Literature: history & criticism books

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Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of Al-Ḥarīrī in an Age of Commentary

Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of Al-Ḥarīrī...

Author: Matthew L. Keegan
ISBN: 9781512828870
Format: Hardback
$116.00

An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century...  Read More >>

Comic Belles Lettres: Genealogies of Humor and Satire in Anglo-American Literature, 1711–1856

Comic Belles Lettres: Genealogies of Humor and Satire...

Author: James E. Caron ,  Judith Yaross Lee
ISBN: 9780807186121
Format: Hardback
$127.00

Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American...  Read More >>

Another Spring: and Other Plays

Another Spring: and Other Plays

Author: Yasmine Beverly Rana ,  Yasmine Beverly Rana
ISBN: 9781803095790
Format: Paperback
$41.95

From Sarajevo to Tunisia to Rome, these five plays trace the invisible scars of exile, where memory and identity...  Read More >>

Short Story Index, 2025 Annual Cumulation

Short Story Index, 2025 Annual Cumulation

Author: HW Wilson
ISBN: 9798891796980
Format: Paperback
$551.10

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Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...

Author: Fabian Alfie
ISBN: 9780268210595
Format: Paperback
$104.00

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil

Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil

Author: Antonio Sergio Bessa
ISBN: 9781531513689
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers in the Early 21st Century

Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers...

Author: Coca Duarte (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Theatre, Santiago, Chile) ,  Anne García-Romero (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)
ISBN: 9781350549296
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

Queer Forms and Pronouns: Gender Nonconformity in Anglophone Literature

Queer Forms and Pronouns: Gender Nonconformity in Anglophone...

Author: Lena Mattheis (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, University of Surrey)
ISBN: 9780198974116
Format: Hardback
$191.95

In Queer Forms and Pronouns, author Lena Mattheis explores gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in Anglophone literature...  Read More >>

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early Christianity to Early Modernity

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early...

Author: Lora Walsh (University of Arkansas)
ISBN: 9781009766289
Format: Paperback
$82.80

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

Adaptation in Musical Theatre

Adaptation in Musical Theatre

Author: Adam Rush (University of Winchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781350381797
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A concise and readable study into the role of adaptation in the form of musical theatre, drawing on contemporary...  Read More >>

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist...

Author: Matthew Ritger
ISBN: 9781512828993
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

Inca Garcilaso De La Vega: Literary Genealogies of an Indigenous Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century Peru

Inca Garcilaso De La Vega: Literary Genealogies of an...

Author: Thomas Ward
ISBN: 9781496244376
Format: Hardback
$162.00

A thorough examination of four Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work...  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: 9781603297240
Format: Hardback
$208.00

Ensayos para docentes exploran la amplia obra de Benito Pérez Galdós, abarcando novelas, cuentos, teatro y periodismo....  Read More >>

Camus on Justice: A Metaphysics of Revolt

Camus on Justice: A Metaphysics of Revolt

Author: Craig DeLancey
ISBN: 9780268210779
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Camus on Justice investigates Albert Camus's rich and overlooked theory about the relationship between the absurd,...  Read More >>

Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities

Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental...

Author: Yasser Elhariry ,  Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
ISBN: 9780813954202
Format: Hardback
$266.00

Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itself Water Logics examines the epistemological adjustments...  Read More >>

Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil

Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil

Author: Antonio Sergio Bessa
ISBN: 9781531513672
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

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