Literature: history & criticism books

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Kwame Nkrumah's Quest for Restoration: Nkrumaism and Pan-Africanism in Exile

Kwame Nkrumah's Quest for Restoration: Nkrumaism and...

Author: Tunde Adeleke (Iowa State University)
ISBN: 9781666972382
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book challenges existing and popular understandings of Kwame Nkrumah's ideas and struggles.  Read More >>

Aeschylus, Character, and the Yoke of Necessity

Aeschylus, Character, and the Yoke of Necessity

Author: Mark Ringer
ISBN: 9781666939088
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy and the Dynamics of Language

The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy...

Author: Rein Raud
ISBN: 9781793646606
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Discusses the relations between linguistic structures and the practice of philosophizing—with examples from across...  Read More >>

Errant Natures and Wayward Bodies in Late-Victorian Speculative Fiction

Errant Natures and Wayward Bodies in Late-Victorian...

Author: Adrian Tait
ISBN: 9781666945058
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary...  Read More >>

A Study of Intertextuality in Mohja Kahf’s ""E-Mails from Scheherazad"": The ""Odalisque” Gazes Back

A Study of Intertextuality in Mohja Kahf’s ""E-Mails...

Author: Hamida Riahi
ISBN: 9781666969894
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book examines Mohja Kahf’s use of parody and allusion in E-mails from Scheherazad to deconstruct Orientalist...  Read More >>

Science Fiction Language in Action: Scientologese

Science Fiction Language in Action: Scientologese

Author: Jennifer Kelso Farrell
ISBN: 9781666949971
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Examining the works of science fiction authors such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, and Samuel...  Read More >>

Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual

Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual

Author: Pierre d'Alancaisez ,  Amir Naaman
ISBN: 9781068450709
Format: Paperback
$63.36

What happened to homosexuality in the transition from gay to queer? Inversion examines the cultural and political...  Read More >>

Kuolema Venetsiassa

Kuolema Venetsiassa

Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9789358485264
Format: Paperback
$15.81

Thomas Manns Kuolema Venetsiassa ist eine tiefgründige Erzählung über Schönheit, Begehren und den unausweichlichen...  Read More >>

Technologies for the Revolution: The Czech Avant-Garde in Print

Technologies for the Revolution: The Czech Avant-Garde...

Author: Meghan Forbes
ISBN: 9788024660509
Format: Paperback
$90.95

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The Textual Effects of David Walker's ""Appeal"": Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851

The Textual Effects of David Walker's ""Appeal"": Print-Based...

Author: Marcy J. Dinius
ISBN: 9781512828801
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Historians and literary historians alike recognize David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829-1830)...  Read More >>

Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense

Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense...

Author: Elliott Kalan
ISBN: 9780226829937
Format: Hardback
$190.95

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Kuolema Venetsiassa

Kuolema Venetsiassa

Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9789358488388
Format: Hardback
$34.29

Thomas Manns Kuolema Venetsiassa ist eine tiefgründige Erzählung über Schönheit, Begehren und den unausweichlichen...  Read More >>

Worlds of Wonder: Celebrating the Great Classics of Children’s Literature

Worlds of Wonder: Celebrating the Great Classics of...

Author: Daniel Hahn
ISBN: 9780522881998
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Leave the world behind and join some of the greatest children’s writers on a journey through human imagination in...  Read More >>

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida

Author: Stephen Purcell
ISBN: 9781526103574
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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An Intellectual Against Fascism: Selected Writings

An Intellectual Against Fascism: Selected Writings

Author: Piero Gobetti ,  Mimmo Cangiano
ISBN: 9781487560478
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts

My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts

Author: Luis Rechani Agrait ,  William Carlos Williams
ISBN: 9781961056114
Format: Paperback
$39.95

William Carlos Williams's ""lost"" translation of Luis Rechani Agrait's masterpiece. William Carlos Williams's...  Read More >>

Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism

Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism...

Author: Vanesa Miseres
ISBN: 9781487509231
Format: Hardback
$125.00

Covering the post-independence era to World War II, Gender Battles uncovers Latin American women writers and activists'...  Read More >>

Textile Shakespeare

Textile Shakespeare

Author: Hester Lees-Jeffries
ISBN: 9780198861133
Format: Hardback
$70.95

Textile Shakespeare explores the centrality of textiles to life in early modern England. Cloth and fabric displayed...  Read More >>

Literature and Epistemic Injustice: Power and Resistance in the Contemporary Novel

Literature and Epistemic Injustice: Power and Resistance...

Author: Sarah Colvin (Jesus College Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781032649245
Format: Hardback
$305.00

A vital resource for anyone interested in literature and politics, this is the first in-depth study of epistemic...  Read More >>

Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italy's Renaissance

Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italy's Renaissance

Author: Guylian Nemegeer
ISBN: 9783032053688
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Deciphering

Deciphering

Author: Curious Directive (Norfolk)
ISBN: 9781350606388
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Being a kid is full of things that don’t make sense, Elise. We’re born into something that started ages ago and...  Read More >>

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