Literature: history & criticism books

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CHamoru Legends: A Gathering of Stories

CHamoru Legends: A Gathering of Stories

Author: Teresita Lourdes Perez
ISBN: 9781878453334
Format: Paperback
$51.99

CHamoru Legends retells twelve CHamoru legends and features personal reflections from author Teresita Lourdes Perez,...  Read More >>

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience...

Author: Patrice D. Rankine
ISBN: 9781602584532
Format: Paperback
$118.77

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830981
Format: Paperback
$61.60

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: 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 >>

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives, Friendship and Writings

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives,...

Author: Susan Dunne
ISBN: 9781036135096
Format: Hardback
$80.00

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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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Fissured Ground: National History in Angolan Fiction, Origins to Independence

Fissured Ground: National History in Angolan Fiction,...

Author: Stephen Henighan
ISBN: 9780228026921
Format: Hardback
$227.70

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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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Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography

Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography

Author: Gary Scharnhorst
ISBN: 9780826369154
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Author: Lillian E. Doherty
ISBN: 9781603297097
Format: Hardback
$208.00

An innovative teaching guide reinterprets an ancient epic by linking its Bronze Age roots to contemporary issues...  Read More >>

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 >>

Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics

Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital...

Author: Bruno Daniel Ministro dos Santos (Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Porto)
ISBN: 9781399551533
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines the transformative power of repetition in contemporary poetic practices.  Read More >>

Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in Literature and Political Culture: Violent Borders and Gender Orders

Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in...

Author: Joshua D. Martin
ISBN: 9781666966442
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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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 >>

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