Literature: history & criticism books

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A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938

A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish...

Author: Aya Elyada
ISBN: 9781503645998
Format: Hardback
$173.00

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

Our Prediction

Our Prediction

Author: Daniel Tiffany
ISBN: 9781531513139
Format: Paperback
$43.99

An intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates The poems of Our Prediction...  Read More >>

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other...

Author: José A. de la Garza Valenzuela
ISBN: 9781477333525
Format: Hardback
$243.00

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

The Chronicles of Japan: Volume I: Age of the Gods and Legendary Sovereigns

The Chronicles of Japan: Volume I: Age of the Gods and...

Author: Matthieu Felt (Associate Professor of Japanese, Associate Professor of Japanese, University of Florida)
ISBN: 9780197606223
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Written around 720 CE, The Chronicles of Japan, or The Nihon Shoki is the oldest official history of the Japanese...  Read More >>

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

Author: Andrew Blauner
ISBN: 9780691242453
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A collection of colourful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five...  Read More >>

Reconstructing Eden: A Southern Bastard’s Lyric Journey

Reconstructing Eden: A Southern Bastard’s Lyric Journey...

Author: Indigo Moor
ISBN: 9781960327185
Format: Paperback
$29.95

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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Author: Frank O'Hara ,  Donald Allen
ISBN: 9780520430136
Format: Paperback
$40.95

Available for the first time in paperback, ""The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara"" reflects the poet's growth as...  Read More >>

Duels

Duels

Author: Néhémy Dahomey ,  Nathan H. Dize
ISBN: 9781803095592
Format: Hardback
$41.95

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The Vineyard: A Poem

The Vineyard: A Poem

Author: Jonathan Galassi
ISBN: 9780593803790
Format: Hardback
$60.00

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Pierre Herbart, son frère Léon, dit Loulou (1898-1949), dit Gontran de Jumièges et quelques autres

Pierre Herbart, son frère Léon, dit Loulou (1898-1949),...

Author: Alain Moreews
ISBN: 9782336573687
Format: Paperback
$83.90

C'est à Paris que l'écrivain Pierre Herbart (1903-1974), s'est formé professionnellement. Revenu d'un voyage au...  Read More >>

Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality

Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic...

Author: Dr Feras Alkabani (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9780755655823
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays

Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays

Author: Linda Dryden (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) ,  Professor Robert Hampson, FEA FRSA (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350440883
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation

Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation...

Author: Prof Pam Morris ,  Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England)
ISBN: 9781350434097
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas: Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish Languages and Literatures

Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas: Spanglish, Portuñol,...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Remy Attig (Bowling Green Statue University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765110997
Format: Paperback
$59.99

An examination of Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish literatures that builds on sociolinguistic understandings...  Read More >>

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020...

Author: Professor or Dr. Oliver Haslam (Harlaxton College, University of Evansville, UK)
ISBN: 9798765109403
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English

The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English...

Author: Marian C. Bean
ISBN: 9781041240938
Format: Hardback
$232.85

First published in 1983, The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English tests theories of word order change...  Read More >>

Mythes et réalités de l'imaginaire colonial français au XIXe siècle

Mythes et réalités de l'imaginaire colonial français...

Author: Hédia Khadhar
ISBN: 9782336562803
Format: Paperback
$49.90

Cet ouvrage met sur le même plan Histoire et Littérature. La mise en perspective de l'histoire coloniale permet...  Read More >>

Commentary on Plotinus

Commentary on Plotinus

Author: Marsilio Ficino ,  Stephen Gersh
ISBN: 9780674303218
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation...  Read More >>

Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child

Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The...

Author: Kristine Moruzi (Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University)
ISBN: 9781399521369
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Uncovers the role of children's periodicals in the development of charitable ideals for children between 18401930...  Read More >>

On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

Author: David P. Rando (Professor of English, Trinity University, Texas)
ISBN: 9781399538060
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices

Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in...

Author: J.R. (Tim) Struthers ,  Ailsa Cox (Emerita Professor of Short Fiction, Edge Hill University)
ISBN: 9781399534536
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read,...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence

Author: John Peters (University Distinguished Research Professor, University of North Texas)
ISBN: 9781399535861
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

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