Literature: history & criticism books

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Joyce Mansour The Tuberose Baby Girl

Joyce Mansour The Tuberose Baby Girl

Author: Mohsen Elbelasy
ISBN: 9798232326753
Format: Paperback
$132.00

This foundational volume presents the first comprehensive English-language excavation of Joyce's life and work....  Read More >>

The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination

The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination

Author: Annabelle Dufourcq (Radboud University and Wageningen University and Research)
ISBN: 9781009644426
Format: Hardback
$142.31

The aim of this Element is to forge new conceptual tools to give more ecological power to the human imagination....  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville

The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville

Author: Jennifer Greiman (Professor, Department of English, Professor, Department of English, Wake Forest University) ,  Michael Jonik (Professor in English, Professor in English, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9780198864912
Format: Hardback
$330.95

This comprehensive Handbook of Melville aims to reintroduce readers to a writer whom they think they know well by...  Read More >>

Roman Comedy against the Subject

Roman Comedy against the Subject

Author: Mario Telò (Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, University of California Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780198920090
Format: Hardback
$199.95

This book integrates several critical-theoretical approaches including object-oriented ontology, queer theory, and...  Read More >>

Why Plato Matters Now

Why Plato Matters Now

Author: Angie Hobbs
ISBN: 9781399403375
Format: Hardback
$39.99

This accessible introduction explores how Plato's ancient wisdom can still change your life today.  Read More >>

The Nine Lives of Annie Besant: The Astonishing Story of a Victorian Rebel

The Nine Lives of Annie Besant: The Astonishing Story...

Author: Clare Paterson
ISBN: 9781803997360
Format: Hardback
$54.99

The sensational story of a Victorian superwoman  Read More >>

Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy

Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy...

Author: Peter Jeffreys ,  Gregory Jusdanis
ISBN: 9781398551237
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine...  Read More >>

The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performance

The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performance

Author: Pamela Lothspeich (Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of South Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9780198948896
Format: Hardback
$282.95

Pandit Radheshyam Kathavachak, a 20th-century poet, reinterpreted the Ramayan into the 'Radheshyam Ramayan', blending...  Read More >>

Paradigmes

Paradigmes

Author: Keyril C E P
ISBN: 9782810623976
Format: Paperback
$44.62

Un récit hybride, un témoignage original sur les fonctionnements biaisés de la psychiatrie institutionnelle. Un...  Read More >>

Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism in Contemporary Literature

Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism...

Author: Mariam Popal
ISBN: 9783837672619
Format: Paperback
$99.95

What makes us pensive, feel pleasure and pain at the same time? What are we touched by in (humorous) instances of...  Read More >>

So Many Books, 2nd Edition: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

So Many Books, 2nd Edition: Reading and Publishing in...

Author: Gabriel Zaid ,  Robin Sloan
ISBN: 9781589882072
Format: Paperback
$42.11

A charming new edition of a much-loved book about books ""A playful celebrant of literary proliferation.""--New...  Read More >>

Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at the End of the World

Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at...

Author: Ashley Oliphant ,  Eva Wilhelm
ISBN: 9798228613447
Format: Audio
$105.57

Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when...  Read More >>

Tolkien, Philosopher of War

Tolkien, Philosopher of War

Author: Graham James McAleer ,  John Patrick Walsh
ISBN: 9798228612150
Format: Audio
$131.97

In popular imagination, Tolkien is a Luddite, but recent scholarship has identified Tolkien's extensive modern sympathies....  Read More >>

Tolkien, Philosopher of War

Tolkien, Philosopher of War

Author: Graham James McAleer ,  John Patrick Walsh
ISBN: 9798228612167
Format: Audio
$121.31

In popular imagination, Tolkien is a Luddite, but recent scholarship has identified Tolkien's extensive modern sympathies....  Read More >>

89 Words Followed by Prague: A Disappearing Poem

89 Words Followed by Prague: A Disappearing Poem

Author: Milan Kundera ,  Charles Constant
ISBN: 9798228480001
Format: Audio
$79.17

Two newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together...  Read More >>

Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at the End of the World

Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at...

Author: Ashley Oliphant ,  Eva Wilhelm
ISBN: 9798228613454
Format: Audio
$121.31

Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when...  Read More >>

89 Words Followed by Prague: A Disappearing Poem

89 Words Followed by Prague: A Disappearing Poem

Author: Milan Kundera ,  Charles Constant
ISBN: 9798228480018
Format: Audio
$121.31

Two newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together...  Read More >>

The Three Pig Variations: 27 Tiny Plays About Talking Animals and Real Estate

The Three Pig Variations: 27 Tiny Plays About Talking...

Author: David MacPherson
ISBN: 9798231514441
Format: Paperback
$26.40

You know the story. Three pigs build three houses. One is of straw. One is of sticks. One is of bricks. A wolf comes...  Read More >>

George Orwell: A Reader's Guide: Or, 'Who Is Big Brother?' and Other Puzzles

George Orwell: A Reader's Guide: Or, 'Who Is Big Brother?'...

Author: D. J. Taylor
ISBN: 9780300284232
Format: Paperback
$24.95

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The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy

The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early...

Author: Victoria Wohl
ISBN: 9780520413320
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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SOFAR: Poems

SOFAR: Poems

Author: Elizabeth Bradfield
ISBN: 9780892556182
Format: Paperback
$29.95

In SOFAR, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, one of our most important writers on the natural (especially the...  Read More >>

Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work

Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of...

Author: Kristin Grogan
ISBN: 9780231219648
Format: Paperback
$59.95

In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan argues that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people...  Read More >>

89 Words Followed by Prague, a Disappearing Poem

89 Words Followed by Prague, a Disappearing Poem

Author: Milan Kundera ,  Matt Reeck
ISBN: 9780063436435
Format: Hardback
$68.61

""Two newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available...  Read More >>

National 5/Higher English Revision: Poetry by Carol Ann Duffy: Revision Guide for the Sqa English Exams

National 5/Higher English Revision: Poetry by Carol...

Author: David Cockburn ,  Leckie
ISBN: 9780008774707
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Exam Board: SQA Level: N5/Higher Subject:...  Read More >>

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