Literature: history & criticism books

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Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature

Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature...

Author: Jill Goad
ISBN: 9781666969986
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Fantastic Creatures in Italian Literature: From the Age of Dante to Modernity

Fantastic Creatures in Italian Literature: From the...

Author: Giulia M. Cipriani ,  Paolo Rigo
ISBN: 9781666956740
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migration: New Poetics and Perspectives

Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migration: New Poetics...

Author: Annamaria Bianco ,  Baian Rayhanova
ISBN: 9780755652549
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores various aspects of Arabic literature of migration published over the past three decades, focusing on the...  Read More >>

Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema: Trash, Horror, and the Hemispheric Sixties

Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema: Trash, Horror, and...

Author: Antonio Barrenechea
ISBN: 9781666948868
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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Jaja's African Hair Braiding

Jaja's African Hair Braiding

Author: Jocelyn Bioh
ISBN: 9781350645813
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Welcome to Jaja’s! Written by award-winning playwright Jocelyn Bioh, this new comedy takes us into a bustling Harlem...  Read More >>

Pablo Neruda in Context

Pablo Neruda in Context

Author: Ignacio López-Calvo (University of California Merced)
ISBN: 9781009635424
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Contextualizes Pablo Neruda's opus by including 42 essays focusing on his journeys, the Cold War, and how literary...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Author: Allan Hepburn (McGill University, Montréal)
ISBN: 9781009536004
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) ,  Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009500159
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

Poison and the Popular Imagination: Representations, Iconographies, and Meanings in Media and Culture

Poison and the Popular Imagination: Representations,...

Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell
ISBN: 9781666946734
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors demonstrate how discourses of poison in popular culture...  Read More >>

Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing...

Author: Lane Glisson
ISBN: 9781666950519
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of variations on the theme of disappearance in contemporary women's writing  Read More >>

The Political Dimension of Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen Lawn

The Political Dimension of Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen...

Author: Germán Asensio Peral
ISBN: 9783032187970
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book meticulously analyzes Cruiskeen Lawn, a popular column published in The Irish Times by Irish writer Myles...  Read More >>

Memes and Meaning: Presence and Transcendence in Literature

Memes and Meaning: Presence and Transcendence in Literature...

Author: Patrycja Austin ,  Simon Perry
ISBN: 9781041192312
Format: Hardback
$144.87

Drawing from literature, philosophy, theology, and cultural critique, this short and accessible book challenges...  Read More >>

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Author: Sharon N. Tran
ISBN: 9781517919863
Format: Paperback
$49.99

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's borrowed feathers: How early modern playwrights shaped the world's greatest writer

Shakespeare's borrowed feathers: How early modern playwrights...

Author: Darren Freebury-Jones
ISBN: 9781526177346
Format: Paperback
$32.99

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

The Sign of the Swan: How French Symbolist Poetry Re-envisions Reality

The Sign of the Swan: How French Symbolist Poetry Re-envisions...

Author: William Franke
ISBN: 9781839999321
Format: Paperback
$41.98

This scholarly monograph is an original philosophical reflection on poetics, elucidating the metaphysical and mystical...  Read More >>

Hineni - In Sarah's Tent

Hineni - In Sarah's Tent

Author: Laurie S Sherman
ISBN: 9798295620584
Format: Paperback
$29.01

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

Moving Archives

Moving Archives

Author: Linda M. Morra
ISBN: 9781771127134
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Grounds itself in the critical trajectory related to what Sara Ahmed calls affective economies to offer fresh insights...  Read More >>

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans...

Author: Dan Turello
ISBN: 9780231220163
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

Resistance in the ‘Oppressor’s Tongue’: English-Language Welsh Writers and Spanish-Language Catalan Writers

Resistance in the ‘Oppressor’s Tongue’: English-Language...

Author: Catriona Coutts
ISBN: 9781837723423
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This volume presents acomparison of Welsh writing in English and Catalan writing inSpanish, andanalysesthe work...  Read More >>

Lola the Interpreter

Lola the Interpreter

Author: Lyn Hejinian
ISBN: 9780819501974
Format: Paperback
$50.03

""A blend of inquisitive narrative, philosophy, literary theory, and experimental lyricism""-- Provided by publisher....  Read More >>

Signal Flow

Signal Flow

Author: William Fuller
ISBN: 9798991889407
Format: Paperback
$50.03

A resonant new collection from the ""Secrecy Officer of American Poetry"" (J.H. Prynne) ""With its uncanny ability...  Read More >>

The Midnight Work

The Midnight Work

Author: Jennifer Moxley
ISBN: 9798985787498
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work is a meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated...  Read More >>

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