Literature: history & criticism books

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Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition...

Author: Samuele Collu
ISBN: 9781478029519
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Into the Weeds

Into the Weeds

Author: Lydia Davis
ISBN: 9780300279740
Format: Hardback
$26.95

The author reflects upon her own creative process, attempting to answer the question, ""Why do you write?""  Read More >>

The Sound of the Past: Echoes and Incantations in Eliot, H.D., and Woolf

The Sound of the Past: Echoes and Incantations in Eliot,...

Author: Susan McCabe ,  Steven Minas
ISBN: 9798881903763
Format: Hardback
$295.68

'The Sound of the Past' collects nine essays on the topic of Modernism and its relationship to past histories, literatures,...  Read More >>

Holocaust and Hope: Literature, Testimony, Media

Holocaust and Hope: Literature, Testimony, Media

Author: Geoffrey Hartman ,  Kevis Goodman
ISBN: 9781531512200
Format: Hardback
$254.00

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Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France

Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in...

Author: Natania Meeker
ISBN: 9781531512569
Format: Hardback
$289.00

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Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Author: Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia) ,  Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198972662
Format: Hardback
$199.95

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of ""The Magic Mountain""

The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making...

Author: Morten Høi Jensen
ISBN: 9780300233742
Format: Hardback
$45.95

The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos...  Read More >>

The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death

The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing...

Author: Joanna Stalnaker
ISBN: 9780300181340
Format: Hardback
$61.95

A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical...  Read More >>

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You A Better Writer

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You A Better...

Author: Gary Alan McBride
ISBN: 9798999659804
Format: Hardback
$113.49

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The Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu

The Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu

Author: Stan Lee ,  John Severin
ISBN: 9798875001086
Format: Hardback
$65.95

Marvel in a Mad mode! The complete 1955 Snafu magazine collected for the first time, featuring satire by John and...  Read More >>

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction...

Author: Amy De'Ath
ISBN: 9781503643840
Format: Hardback
$300.00

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the wayour lives are shaped...  Read More >>

Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy

Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy

Author: Michael Frede (sometime Professor of the History of Philosophy, sometime Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Oxford) ,  George Boys-Stones (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780198889328
Format: Hardback
$296.95

This is a collection of seminal papers by the late Michael Frede on an important period in philosophical history,...  Read More >>

My Mad Scientist

My Mad Scientist

Author: Kyli Brown
ISBN: 9798893249781
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In the shadows of Victorian London, Alice Lumsley's life has been a sequence of entrapment and despair. Committed...  Read More >>

The Italian Renaissance: A Cultural History

The Italian Renaissance: A Cultural History

Author: Virginia Cox (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009474245
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this study,...  Read More >>

Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700

Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and...

Author: Dr Mary Bateman
ISBN: 9781843847700
Format: Paperback
$69.84

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales.  Read More >>

Brainsluts

Brainsluts

Author: Dan Bishop
ISBN: 9781350639249
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Five Sundays. Five strangers. One mystery drug. What could go wrong?  Read More >>

Heart Sick (Discreet Cover)

Heart Sick (Discreet Cover)

Author: Monica James
ISBN: 9781764477352
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Piano has always been my one true love. So when the music stops, I do whatever I can to hear it again. But...  Read More >>

Love Sick (Discreet Cover)

Love Sick (Discreet Cover)

Author: Monica James
ISBN: 9781764477369
Format: Paperback
$92.40

All I want is revenge. But I'm afraid it will destroy me because I'm not a monster. Or maybe I am. And...  Read More >>

How and Why Do Courts Cite?: Intertextual References in the Decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the Supreme Court of Canada

How and Why Do Courts Cite?: Intertextual References...

Author: Joy Steigler-Herms
ISBN: 9783662719336
Format: Paperback
$263.97

Court decisions can neither be made nor drafted without references to other texts; citations are omnipresent in...  Read More >>

Monstrosity, Alienation and Impossibility of Communication in J. M. Coetzee's Novels

Monstrosity, Alienation and Impossibility of Communication...

Author: Roohollah Beigi ,  Pyeaam Abbasi
ISBN: 9783034354103
Format: Hardback
$237.47

In Monstrosity, Alienation and Impossibility of Communication in J. M. Coetzee's Novels, readers embark on a profound...  Read More >>

Empreintes Tremblantes

Empreintes Tremblantes

Author: Naif Mahdi ,  Sara Hussein
ISBN: 9786038504475
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Le livre Empreintes tremblantes est une collection de très courtes histoires qui se concentrent sur des moments...  Read More >>

Mandarin Chinese Course (Part 13)- A Guide to Chinese Sentence Complexity, Grammar in Depth, Building Blocks of Chinese, Noun Phrases and Their Enhancers, Crafting Complex Phrases and Modifiers, All HSK Level Preparation

Mandarin Chinese Course (Part 13)- A Guide to Chinese...

Author: Yuxin Ying
ISBN: 9798887549354
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Embarking on the journey of mastering the Chinese language can often resemble the arduous yet rewarding climb up...  Read More >>

Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe

Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe...

Author: George Santayana
ISBN: 9798211414020
Format: Paperback
$39.57

The present volume, Three Philosophical Poets, is composed, with a few additions, of six lectures read at Columbia...  Read More >>

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