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Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality and Rewriting the Self

Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality...
Author: Angela L. Willis ISBN: 9781683406242 Format: Paperback	$80.99
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Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast: Contemporary Petrofiction from Denmark and Norway

Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast: Contemporary...
Author: Karl Emil Rosenbaek Reetz ISBN: 9781959000761 Format: Paperback	$64.99
The first major study of contemporary Nordic petrofiction. Through a variety of cultural texts, including the Nordic... Read More >>

Public Acoustics: The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature

Public Acoustics: The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime...
Author: Ellen R. Welch ISBN: 9781512829471 Format: Hardback	$150.00
Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,... Read More >>

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture
Author: Benjamin A. Saltzman ISBN: 9780226847214 Format: Hardback	$190.95
A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look... Read More >>

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels
Author: John Brenkman ISBN: 9780226849447 Format: Paperback	$45.95
An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James's late works through the lens of minimalism. Henry James's... Read More >>

What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You)

What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should...
Author: Naomi Kanakia ISBN: 9780691251929 Format: Hardback	$44.99
A popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are toodifficult, too problematic,... Read More >>

So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright

So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry...
Author: Adam Scheffler ISBN: 9780807186084 Format: Hardback	$92.99
James Wright (1927–80) was considered one of the major poets of his era, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, even... Read More >>

Hagiography in the Age of Mass Publishing: Hasidic Writing and the Making of Jewish Modernity

Hagiography in the Age of Mass Publishing: Hasidic Writing...
Author: Chen Mandel-Edrei ISBN: 9781503646308 Format: Hardback	$150.00
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Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum...
Author: Allison S. Curseen ISBN: 9781469694191 Format: Hardback	$229.00
Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure... Read More >>

Another Spring: and Other Plays

Another Spring: and Other Plays
Author: Yasmine Beverly Rana , Yasmine Beverly Rana ISBN: 9781803095790 Format: Paperback	$41.95
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Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality and Rewriting the Self

Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality...
Author: Angela L. Willis ISBN: 9781683406556 Format: Hardback	$254.00
This book offers a fresh reading of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, showing how the Cuban writer reimagined literary... Read More >>

Legend of the Far East's Savior, Vol. 1

Legend of the Far East's Savior, Vol. 1
Author: Haydn Trowell , hotokeyomo ISBN: 9798855424362 Format: Paperback	$26.99
At the end of World War II, a demon-summoning ritual drastically altered the face of the earth. Now, a hundred years... Read More >>

Hymn to Moray Eels

Hymn to Moray Eels
Author: Mireille Best , Stephanie Schechner ISBN: 9781803095578 Format: Hardback	$41.95
In a rigid postwar institution where friendships burn bright and... Read More >>

The Long March of Basic Trust: Chronicle of Emotions; Notebook 2

The Long March of Basic Trust: Chronicle of Emotions;...
Author: Alexander Kluge , Alexander Booth ISBN: 9781803095479 Format: Hardback	$41.95
As past and future blur, this work from Alexander Kluge reveals the emotional and intellectual currents that drive... Read More >>

Finnish Romanticism: Language, Nationalism, and the Fine Arts of Finland’s Long Nineteenth Century

Finnish Romanticism: Language, Nationalism, and the...
Author: Michael Demson , Helena Halmari ISBN: 9783031989322 Format: Hardback	$388.10
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Treue. Zur Ethik des Realismus

Treue. Zur Ethik des Realismus
Author: Roman Widder , Joseph Vogl ISBN: 9783662728727 Format: Paperback	$237.57
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Hip-Hop and American Culture

Hip-Hop and American Culture
Author: Rob Turner (University of Exeter) ISBN: 9781009714761 Format: Paperback	$80.21
Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers... Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s...
Author: Emma Mason (University of Warwick) ISBN: 9781009292894 Format: Hardback	$219.94
The 1810s are often overlooked as a transitional time between Romantic and Victorian literature and culture. The... Read More >>

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle ISBN: 9780785848790 Format: Hardback	$35.00
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Geschichte Der Althoch- Und Altniederdeutschen Literatur

Geschichte Der Althoch- Und Altniederdeutschen Literatur...
Author: Rudolf Koegel , Wilhelm Bruckner ISBN: 9783111282282 Format: Hardback	$406.56
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Geschichte der althoch- und altniederdeutschen Literatur"" verfügbar. Read More >>

Buch 1-3: Krankheiten Und Ihre Behandlung

Buch 1-3: Krankheiten Und Ihre Behandlung
Author: Lenka Vanková , Vaclav Bok ISBN: 9783110731248 Format: Hardback	$364.29
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The Death of a Greek Lover

The Death of a Greek Lover
Author: David Plante, M. D. , Edward Mendelson ISBN: 9798896230243 Format: Paperback	$35.00
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Centrestage: Essays on Theatre, Indian and Intercultural

Centrestage: Essays on Theatre, Indian and Intercultural...
Author: Ananda Lal ISBN: 9781803096025 Format: Paperback	$41.95
An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,... Read More >>

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the...
Author: Joseph Boone ISBN: 9780231222204 Format: Paperback	$74.95
Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers... Read More >>

The Insides of the Outsider: Women and the Poetics of Space and Place

The Insides of the Outsider: Women and the Poetics of...
Author: Mariangela Ugarelli ISBN: 9798881904340 Format: Paperback	$150.48
When asked if being a woman had a negative impact on her ability to succeed as a writer, Argentine poet Alejandra... Read More >>

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