Literature: history & criticism books

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The Path from Aulis: A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia

The Path from Aulis: A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia...

Author: Professor Richard Jenkyns
ISBN: 9781350534483
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar.  Read More >>

An Ecopoetics of Agency: Writing with the Nonhuman in Modernist and Contemporary Poetry

An Ecopoetics of Agency: Writing with the Nonhuman in...

Author: Sarah Bouttier (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
ISBN: 9781350528369
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Establishing the existence of a category of poems from the Modernist and contemporary periods which give agency...  Read More >>

Evelyn Waugh's Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy

Evelyn Waugh's Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy...

Author: Yuexi Liu (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
ISBN: 9781350551985
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first to systematically examine Waugh’s relationship with cinema in the context of modernism, this book examines...  Read More >>

A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory

A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory

Author: Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9781350534070
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes

Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes

Author: Dr Eleanor Houghton (Historical costume consultant, writer and illustrator)
ISBN: 9781350514089
Format: Hardback
$50.00

A renowned Brontë scholar and dress historian’s innovative, richly illustrated biography explores Charlotte Brontë's...  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee and Christianity

J. M. Coetzee and Christianity

Author: Alicia Broggi (Independent scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350500235
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book explores the nexus between religion and literature by examining central developments in J.M. Coetzee’s...  Read More >>

Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the Queen of Crime's Capital

Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the...

Author: Tina Hodgkinson
ISBN: 9781837050796
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Grief Work as Autotheory: Sisterhood, Suicide and Art

Grief Work as Autotheory: Sisterhood, Suicide and Art...

Author: Meg Jensen
ISBN: 9783032121516
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non-fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental...  Read More >>

Interactivity and Meta-Engagement in Digital Mystery Narratives

Interactivity and Meta-Engagement in Digital Mystery...

Author: Julialicia Case (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay)
ISBN: 9781009565288
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element provides an analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches,...  Read More >>

Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

Author: Katherine Krauss (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Kalamazoo College)
ISBN: 9780198926672
Format: Hardback
$234.95

This volume offers a new reading of Macrobius' place in late antique literary history with an exploration of the...  Read More >>

Centrestage: Essays on Theatre, Indian and Intercultural

Centrestage: Essays on Theatre, Indian and Intercultural...

Author: Ananda Lal
ISBN: 9781803096544
Format: Hardback
$190.95

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective

Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective...

Author: Kimberley Pager-­McClymont (University of Aberdeen’s Internation Study Centre) ,  Suzanne McClure (University of Liverpool)
ISBN: 9781009511360
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together...  Read More >>

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West...

Author: Jeanne-Marie Jackson
ISBN: 9780691271002
Format: Paperback
$54.99

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

Brainsluts

Brainsluts

Author: Dan Bishop
ISBN: 9781350639249
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Five Sundays. Five strangers. One mystery drug. What could go wrong?  Read More >>

Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing

Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing...

Author: Amina Yaqin
ISBN: 9781839998027
Format: Paperback
$50.00

This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth...  Read More >>

Universality and Utopia: The 20th Century Indigenista Peruvian Tradition

Universality and Utopia: The 20th Century Indigenista...

Author: Daniel Sacilotto
ISBN: 9781839998386
Format: Paperback
$50.00

This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenistaliterary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation...  Read More >>

Singing from the Deep End

Singing from the Deep End

Author: Rebecca Hart Olander
ISBN: 9781960327178
Format: Paperback
$29.95

An intimate collection of poems about mothers and daughters, female friendship, and memory. Rebecca Hart Olander's...  Read More >>

No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC

No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington,...

Author: Brian Gilmore
ISBN: 9781647126551
Format: Paperback
$55.99

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon

Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American...

Author: Toni Morrison ,  Claudia Brodsky
ISBN: 9780593802748
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American...  Read More >>

The Ecstasy of Reproduction: Postmodernity and Its Contemporaneity

The Ecstasy of Reproduction: Postmodernity and Its Contemporaneity...

Author: Alberto Castelli
ISBN: 9781839998720
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity....  Read More >>

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