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Yale French Studies, Number 147: Patrick Chamoiseau: The Art of Words Without Borders

Yale French Studies, Number 147: Patrick Chamoiseau:...

Author: Thomas Trezise ,  Charly Verstraet
ISBN: 9780300280845
Format: Paperback
$124.95

An examination of interrelatedness, influence, and intention in the works of Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau...  Read More >>

Animal Lives through Five Centuries of Art and Science: Who Knows If I am Not Subject to Knowledge?

Animal Lives through Five Centuries of Art and Science:...

Author: Ruth Y.Y. Hung
ISBN: 9783032059765
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Observing the Unseen: Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China

Observing the Unseen: Curiosity and Common Knowledge...

Author: Andrew Schonebaum
ISBN: 9780295754222
Format: Hardback
$279.32

Whether through medical encyclopedias, daily-use almanacs, or novels and anecdotes, readers pursued knowledge of...  Read More >>

The Passive: A Comparative Linguistic Analysis

The Passive: A Comparative Linguistic Analysis

Author: Anna Siewierska
ISBN: 9781032767932
Format: Paperback
$82.77

First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed...  Read More >>

The March for Hope

The March for Hope

Author: Valerie Bolling ,  Monica Mikai
ISBN: 9781324053903
Format: Hardback
$31.95

In this uplifting picture book, a young Black girl’s identities converge at the Women’s March, helping her find...  Read More >>

The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain

The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early...

Author: Mary E. Barnard ,  Frederick A. de Armas
ISBN: 9781487565336
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This book investigates new ways in which writers and artists of early modern Spain conceived of space through the...  Read More >>

Writing Timbuktu: The Book in West African History

Writing Timbuktu: The Book in West African History

Author: Shamil Jeppie
ISBN: 9780691273853
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa. Printed books did not reach West Africa...  Read More >>

Jahan Malek Khatun: The Ghazal as Survival

Jahan Malek Khatun: The Ghazal as Survival

Author: Sheema Kalbasi
ISBN: 9781997742234
Format: Paperback
$39.60

This book presents the first extensive English study and translation of the poetry of Jahan Malek Khatun, a fourteenth-century...  Read More >>

Transmedial Resonance: The Acoustic Afterlives of Italo Calvino

Transmedial Resonance: The Acoustic Afterlives of Italo...

Author: Robert A. Rushing
ISBN: 9781531512682
Format: Hardback
$243.00

Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern...  Read More >>

At the Margins of Nihilism: Deconstruction and Social Death

At the Margins of Nihilism: Deconstruction and Social...

Author: John E. Drabinski
ISBN: 9781531512361
Format: Hardback
$243.00

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland

Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in...

Author: Katherine M. Huber
ISBN: 9780813954394
Format: Paperback
$68.99

The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland's past and future Ireland was Britain's first colony and its first...  Read More >>

Sneaking Into Print: Mouvance and Narrative Culture in Spain C. 1500

Sneaking Into Print: Mouvance and Narrative Culture...

Author: Ignacio Navarrete
ISBN: 9781487546366
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Sneaking into Print explores how early printing technology shaped a distinct ""narrative culture"" in Spain.  Read More >>

Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think

Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think

Author: Ainehi Edoro
ISBN: 9780231220743
Format: Hardback
$232.95

This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to...  Read More >>

August Wilson in Context

August Wilson in Context

Author: Khalid Y. Long (Howard University, Washington DC) ,  Isaiah Matthew Wooden (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009363242
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights,...  Read More >>

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine:...

Author: Erich Neumann ,  Ralph Manheim
ISBN: 9780691279275
Format: Hardback
$62.99

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

The Green Dialogues: Ecocritical Pathways to Children’s Literature in Education

The Green Dialogues: Ecocritical Pathways to Children’s...

Author: Marnie Campagnaro ,  Lea Ferrari
ISBN: 9783032104175
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This open access book offers an array of educational perspectives aimed at fostering inclusive, multicultural, critical,...  Read More >>

Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland

Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in...

Author: Katherine M. Huber
ISBN: 9780813954387
Format: Hardback
$231.00

The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland's past and future Ireland was Britain's first colony and its first...  Read More >>

Five Economies of World Literature

Five Economies of World Literature

Author: Sandor Hites (Institute of Literary Studies)
ISBN: 9781009654937
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Breaks new ground in the study of world literature by analysing the genesis of this concept in the context of early...  Read More >>

The Eternal Moment: Marcel Proust And The Architecture of Memory

The Eternal Moment: Marcel Proust And The Architecture...

Author: Hamon de Quillan ,  Hichem Karoui
ISBN: 9781787956001
Format: Paperback
$124.05

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the great monuments of modern literature-admired, imitated, and...  Read More >>

The Eternal Moment: Marcel Proust And The Architecture of Memory

The Eternal Moment: Marcel Proust And The Architecture...

Author: Hamon de Quillan ,  Hichem Karoui
ISBN: 9781787955981
Format: Hardback
$139.89

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the great monuments of modern literature-admired, imitated, and...  Read More >>

Migrations in Irish Society and Literature: New Worlds, New Words

Migrations in Irish Society and Literature: New Worlds,...

Author: Marie Mianowski ,  Véronique Molinari
ISBN: 9783032104137
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book addresses the issue of migration to and from Ireland since the 17th-18th century and examines the dynamics...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World's Greatest Writer

Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights...

Author: Darren Freebury-Jones
ISBN: 9781526177346
Format: Paperback
$32.99

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

Late Theory: Fredric Jameson, or the Persistence of Reading

Late Theory: Fredric Jameson, or the Persistence of...

Author: Phillip E. Wegner
ISBN: 9781517920524
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans...

Author: Dan Turello
ISBN: 9780231220163
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

Forced by Circumstance: Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024)

Forced by Circumstance: Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024)...

Author: Norma Alarcn ,  Norma E. Cant
ISBN: 9781951874100
Format: Paperback
$57.99

""Forced by Circumstance gathers foundational essays by, and interviews with, Norma Alarcon, noted scholar of Chicana/o,...  Read More >>

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