Literature: history & criticism books

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Terence: Eunuchus

Terence: Eunuchus

Author: Dr. Gesine Manuwald (Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350344051
Format: Hardback
$140.00

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil

Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil

Author: Ron Ferguson ,  Gary McNair (Author)
ISBN: 9781350663749
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Complexities of Anger: Literary and Cultural Perspectives

Complexities of Anger: Literary and Cultural Perspectives...

Author: Professor or Dr. Aytül Özüm (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
ISBN: 9798765132258
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Examines a variety of representations and forms of anger in 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone literature to show...  Read More >>

Nostalgia, Fantasy, and the Futures of Masculinity

Nostalgia, Fantasy, and the Futures of Masculinity

Author: Timothy Richardson
ISBN: 9783032239204
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Chinese HSK Test Level 7-9 Preparation Guide (Part 14)-A Self-Study Guide for Beginners to Learn Mandarin Chinese Characters, Vocabulary, Sentences, Essays, and Stories with Pinyin and Simplified Characters

Chinese HSK Test Level 7-9 Preparation Guide (Part 14)-A...

Author: Jingjing Wang
ISBN: 9798895845158
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Welcome to the ""Chinese HSK Test Level 7-9 Preparation Guide,"" a self-study resource designed for learners ready...  Read More >>

Sugarcoated Ethics: Children's Literature and Atlantic Enslavement

Sugarcoated Ethics: Children's Literature and Atlantic...

Author: Courtney Weikle-Mills (University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9781421454450
Format: Paperback
$125.00

Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy. What ethical lessons...  Read More >>

Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language

Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language

Author: Julia Kristeva
ISBN: 9780231203333
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it...  Read More >>

How Not to Be Human: The Inhumanist Philosophy of Robinson Jeffers

How Not to Be Human: The Inhumanist Philosophy of Robinson...

Author: Matthew Calarco
ISBN: 9781839999475
Format: Paperback
$50.00

This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Unstable Homes: Fatherhood and Travel in Gaskell’s Short Stories

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Unstable Homes: Fatherhood and Travel...

Author: Carolyn Lambert
ISBN: 9783032259721
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book examines apparently dichotomous aspects of Gaskell’s short stories: her failed fathers and her travel...  Read More >>

Henry IV

Henry IV

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781397670717
Format: Paperback
$100.29

Henry IV by William Shakespeare sets against the turbulent reign of England's Lancastrian king, exploring the fragile...  Read More >>

The Influence of Virgil on Roman Ethical Thought

The Influence of Virgil on Roman Ethical Thought

Author: Alban Pope
ISBN: 9798233467585
Format: Paperback
$38.44

The study of Roman ethical thought has long been shaped by the voices of philosophers, statesmen, and historians,...  Read More >>

Pastoral Ethics in the Virgil's Eclogues

Pastoral Ethics in the Virgil's Eclogues

Author: Alban Pope
ISBN: 9798235000551
Format: Paperback
$38.44

Pastoral poetry has long been associated with simplicity, serenity, and the imagined purity of rural life, yet Virgil's...  Read More >>

Zapiski o braku gwarancji. O obojętności, która nie wygląda jak obojętnośc

Zapiski o braku gwarancji. O obojętności,...

Author: Wieslaw Falkowski
ISBN: 9798235915596
Format: Paperback
$34.29

W świecie bez gwarancji najlatwiej jest zostac czlowiekiem poprawnym. Wyważonym. Umiarkowanym. Takim, który ""rozumie...  Read More >>

El Libro de los Brutos

El Libro de los Brutos

Author: Tito Lugo, MD
ISBN: 9798295899898
Format: Paperback
$63.33

El problema no es que nadie piense. Es que todos gritan. El Libro de los Brutos no retrata villanos. Retrata creyentes...  Read More >>

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis...

Author: Robert A. Kaster (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780198891925
Format: Hardback
$94.95

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader: Lay Piety and Literature in Late Medieval England

Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader: Lay Piety and Literature...

Author: Spencer Strub
ISBN: 9781512829389
Format: Hardback
$150.00

An investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts

Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal...

Author: Sean Keilen
ISBN: 9780691272634
Format: Hardback
$39.99

What Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change. Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For?: Poems

Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For?: Poems...

Author: Donna Masini (Hunter College)
ISBN: 9781324124191
Format: Hardback
$46.95

Deeply witty, attuned to the quotidian, these are necessary poems alive to the awareness of our mortality.  Read More >>

A General Narratology

A General Narratology

Author: Yiheng Zhao
ISBN: 9789819580675
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book attempts to provide a basic theory for all narratives, in order to shake narratology off its age-long...  Read More >>

CARE

CARE

Author: Alexander Zeldin
ISBN: 9781350646377
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A life affirming play about the elusive connection between loss and rebirth.  Read More >>

Voices of Change: Progressive Poetry and Cultural Resistance in India

Voices of Change: Progressive Poetry and Cultural Resistance...

Author: Akshaya Kumar ,  Amandeep Kaur
ISBN: 9789819519941
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This volume compiles critical essays that explore the evolution of progressive poetry in India from the 1920s onwards....  Read More >>

Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s...

Author: Guy Cuthbertson
ISBN: 9780300266375
Format: Hardback
$41.95

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction in East Asia: Rethinking the Human

Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction in East Asia: Rethinking...

Author: Xinmin Liu ,  Hua Li
ISBN: 9783032119865
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and...  Read More >>

Constructing Childhood; Power, Subjectivity, and the Institution of Childhood in the Modern World

Constructing Childhood; Power, Subjectivity, and the...

Author: Behnaz Amani
ISBN: 9780985374853
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Childhood is often seen as a natural and innocent stage of life. This book challenges that view, arguing that childhood...  Read More >>

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