Literature: history & criticism books

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""Stanzas on the Stars and Sunspots"" by Vincenzo Figliucci: Advancing Galileo’s Discoveries in Early Modern Italy

""Stanzas on the Stars and Sunspots"" by Vincenzo Figliucci:...

Author: Beatrice Fazio
ISBN: 9783032158871
Format: Hardback
$90.54

This book offers the first critical edition and English translation of Vincenzo Figliucci’s Stanze sopra le stelle...  Read More >>

King Lear: The New Oxford Shakespeare

King Lear: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Namratha Rao (Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, University of York)
ISBN: 9780192865830
Format: Paperback
$18.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Henry VI, Part I: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part I: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Anonymous
ISBN: 9780192873569
Format: Paperback
$18.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Othello

Othello

Author: Paul Sugarman
ISBN: 9781493057061
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays. Along with tips on approaching and working on the play and...  Read More >>

The Tempest

The Tempest

Author: Paul Sugarman
ISBN: 9781493057108
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays. Along with tips on approaching and working on the play and...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Author: Paul Sugarman
ISBN: 9781493057023
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays. Along with tips on approaching and working on the play and...  Read More >>

Three Sisters: After Chekhov

Three Sisters: After Chekhov

Author: Inua Ellams (Author) ,  Oladipo Agboluaje (Author, University of East London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350473188
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A Student Edition of this acclaimed adaptation, looking at how Chekhov's original play has been transposed to an...  Read More >>

Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas: Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish Languages and Literatures

Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas: Spanglish, Portuñol,...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Remy Attig (Bowling Green Statue University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765110997
Format: Paperback
$59.99

An examination of Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish literatures that builds on sociolinguistic understandings...  Read More >>

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020...

Author: Professor or Dr. Oliver Haslam (Harlaxton College, University of Evansville, UK)
ISBN: 9798765109403
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child

Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The...

Author: Kristine Moruzi (Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University)
ISBN: 9781399521369
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Uncovers the role of children's periodicals in the development of charitable ideals for children between 18401930...  Read More >>

On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

Author: David P. Rando (Professor of English, Trinity University, Texas)
ISBN: 9781399538060
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices

Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in...

Author: J.R. (Tim) Struthers ,  Ailsa Cox (Emerita Professor of Short Fiction, Edge Hill University)
ISBN: 9781399534536
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read,...  Read More >>

Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination

Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black...

Author: andré carrington
ISBN: 9781531513337
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the present Audiofuturism uncovers the vibrant,...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence

Author: John Peters (University Distinguished Research Professor, University of North Texas)
ISBN: 9781399535861
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty

Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty...

Author: Malcolm Sen
ISBN: 9780815612070
Format: Hardback
$189.00

In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature is deeply engaged with...  Read More >>

Crossings: New and Selected Poems

Crossings: New and Selected Poems

Author: Jean Janzen ,  Jeff Gundy
ISBN: 9781680270273
Format: Paperback
$68.51

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Where Shadows Speak: Universal Lessons on Racism

Where Shadows Speak: Universal Lessons on Racism

Author: Oyebola
ISBN: 9783000864087
Format: Paperback
$36.93

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Shakespeare and Comics: Negotiating Cultural Value

Shakespeare and Comics: Negotiating Cultural Value

Author: Dr Jim Casey (Independent scholar, USA) ,  Dr Brandon Christopher (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350401389
Format: Paperback
$59.99

From their inception, ‘low culture’ comics have intersected with the ‘high culture’ of Shakespeare. This is the...  Read More >>

Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality

Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic...

Author: Dr Feras Alkabani (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9780755655823
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays

Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays

Author: Linda Dryden (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) ,  Professor Robert Hampson, FEA FRSA (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350440883
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation

Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation...

Author: Prof Pam Morris (Independent scholar, UK) ,  Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England)
ISBN: 9781350434097
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?: A Primitivist Phenomenology

Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference...

Author: Pilar Martinez Benedi ,  Ralph James Savarese (Grinnell College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350360907
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order...  Read More >>

Chaos and Cosmos: The Imaginary and the Political in Jorge Luis Borges

Chaos and Cosmos: The Imaginary and the Political in...

Author: Martín Plot (California Institute of the Arts, USA)
ISBN: 9781538178690
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as...  Read More >>

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