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Book Banning in 21st-Century America

Book Banning in 21st-Century America

Author: Emily J. M. Knox (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9781538195079
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Based on 25 contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States, this book...  Read More >>

Arboreal Modernism and the Woodcut Book

Arboreal Modernism and the Woodcut Book

Author: Olivia Badoi
ISBN: 9783032108159
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials...  Read More >>

Bhagabata Charcha

Bhagabata Charcha

Author: Kalpataru Nayak
ISBN: 9781645608202
Format: Paperback
$42.24

ଭାଗବତ ହେଉଛି ଭାବର ବିଷୟ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାବେ ଏପରି କୌଣସି ବ୍ୟକ୍ତି ନାହିଁ ଯେ ଭାଗବତ ବିଷୟରେ ଜାଣିନାହିଁ । ଶିକ୍ଷିତ ଅଶିକ୍ଷିତ ନିର୍ବିଶେଷରେ...  Read More >>

Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Author: Chris Carey (University College London) ,  Herodotus
ISBN: 9780521474153
Format: Hardback
$409.20

Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Author: Kent Lehnhof (Chapman University, California)
ISBN: 9781009613873
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the...  Read More >>

A Hundred Flowers: How Literature Shaped Maoism

A Hundred Flowers: How Literature Shaped Maoism

Author: Dayton Lekner (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
ISBN: 9781009600538
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Drawing on archival, published, and literary sources, Dayton Lekner tells the story of the Hundred Flowers campaign...  Read More >>

The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting, 1750–1850

The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting,...

Author: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781009599986
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts,...  Read More >>

Translating His-stories

Translating His-stories

Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca)
ISBN: 9781009673174
Format: Hardback
$142.31

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Author: Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University)
ISBN: 9781009548212
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the Era of Neoliberalism, 1981-1984

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the...

Author: José Antonio Arellano (United States Air Force Academy)
ISBN: 9781009532938
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

Author: Dr Penny Bradshaw (Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Cumbria, UK)
ISBN: 9781350453357
Format: Hardback
$100.00

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding...  Read More >>

The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline, and Scale

The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline,...

Author: Professor or Dr. Mark Lussier (Arizona State University, USA) ,  Dr. or Prof. Richard C. Sha (American University, Washington D.C., USA)
ISBN: 9798765125281
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection shows how transformative the study of rhythm can be across the humanities...  Read More >>

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics...

Author: Nick Katsiadas ,  Carl Sell
ISBN: 9781666971484
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, connecting Tolkien...  Read More >>

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture: Implicit Theology, Secular Spirituality, and Speculative Fiction

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture:...

Author: Karen Trimble Alliaume ,  Maryellen Davis Collett
ISBN: 9781666934854
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Employing theoretical lenses of implicit theology and secular spirituality, this book blurs the boundaries between...  Read More >>

The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750-1900

The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany,...

Author: Professor Mary Helen Dupree (Georgetown University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765158265
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Examines the practice of literary declamation in German literature and its place alongside print culture in the...  Read More >>

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Author: Tamara Hundorova ,  Tanya Savchynska
ISBN: 9798897831166
Format: Hardback
$125.00

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History

Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe,...

Author: Gayle Rogers ,  Svetlana Smolenskaya
ISBN: 9798887199825
Format: Hardback
$60.00

В своей книге Гейл Роджерс реконструирует межкультурные связи двух ключевых модернистских движений — британского...  Read More >>

The Death Drive: Philosophy, Literature, Theory

The Death Drive: Philosophy, Literature, Theory

Author: Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Texas A&M University-Victoria, USA) ,  Professor Paul Allen Miller (Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781350465671
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary...  Read More >>

Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta

Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta

Author: Dr George W. M. Harrison (Carleton University, Canada) ,  Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews UK)
ISBN: 9781350205659
Format: Hardback
$140.00

An accessible introduction to the Roman tragedy Hercules on Oeta with chapters on its contexts, key themes and reception....  Read More >>

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