Literature: history & criticism books

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Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524339
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed: Myth, Metonymy and the Unknowing Subject

Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed: Myth, Metonymy and the...

Author: Hamid Dabashi (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781399517959
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This is the story of Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed, an exploration of when and where ancient myths become metonymic...  Read More >>

Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture

Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British...

Author: Isabelle Hesse (Senior Lecturer in Department of English, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781399523684
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Examines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987....  Read More >>

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and...

Author: C. Ceyhun Arslan (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Koç University)
ISBN: 9781399525831
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions.  Read More >>

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing,...

Author: Louis Kirk McAuley (Associate Professor in the Department of English, Washington State University)
ISBN: 9781399527156
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of...

Author: Arnab Dutta Roy ,  Paul Ugor
ISBN: 9781496242648
Format: Hardback
$130.90

Tracing the linkages between the postcolonial bildungsroman and spatial discourses, this volume emphasizes three...  Read More >>

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Author: Petra Johana Poncarová (Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781399501200
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores Derick Thomson's far-reaching influence on the 20th-century revival of Scottish Gaelic  Read More >>

Hydropoetics: An Ecocritical Perspective on Human-Water Relationships in Eastern European Arts

Hydropoetics: An Ecocritical Perspective on Human-Water...

Author: Jana Rogoff ,  Susanne Frank
ISBN: 9783837673579
Format: Paperback
$90.95

A study of human-water-power relationships in Eastern European cultures: an important contribution to the vibrant...  Read More >>

Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe: Siegfried Von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen

Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Martyn Housden
ISBN: 9781836953142
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the impact of migration on the self-understanding...  Read More >>

Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes: Languages of Invention

Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes:...

Author: A. J. Carruthers (Associate Professor in the English Department, Nanjing University)
ISBN: 9781399526838
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Examines Australian avant-garde poetry from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries  Read More >>

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524292
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility...

Author: Joel Duncan
ISBN: 9780813954028
Format: Hardback
$266.00

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma

The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma...

Author: Jehanne Dubrow
ISBN: 9780826368645
Format: Paperback
$46.99

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Urdu Adab ke Roshan Baab: (Bright chapters of Urdu literature, Essays)

Urdu Adab ke Roshan Baab: (Bright chapters of Urdu literature,...

Author: Mukarram Niyaz
ISBN: 9789369082674
Format: Paperback
$71.25

""Urdu Adab ke Roshan Baab"" gathers thirteen substantial essays that illuminate key moments and figures in Urdu...  Read More >>

The Subversive Seventies in Tehran: Romancing Revolutions

The Subversive Seventies in Tehran: Romancing Revolutions...

Author: Hamid Dabashi (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781399542852
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Provides a first-hand account of the revolutionary politics and culture of 1970s Tehran.  Read More >>

Directorless Shakespeare: Transformations through collective Embodied Literary Criticism

Directorless Shakespeare: Transformations through collective...

Author: Elena M. Pellone
ISBN: 9781032771885
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare’s theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural...  Read More >>

Ancient Secrets Wisdom: Notes 2025

Ancient Secrets Wisdom: Notes 2025

Author: Yehoshua Bin-Nun
ISBN: 9798233565601
Format: Paperback
$28.06

ABOUT THE BOOK This book has an absolute lack of literary and academic value but it can be a diamond for those...  Read More >>

Urdu Adab - Tanqeedi o Tahqeeqi Mutale'ay: (Urdu Literature: Critical and Research Studies)

Urdu Adab - Tanqeedi o Tahqeeqi Mutale'ay: (Urdu Literature:...

Author: Mukarram Niyaz
ISBN: 9789369089031
Format: Paperback
$68.61

""Urdu Adab: Tanqeedi o Tahqeeqi Mutale'ay"" (Urdu Literature: Critical and Research Studies) brings together thirteen...  Read More >>

Indigenous Affinities: Toward Solidarity Across the Global South

Indigenous Affinities: Toward Solidarity Across the...

Author: Amal Eqeiq
ISBN: 9781531510275
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Inspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities examines...  Read More >>

Killer Bodies: The Rise and Fall of ""Bad Girl"" Comics

Killer Bodies: The Rise and Fall of ""Bad Girl"" Comics...

Author: Joseph Crawford
ISBN: 9781978841970
Format: Hardback
$243.10

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The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí, Volume II: English Translation of Books 1 and 2

The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí, Volume II: English...

Author: Reynold A Nicholson ,  Alan Williams
ISBN: 9781399559997
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Volume 2 of Reynold A. Nicholson's 8-volume authoritative translation and edition of Rm's magnum opus reissued...  Read More >>

The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film, 1959–1973

The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and...

Author: Sophie A. Jones (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Gender Studies, University of Strathclyde)
ISBN: 9781474433303
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Develops a new approach to the politics of reproduction in literature and film.  Read More >>

William Barnes, Dialect Poems in the Dorset County Chronicle

William Barnes, Dialect Poems in the Dorset County Chronicle...

Author: T. L. Burton (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Adelaide) ,  Emma Mason (Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781474401050
Format: Hardback
$230.00

A scholarly edition of William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect as published in the Dorset County...  Read More >>

The American Presidency in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

The American Presidency in Twenty-First-Century Fiction...

Author: Alexandra Lawrie (Senior Lecturer in English Literature_x000D_, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781399538923
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how post-war presidential history is portrayed in contemporary American novels.  Read More >>

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