Literature: history & criticism books

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Ancient Weeds: Contours of Popular and Trash Literature in Ancient and Medieval Times

Ancient Weeds: Contours of Popular and Trash Literature...

Author: Sylva Fischerová ,  Jirí Starý
ISBN: 9788024654720
Format: Paperback
$74.95

This book blurs the line between high and low culture throughout literary history. The common story in literary...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of the Dramatic Art

The Aesthetics of the Dramatic Art

Author: Otakar Zich
ISBN: 9788024657851
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A new translation of a classic work of structuralist criticism. Originally published in 1931, Otakar Zich's Aesthetics...  Read More >>

Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition: A History of Motifs and Motives in South Asia

Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition: A History of Motifs...

Author: Aaron Sherraden
ISBN: 9781839994944
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial...  Read More >>

Taking Back Desire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness and Neoliberalism on Screen

Taking Back Desire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness...

Author: James Lawrence Slattery
ISBN: 9781032863702
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Taking Back Desire studies film, television and video art texts through a Lacanian prism to restore a sense of queer...  Read More >>

Pride and Prejudice: Navigating LGBT Identity in India

Pride and Prejudice: Navigating LGBT Identity in India...

Author: Dan
ISBN: 9798899297748
Format: Hardback
$73.92

This is a nonfiction book which deals with the challenges that people from LGBT community in India are facing or...  Read More >>

Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of It

Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through...

Author: Emily Hauser
ISBN: 9780226839684
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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GRATEFULLY & AFFECTIONATELY: MARY LAVIN & THE NEW YORKER

GRATEFULLY & AFFECTIONATELY: MARY LAVIN & THE NEW YORKER...

Author: Gráinne Hurley
ISBN: 9781848409293
Format: Hardback
$62.07

The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight...  Read More >>

Authority and Ideology in the Early Neo-Assyrian Empire (934–745 B.C.)

Authority and Ideology in the Early Neo-Assyrian Empire...

Author: Zozan Tarhan
ISBN: 9789515185877
Format: Paperback
$134.15

This monograph explores royal authority and ideology in the early Neo-Assyrian Empire (934–745 B.C.). It comprises...  Read More >>

Mosaic Digest Issue 3

Mosaic Digest Issue 3

Author: Ivy
ISBN: 9781642264357
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Welcome to the third issue of Mosaic Digest magazine!  Read More >>

Taking Back Desire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness and Neoliberalism on Screen

Taking Back Desire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness...

Author: James Lawrence Slattery
ISBN: 9781032863719
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Taking Back Desire studies film, television and video art texts through a Lacanian prism to restore a sense of queer...  Read More >>

Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee

Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings...

Author: Noel Rubinton
ISBN: 9780691244921
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An annotated guide to the work of the Pulitzer Prizewinning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfiction...  Read More >>

Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture: Bodies of Knowledge, 1726-1818

Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and...

Author: Jennifer S. Henke
ISBN: 9781032741703
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines a selection of texts to illuminate how midwifery, obstetrics and women’s bodies were viewed during...  Read More >>

The Magnificat of White Thought: The End of Western Barbarism and Supremacy

The Magnificat of White Thought: The End of Western...

Author: Oscar Elimby
ISBN: 9781069481603
Format: Paperback
$68.61

Being ignorant is not a crime. It is the maintenance of a person in this state or the confiscation of truth and...  Read More >>

Exploring Sinophone Liminality in Contemporary Chinese Fiction: Ghost Narratives and the Contouring of Invisible Realms

Exploring Sinophone Liminality in Contemporary Chinese...

Author: Di-kai Chao (Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781032792682
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Chao explores Sinophone literature as a complex field that navigates the intersections of Sinitic languages, global...  Read More >>

A Writer's Story: A Memoir

A Writer's Story: A Memoir

Author: Rachel Billington
ISBN: 9781068761362
Format: Hardback
$51.75

A collection of memories, told with wit and understanding, which not only reveals the inspiration behind many of...  Read More >>

A Blue Tale and Other Stories

A Blue Tale and Other Stories

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar ,  Alberto Manguel
ISBN: 9780226836898
Format: Paperback
$24.95

This collection includes three stories written between 1927 and 1930. They cover a range of themes, from an allegory...  Read More >>

Confucian Literature of the Tang and Song Dynasties: An Annotated Anthology 唐宋儒家詩文譯注

Confucian Literature of the Tang and Song Dynasties:...

Author: Zu-yan Chen
ISBN: 9781041013716
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Childless By Choice: The Meaning & Legacy of a Childfree Life

Childless By Choice: The Meaning & Legacy of a Childfree...

Author: Helen Taylor
ISBN: 9781917523301
Format: Hardback
$52.77

Helen Taylor cuts through the taboo of voluntary childlessness in this timely, intimate and groundbreaking exploration...  Read More >>

Geografía emocional del amor que elegimos

Geografía emocional del amor que elegimos

Author: Sofia Nicole Montaño Aldaz
ISBN: 9798287648121
Format: Paperback
$26.40

¿Qué significa amar hoy, en un mundo que celebra la libertad pero teme el compromiso? Geografía emocional del amor...  Read More >>

Imagems 3

Imagems 3

Author: Richard Berengarten
ISBN: 9781848619074
Format: Paperback
$17.60

These lyrical meditations celebrate poetry as the form of language...  Read More >>

Géocritique de l'Alger policier

Géocritique de l'Alger policier

Author: Issam Boulksibat
ISBN: 9782494506862
Format: Paperback
$87.09

Alger tient une place particulière chez les auteurs de polars, charriant les fantômes du passé colonial et des violences...  Read More >>

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