Literature: history & criticism books

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On Memoir: An A-Z of Life Writing

On Memoir: An A-Z of Life Writing

Author: Blake Morrison
ISBN: 9780008827601
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A delightful compendium of musings from the master of life writing, the much-loved Blake Morrison, for those who...  Read More >>

Heart of A Heroine: Knowing your identity and destiny in Christ by understanding yourself

Heart of A Heroine: Knowing your identity and destiny...

Author: Nancy Albao
ISBN: 9781967362677
Format: Hardback
$50.13

This book invites you to see your life as part of God's grand narrative-a story He is writing about Himself, with...  Read More >>

Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century

Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth...

Author: Maïa Hruska
ISBN: 9780008768614
Format: Hardback
$34.99

‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

News Machines: The Systems of Daily Journalism in Britain, 1785–1885

News Machines: The Systems of Daily Journalism in Britain,...

Author: Dallas Liddle (Professor of English, Professor of English, Augsburg University)
ISBN: 9780198994831
Format: Hardback
$191.95

News Machines rewrites the history of nineteenth-century daily newspapers using theories developed for the study...  Read More >>

If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in...

Author: Daniel Hahn
ISBN: 9781805301622
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A fascinating study into the world of translation and Shakespeare from the award-winning translator Daniel Hahn...  Read More >>

Jacques-Louis David's drawings: Bodies in action

Jacques-Louis David's drawings: Bodies in action

Author: Tamar Mayer
ISBN: 9781836245711
Format: Paperback
$219.94

This book examines the archetypical and best-known neoclassical painter in France from a different perspective,...  Read More >>

On Memoir: An A-Z of Life Writing

On Memoir: An A-Z of Life Writing

Author: Blake Morrison
ISBN: 9780008760915
Format: Hardback
$42.99

A delightful compendium of musings from the master of life writing, the much-loved Blake Morrison, for those who...  Read More >>

Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment

Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment...

Author: Charles Taylor
ISBN: 9780674303591
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy...  Read More >>

Ecology and Climate in Theatre and Australian Performance

Ecology and Climate in Theatre and Australian Performance...

Author: Peta Tait (La Trobe University, Victoria) ,  Denise Varney (University of Melbourne)
ISBN: 9781009618267
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places Australian theatre...  Read More >>

Contesting Translation: Studies in Honour of Mona Baker

Contesting Translation: Studies in Honour of Mona Baker...

Author: Jan Buts ,  Sue-Ann Harding (Hamid Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
ISBN: 9781032871424
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Contesting Translation honors Professor Mona Baker with eleven chapters exploring translation across contexts and...  Read More >>

Once a Man

Once a Man

Author: Rick Moss
ISBN: 9781644285350
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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(In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and Dependency

(In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Pia Wiegmink ,  Jennifer Leetsch
ISBN: 9781041236504
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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Opera Fever

Opera Fever

Author: Chelsey Minnis
ISBN: 9798891060401
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The poems in Chelsey Minnis's Opera Fever read like a dangerous bodice-ripper, glamorous and haunted.From the covid...  Read More >>

Histories in Common: Native American Literatures, Extra Archives, and the Indigenous Transpacific

Histories in Common: Native American Literatures, Extra...

Author: Alyssa A. Hunziker
ISBN: 9781469695662
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and...  Read More >>

Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser

Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser...

Author: Catherine Gander ,  Stefania Heim
ISBN: 9781959000662
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This groundbreaking collection gathers essays, poems, and hybrid...  Read More >>

Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes, and Iconoclastic Essays

Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes,...

Author: David Brin
ISBN: 9798337205830
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Collected literary and film criticism and more-now revised and updated with new material-from an award-winning,...  Read More >>

Imaginator Magazine: Folk Horror Special Edition Volume 2

Imaginator Magazine: Folk Horror Special Edition Volume...

Author: Ken Miller ,  Ian Ogilvy
ISBN: 9781068444630
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Incredible interviews with film directors and creature FX creatives, a chat with author Adam Nevill, and a horde...  Read More >>

The Book of Hours

The Book of Hours

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke ,  Edward Snow (Rice University)
ISBN: 9781324123460
Format: Paperback
$31.95

A gorgeous new translation of one of the strongest inaugural works in twentieth century poetry  Read More >>

Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography

Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography

Author: Gary Scharnhorst
ISBN: 9780826369161
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  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: 9781477333532
Format: Paperback
$80.99

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

Renaut de Bâgé, 'Le Bel Inconnu': ('Li Biaus Descouneüs'; 'The Fair Unknown')

Renaut de Bâgé, 'Le Bel Inconnu': ('Li Biaus Descouneüs';...

Author: Karen L Fresco
ISBN: 9780367529307
Format: Paperback
$87.95

Originally published in 1992, Le Bel Inconnu edited and with an introduction by Karen Fresco, presents on facing...  Read More >>

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