Literature: history & criticism books

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What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures

What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing,...

Author: Amos Oz
ISBN: 9780691230276
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Translation of: Mi-mah °asui ha-tapuaòh.  Read More >>

Close Reading: The Basics

Close Reading: The Basics

Author: David Greenham
ISBN: 9781032817286
Format: Hardback
$210.00

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The Jersey Slide

The Jersey Slide

Author: Danny Shot
ISBN: 9781960327147
Format: Paperback
$29.95

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How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature

How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature...

Author: Emily Hauser
ISBN: 9780691248769
Format: Paperback
$37.99

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender.  Read More >>

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish Life

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish...

Author: Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez (Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas)
ISBN: 9780271100388
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of...  Read More >>

Margaret Oliphant’s Curative Gothic Literature

Margaret Oliphant’s Curative Gothic Literature

Author: Katerina García-Walsh
ISBN: 9781032998725
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphant’s Gothic literature, in the light of her religious...  Read More >>

The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma

The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma...

Author: Jehanne Dubrow
ISBN: 9780826368645
Format: Paperback
$46.99

A writing guide to processing trauma through the poetic form, Jehanne Dubrow, a well respected writer, speaker,...  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 >>

Japanese Kabuki Stories: Tales of Love and Death from the Japanese Theater

Japanese Kabuki Stories: Tales of Love and Death from...

Author: Ornella Civardi
ISBN: 9784805319727
Format: Hardback
$42.99

This beautiful book celebrates the Japanese kabuki tradition-presenting fifteen classic tales of tragic love and...  Read More >>

Two Appearances After the Resurrection

Two Appearances After the Resurrection

Author: Shane McCrae
ISBN: 9781632431721
Format: Paperback
$27.95

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KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union

KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the...

Author: Filip Kovacevic
ISBN: 9781487548919
Format: Hardback
$170.00

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Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public

Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public...

Author: Keegan Cook Finberg
ISBN: 9780231219211
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Keegan Cook Finberg argues that poetry became an increasingly capacious force in the second half of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Brazil

Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic...

Author: Nathaniel Wolfson
ISBN: 9781477332535
Format: Hardback
$104.00

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F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics

F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings,...

Author: Liz Gotauco ,  Jade Gotauco
ISBN: 9781324106333
Format: Hardback
$49.95

Bawdy, shocking and hilarious interpretations of classic and rare fairy tales from a beloved TikTok storyteller...  Read More >>

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley ,  Neil Fraistat (Professor of English & Director, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9781421451909
Format: Hardback
$309.00

A cycle of fifty-eight early poems.  Read More >>

Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth

Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth

Author: Zahid R. Chaudhary
ISBN: 9781531511869
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth.  Read More >>

Coda

Coda

Author: Steven Seidenberg
ISBN: 9781632431738
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Experimental lyric and narrative poetry that brings together philosophy, theology, and humor. The nameless narrator...  Read More >>

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish Life

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish...

Author: Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez (Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas)
ISBN: 9780271100371
Format: Hardback
$238.00

Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of...  Read More >>

Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel

Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the...

Author: Zoë McGee
ISBN: 9781526188854
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Drawing parallels with the #MeToo movement, this book explores how a series of brilliant female authors in the eighteenth...  Read More >>

A Little Treat

A Little Treat

Author: Frank Murdocco
ISBN: 9781350593459
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)

Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)

Author: Herman Melville ,  Barry Moser
ISBN: 9780226842486
Format: Hardback
$45.95

An illustrated edition of Billy Budd featuring woodcuts by celebrated artist Barry Moser. This edition of Billy...  Read More >>

Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from Bacon to Austen

Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from...

Author: Kelly Swartz
ISBN: 9780813954127
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Proust's Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation

Proust's Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation...

Author: Randolph Splitter
ISBN: 9781032624198
Format: Paperback
$58.99

Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture

Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture...

Author: Julie Olin-Ammentorp
ISBN: 9781496244604
Format: Paperback
$80.99

This comparative study of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather combines biographical, historical, and literary analyses...  Read More >>

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