Literature: history & criticism books

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The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance

The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the...

Author: Petal Kimberly Samuel
ISBN: 9781978844704
Format: Paperback
$66.00

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood....  Read More >>

Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels

Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels

Author: Ahmet Atas
ISBN: 9781666978926
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Gender and Identity in Arab Women's Literature: Ink and Identity

Gender and Identity in Arab Women's Literature: Ink...

Author: Diana Obeid ,  Sonia Lamrani
ISBN: 9781666974249
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Poetry For Dummies

Poetry For Dummies

Author: John Timpane (Poet, journalist, and academic) ,  The Poetry Center
ISBN: 9781394375554
Format: Paperback
$44.95

A guide to reading, writing and appreciating poetry - the fun and easy way. Advice is given on how to polish and...  Read More >>

The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and Emotions

The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory,...

Author: Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
ISBN: 9780826369000
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives...  Read More >>

Bramble

Bramble

Author: Susan Stewart
ISBN: 9780226847467
Format: Hardback
$36.95

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito Pérez Galdós

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito Pérez Galdós...

Author: Liana Ewald ,  David R. George
ISBN: 9781603297257
Format: Paperback
$87.99

Insightful essays explore a prolific writer’s vast work of novels, plays and journalism, addressing issues of feminism,...  Read More >>

West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture

West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco,...

Author: Lori Harrison-Kahan
ISBN: 9780814352328
Format: Paperback
$85.99

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Testimony, Faith and Religion in Early Modern English Literature: Making Belief

Testimony, Faith and Religion in Early Modern English...

Author: Joseph Ashmore (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009564045
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Joseph Ashmore argues that early modern literature became a key site for handling questions of faith during the...  Read More >>

John Milton in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture

John Milton in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual...

Author: Laura Fox Gill (University of Lincoln)
ISBN: 9781009665421
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Laura Fox Gill sheds new light on Milton's afterlives in a multimedia age, expanding our understanding of literary...  Read More >>

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913–1941

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction,...

Author: James Reichert
ISBN: 9798880700547
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination

Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary...

Author: Stéphanie É. Binder (Bar-Ilan University and University of Haifa)
ISBN: 9781009481793
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  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

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In the Mirror: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam

In the Mirror: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam...

Author: Phui Nam Wong ,  Daryl Lim Wei Jie
ISBN: 9789813252868
Format: Hardback
$97.90

In a complete collection of works by one of Malaysia’s foundational poets, Wong confronts the struggles of cultural...  Read More >>

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830998
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance

The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the...

Author: Petal Kimberly Samuel
ISBN: 9781978844711
Format: Hardback
$224.40

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood....  Read More >>

Refuting Antisemitism: Dismantling the Stereotypes, Canards, and Tropes of Jew Hatred

Refuting Antisemitism: Dismantling the Stereotypes,...

Author: Jeremy Havardi
ISBN: 9781680533903
Format: Hardback
$74.80

Modern antisemitism endangers Jewish communities and liberal democracy by disguising ancient prejudices in coded...  Read More >>

Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902

Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community...

Author: Mollie Barnes
ISBN: 9781643365367
Format: Hardback
$80.99

The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing Paper Heroines studies the...  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 >>

Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays in Their Cultural Context

Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays...

Author: Jim Curtis
ISBN: 9781032581101
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory on the Grammatika Vases

By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory...

Author: Maria Nasioula
ISBN: 9780674303300
Format: Paperback
$34.95

By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...

Author: Fabian Alfie
ISBN: 9780268210588
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

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