read More >>

Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices

Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices...

Author: Elham Bahmanteymouri ,  Jean Hillier (RMIT University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032743462
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice,...  Read More >>

لحظات مع مارك توين

لحظات مع مارك...

Author: Mark Twain ,  Albert Bigelow Paine
ISBN: 9789844558182
Format: Paperback
$58.05

لحظات مع مارك توين حين يتحول الضحك إلى حكمة متأخرةهل تساءلت يومًا كيف يبدو العالم بعيون عبقري ساخر؟ بعيون رجل رأى...  Read More >>

China's Anhui Province (Part 12)- Simplified Mandarin Chinese Unveiled, Characters, Words, Sentences, and Virtual Mainland Chinese Identification, Featuring Shen Fen Zheng for All Ethnicities, Complete with Pinyin, English, and HSK Level Alignment

China's Anhui Province (Part 12)- Simplified Mandarin...

Author: Linting Zhao
ISBN: 9798893124477
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Welcome to Unlock Simplified Mandarin Chinese Characters-a lively, hands-on adventure designed just for kids! Learning...  Read More >>

China's Anhui Province (Part 11)- Comprehensive Simplified Mandarin Chinese, Characters, Vocabulary, Sentences, and Virtual Mainland IDs, Showcasing Shen Fen Zheng for Diverse Ethnic Groups, with Pinyin, English, and HSK Level Integration

China's Anhui Province (Part 11)- Comprehensive Simplified...

Author: Linting Zhao
ISBN: 9798893124460
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Welcome to Unlock Simplified Mandarin Chinese Characters-a lively, hands-on adventure designed just for kids! Learning...  Read More >>

Entertaining Ambiguities: Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Entertaining Ambiguities: Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral...

Author: Ralph J. Hexter
ISBN: 9781512828542
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Entertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language...  Read More >>

The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

Author: Michael DC Drout
ISBN: 9781324093886
Format: Hardback
$57.95

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire...  Read More >>

Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe's Edges

Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe's Edges...

Author: Debarati Sanyal
ISBN: 9781531512125
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Pakistan: Appropriating the Bard in Theatres, Cinema and Academia

Shakespeare in Pakistan: Appropriating the Bard in Theatres,...

Author: Zakia Resshid Ehsen
ISBN: 9781032976471
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Shakespeare in Pakistan provides an extensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan,...  Read More >>

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature:...

Author: Ben Moore (Assistant Professor in English Literature, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781399508490
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Rethinks the relationship between architecture, literature and (in)visibility in the nineteenth-century city  Read More >>

Romantic Women’s Writing and Sexual Transgression

Romantic Women’s Writing and Sexual Transgression

Author: Kathryn Ready (Professor of English, University of Winnipeg) ,  David Sigler (Professor of English, University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781399507639
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Demonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the...  Read More >>

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction...

Author: Paweł Wojtas (Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw)
ISBN: 9781399522588
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee  Read More >>

The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary and the Form of Environment

The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description,...

Author: David Rodriguez (Adjunct Assistant Professor in English, Hofstra University)
ISBN: 9781399522939
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment...  Read More >>

The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation

The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance...

Author: Louise Geddes ,  Kathryn Vomero Santos
ISBN: 9781399524926
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  Read More >>

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality and Imagination

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality...

Author: Niall Oddy (Associate Lecturer, The Open University)
ISBN: 9781399522625
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855–1901

Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems...

Author: Ayendy Bonifacio (Assistant Professor of English, University of Toledo)
ISBN: 9781399523509
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Provides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation...  Read More >>

Hyperglossia and the Novel: The Production of (Non) Space

Hyperglossia and the Novel: The Production of (Non)...

Author: Elidio La Torre Lagares
ISBN: 9781032976228
Format: Hardback
$294.00

A radical theorization of hyperglossia as a post-narrative condition, it explores how language, identity, and space...  Read More >>

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