Literature: history & criticism books

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Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual

Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual

Author: Pierre d'Alancaisez ,  Amir Naaman
ISBN: 9781068450709
Format: Paperback
$63.36

What happened to homosexuality in the transition from gay to queer? Inversion examines the cultural and political...  Read More >>

Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense

Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense...

Author: Elliott Kalan
ISBN: 9780226829937
Format: Hardback
$190.95

The winner of four Emmys, a Peabody, and two Writers Guild Awards (all of which badly need dusting) explains his...  Read More >>

The Textual Effects of David Walker's ""Appeal"": Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851

The Textual Effects of David Walker's ""Appeal"": Print-Based...

Author: Marcy J. Dinius
ISBN: 9781512828801
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Historians and literary historians alike recognize David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829-1830)...  Read More >>

Technologies for the Revolution: The Czech Avant-Garde in Print

Technologies for the Revolution: The Czech Avant-Garde...

Author: Meghan Forbes
ISBN: 9788024660509
Format: Paperback
$90.95

Offers a close look at the collaboration of the Czechoslovak avant-garde with print technicians to produce radical...  Read More >>

Signals of Being, or Verbum Caro Factum Est: A Play in Three Acts

Signals of Being, or Verbum Caro Factum Est: A Play...

Author: Volodymyr Rafeyenko ,  Mark Andryczyk
ISBN: 9780674302662
Format: Paperback
$26.95

Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Signals of Being: A Play in Three Acts stages a captivating dramatic interpretation of a country...  Read More >>

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida

Author: Stephen Purcell
ISBN: 9781526103574
Format: Hardback
$200.00

A history of Shakespeare's play in performance, from John Dryden's Restoration adaptation to the rediscovery of...  Read More >>

Dante: The Essential Commedia

Dante: The Essential Commedia

Author: Dante Alighieri ,  Prue Shaw (University College London)
ISBN: 9781324096207
Format: Hardback
$57.95

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Deciphering

Deciphering

Author: Curious Directive (Norfolk)
ISBN: 9781350606388
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Being a kid is full of things that don’t make sense, Elise. We’re born into something that started ages ago and...  Read More >>

An Intellectual Against Fascism: Selected Writings

An Intellectual Against Fascism: Selected Writings

Author: Piero Gobetti ,  Mimmo Cangiano
ISBN: 9781487560478
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book presents a comprehensive collection of Piero Gobetti's writings in English, featuring over thirty articles...  Read More >>

Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies

Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary...

Author: Eftihia Mihelakis ,  Lucille Toth
ISBN: 9781487559427
Format: Hardback
$115.00

This book explores how our physical experiences shape our understanding of health, disease, and illness, revealing...  Read More >>

Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism

Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism...

Author: Vanesa Miseres
ISBN: 9781487509231
Format: Hardback
$125.00

Covering the post-independence era to World War II, Gender Battles uncovers Latin American women writers and activists'...  Read More >>

Signals of Being, or Verbum Caro Factum Est: A Play in Three Acts

Signals of Being, or Verbum Caro Factum Est: A Play...

Author: Volodymyr Rafeyenko ,  Mark Andryczyk
ISBN: 9780674302631
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Signals of Being: A Play in Three Acts stages a captivating dramatic interpretation of a country...  Read More >>

Worlds of Wonder: Celebrating the Great Classics of Children’s Literature

Worlds of Wonder: Celebrating the Great Classics of...

Author: Daniel Hahn
ISBN: 9780522881998
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Leave the world behind and join some of the greatest children’s writers on a journey through human imagination in...  Read More >>

Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italy's Renaissance

Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italy's Renaissance

Author: Guylian Nemegeer
ISBN: 9783032053688
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Narrative Interplay in the Digital Era: Generative AI, Alternate Reality Games, and the Future of Interactive Pedagogy

Narrative Interplay in the Digital Era: Generative AI,...

Author: Andrew Klobucar (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9781835952054
Format: Hardback
$207.95

Explores interactive media through alternate realities, digital fiction, and gaming ideologies. It examines play...  Read More >>

Contemporary Somali Diasporic Literature: Ambivalent Belonging and Phobic Cosmopolitanism

Contemporary Somali Diasporic Literature: Ambivalent...

Author: Denish Odanga
ISBN: 9781041129608
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Satire of the New Black Renaissance: Open-Source Blackness

The Satire of the New Black Renaissance: Open-Source...

Author: Kamil Chrzczonowicz
ISBN: 9781032803081
Format: Hardback
$305.00

How do twenty-first-century Black satirists rewrite American ideas of race? This book plunges into the New Black...  Read More >>

Imp: The Collected Poetry of Benjamin DeCasseres

Imp: The Collected Poetry of Benjamin DeCasseres

Author: Benjamin Decasseres ,  Kevin I Slaughter
ISBN: 9781943687404
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Benjamin DeCasseres (1873-1945) was one of America's most unruly men of letters-a journalist-polemicist-poet who...  Read More >>

Im Denkraum der Besonnenheit: Literaten der Moderne und ihre Beiträge zum Humanismus des 21. Jahrhunderts

Im Denkraum der Besonnenheit: Literaten der Moderne...

Author: Gerhard Danzer
ISBN: 9783662713693
Format: Hardback
$65.97

Der Denkraum der Besonnenheit stammt als Begriff vom Hamburger Kulturwissenschaftler Aby Warburg (1866-1929). Obwohl...  Read More >>

Lessing and the Consequences

Lessing and the Consequences

Author: Robert Vellusig
ISBN: 9783662718728
Format: Hardback
$118.77

The history of modern German drama begins with Lessing. However, he is regarded as an author who stands at a threshold,...  Read More >>

The Cinema of Converging Lives: Complex Films and Intersecting Stories in an Isolated World

The Cinema of Converging Lives: Complex Films and Intersecting...

Author: Lucy Fischer (Distinguished Professor, Emerita, Film and Media Studies, Distinguished Professor, Emerita, Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9780197768662
Format: Paperback
$73.95

What happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important...  Read More >>

Narrating Multiplicities in Motion: The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Anglophone Cultures

Narrating Multiplicities in Motion: The Transformative...

Author: Elena Ogliari ,  Anna Pasolini
ISBN: 9781032995359
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Gold in the Water

Gold in the Water

Author: Shane O'Reilly
ISBN: 9781350617117
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Gold in the Water is a fabulous, funny, and heartfelt new Irish musical from Shane O'Reilly with Paul Curley.  Read More >>

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