Literature: history & criticism books

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Ausgaben Im Vergleich: Praktiken Des Vergleichens Zwischen Edition Und Rezeption

Ausgaben Im Vergleich: Praktiken Des Vergleichens Zwischen...

Author: Sarah Alice Nienhaus ,  Elisa Ronzheimer
ISBN: 9783111451602
Format: Hardback
$85.77

Ausgabenvergleiche zählen zu den grundlegenden Praktiken philologischen Arbeitens - dennoch werden sie nur selten...  Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield and London

Katherine Mansfield and London

Author: Aime Gasston ,  Gerri Kimber
ISBN: 9781399539173
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...

Author: David Finkelstein (Cultural Historian)
ISBN: 9781474424899
Format: Paperback
$140.00

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain

Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain

Author: Bill Angus ,  Lisa Hopkins (Professor Emerita of English, Sheffield Hallam University)
ISBN: 9781399534499
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life Without Meaning

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life Without Meaning...

Author: Benjamin Paloff
ISBN: 9780810148635
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Author: Meredith L. Goldsmith ,  Emily J. Orlando
ISBN: 9780813081373
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writing Hailed for her remarkable social...  Read More >>

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Author: Sebastian D. G. Knowles ,  Geert Lernout
ISBN: 9780813081311
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900-2017

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...

Author: Martin Conboy (Professor of Journalism History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Sheffield) ,  Adrian Bingham (Professor of Modern British History, University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9781474424936
Format: Paperback
$140.00

This volume in offers a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland...  Read More >>

Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch

Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally...

Author: Luke O'Sullivan (Career Development Fellow in Early Modern French, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781399522977
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945–1965

The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945–1965...

Author: Michael Kalisch (Lecturer in 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781399526876
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel  Read More >>

Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature

Author: Ghazouane Arslane (Lecturer in the Department of English, Larbi Tebessi University)
ISBN: 9781399504690
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature,...

Author: Lindsay Diehl
ISBN: 9781771127288
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Examining a range of Chinese Canadian literature, this book incorporates elements of the author's own family story-her...  Read More >>

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John...

Author: J.A. Weingarten ,  Lorna Crozier
ISBN: 9781771126847
Format: Paperback
$84.70

The Weather and the Words depicts the poet John Newlove's life. Newlove's letters are a record not just of one person's...  Read More >>

Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers

Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière...

Author: Michael Allan
ISBN: 9781531514044
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Tells the global story of the cinematograph while modeling a film scholarship committed to transnational analysis...  Read More >>

Modern Japanese Writers and Kanshi: Exophonic Literary Performance and the Shifting Sinosphere

Modern Japanese Writers and Kanshi: Exophonic Literary...

Author: Christopher T. Keaveney
ISBN: 9781680535860
Format: Hardback
$149.60

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman...

Author: Maijastina Kahlos (Senior Research Fellow, University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781399514446
Format: Hardback
$219.00

In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it...  Read More >>

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity and the Politics of Space

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity...

Author: Karina Jakubowicz (Adjunct Professor, department of English, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781474494533
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes and Devices

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes...

Author: Gavriel Shapiro
ISBN: 9781680535907
Format: Hardback
$187.00

Delve into a creative universe built on faith as the cornerstone of ethics, where moral dilemmas and cruelty intertwine...  Read More >>

What's Ailing You?: The Skin-Deep Legacy of Trauma and Survival

What's Ailing You?: The Skin-Deep Legacy of Trauma and...

Author: Erica Simpson
ISBN: 9798317827908
Format: Paperback
$39.99

What's Ailing You? is an examination of the wounds Black families carry, the ones rooted in history, reinforced...  Read More >>

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov

Author: Jacques Ranciere ,  Steven Corcoran
ISBN: 9781509567355
Format: Paperback
$20.95

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

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