Literature: history & criticism books

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The Jersey Slide

The Jersey Slide

Author: Danny Shot
ISBN: 9781960327147
Format: Paperback
$29.95

An irreverent and unapologetically Jersey meditation on friendship, family, aging, and gentrification. In The...  Read More >>

What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures

What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing,...

Author: Amos Oz
ISBN: 9780691230276
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Translation of: Mi-mah °asui ha-tapuaòh.  Read More >>

Hither Shore 21: Tolkien und seine Herausgeber: innen

Hither Shore 21: Tolkien und seine Herausgeber: innen...

Author: Thomas Fornet-Ponse ,  Thomas Honegger
ISBN: 9783910869172
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Hither Shore, das wissenschaftliche Jahrbuch der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. (DTG), dokumentiert zum einen...  Read More >>

Ali Sardar Jafri ka Qalam: (Literary Essays by Ali Sardar Jafri)

Ali Sardar Jafri ka Qalam: (Literary Essays by Ali Sardar...

Author: Syed Hyderabadi
ISBN: 9789369086382
Format: Paperback
$81.81

Ali Sardar Jafri is a great poet, short story writer, thinker and critic. He never presented himself as a critic,...  Read More >>

Germania By Tacitus: The Reich's Sacred Scroll-Himmler And The SS Search for the Codex Aesinas

Germania By Tacitus: The Reich's Sacred Scroll-Himmler...

Author: Arthur Vance Sterling
ISBN: 9798232018870
Format: Paperback
$52.77

What if a single ancient text could ignite a nation's darkest ambitions? In Germania By Tacitus: The Reich's Sacred...  Read More >>

Japanese Kabuki Stories: Tales of Love and Death from the Japanese Theater

Japanese Kabuki Stories: Tales of Love and Death from...

Author: Ornella Civardi
ISBN: 9784805319727
Format: Hardback
$42.99

This beautiful book celebrates the Japanese kabuki tradition-presenting fifteen classic tales of tragic love and...  Read More >>

F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics

F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings,...

Author: Liz Gotauco ,  Jade Gotauco
ISBN: 9781324106333
Format: Hardback
$49.95

Bawdy, shocking and hilarious interpretations of classic and rare fairy tales from a beloved TikTok storyteller...  Read More >>

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley ,  Neil Fraistat (Professor of English & Director, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9781421451909
Format: Hardback
$309.00

A cycle of fifty-eight early poems.  Read More >>

Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth

Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth

Author: Zahid R. Chaudhary
ISBN: 9781531511869
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth.  Read More >>

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish Life

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish...

Author: Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez (Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas)
ISBN: 9780271100371
Format: Hardback
$238.00

Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of...  Read More >>

Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel

Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the...

Author: Zoë McGee
ISBN: 9781526188854
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Drawing parallels with the #MeToo movement, this book explores how a series of brilliant female authors in the eighteenth...  Read More >>

Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Brazil

Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic...

Author: Nathaniel Wolfson
ISBN: 9781477332535
Format: Hardback
$104.00

A study of concrete art and poetry, its implications, and influence in Brazil.  Read More >>

KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union

KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the...

Author: Filip Kovacevic
ISBN: 9781487548919
Format: Hardback
$170.00

KGB Literati offers a first-ever glimpse into the mysterious and long-ignored world and work of Soviet spies- and...  Read More >>

Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public

Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public...

Author: Keegan Cook Finberg
ISBN: 9780231219211
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Keegan Cook Finberg argues that poetry became an increasingly capacious force in the second half of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Norse Magic of the Germanic Tribes and Vikings: Germanic mythology explained objectively - Magic in the Germanic-Nordic region - From the Edda to Viking practices

Norse Magic of the Germanic Tribes and Vikings: Germanic...

Author: Einar Thoresen
ISBN: 9798232625283
Format: Paperback
$26.37

The magic of the Germanic peoples and Vikings - factual, source-based, understandable: Norse mythology, runes...  Read More >>

Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from Bacon to Austen

Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from...

Author: Kelly Swartz
ISBN: 9780813954127
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Four Contemporary American Playwrights: Exploring Identity

Four Contemporary American Playwrights: Exploring Identity...

Author: Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781350538801
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The fourth in a series of books exploring the careers of 28 award-winning contemporary American playwrights, this...  Read More >>

Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)

Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)

Author: Herman Melville ,  Barry Moser
ISBN: 9780226842486
Format: Hardback
$45.95

An illustrated edition of Billy Budd featuring woodcuts by celebrated artist Barry Moser. This edition of Billy...  Read More >>

The Way of Dante: Going Through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven with C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams

The Way of Dante: Going Through Hell, Purgatory, and...

Author: Richard Hughes Gibson ,  Nicole Mazzarella
ISBN: 9781514013380
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Rediscovering Dante with Lewis, Sayers, and Williams For centuries, readers have marveled at the imaginative brilliance...  Read More >>

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Author: Frederick D. King (Assistant Professor for the Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University)
ISBN: 9781399525954
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture...  Read More >>

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