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Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome
Author: Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia) , Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University) ISBN: 9780198972662 Format: Hardback	$199.95
This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's... Read More >>

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You A Better Writer

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You A Better...
Author: Gary Alan McBride ISBN: 9798999659804 Format: Hardback	$113.49
Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You a Better Writer is a unique reference guide designed to teach writers... Read More >>

The Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu

The Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu
Author: Stan Lee , John Severin ISBN: 9798875001086 Format: Hardback	$65.95
Marvel in a Mad mode! The complete 1955 Snafu magazine collected for the first time, featuring satire by John and... Read More >>

The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of ""The Magic Mountain""

The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making...
Author: Morten Høi Jensen ISBN: 9780300233742 Format: Hardback	$45.95
The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos... Read More >>

Into the Weeds

Into the Weeds
Author: Lydia Davis ISBN: 9780300279740 Format: Hardback	$26.95
The author reflects upon her own creative process, attempting to answer the question, ""Why do you write?"" Read More >>

The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death

The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing...
Author: Joanna Stalnaker ISBN: 9780300181340 Format: Hardback	$61.95
A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical... Read More >>

The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics

The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics...
Author: Jan Baetens , Hugo Frey ISBN: 9781477332504 Format: Hardback	$127.00
How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics. Read More >>

Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary Graphic Narrative

Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary...
Author: Daniel Stein ISBN: 9781496860583 Format: Hardback	$222.20
A revelation of the powerful circuit between Black history and modern comics by African American creators Read More >>

Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy

Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy
Author: Michael Frede (sometime Professor of the History of Philosophy, sometime Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Oxford) , George Boys-Stones (University of Toronto) ISBN: 9780198889328 Format: Hardback	$296.95
This is a collection of seminal papers by the late Michael Frede on an important period in philosophical history,... Read More >>

How and Why Do Courts Cite?: Intertextual References in the Decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the Supreme Court of Canada

How and Why Do Courts Cite?: Intertextual References...
Author: Joy Steigler-Herms ISBN: 9783662719336 Format: Paperback	$263.97
Court decisions can neither be made nor drafted without references to other texts; citations are omnipresent in... Read More >>

Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need

Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature,...
Author: Ian Marshall ISBN: 9780813955186 Format: Paperback	$68.99
Nature's ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river,... Read More >>

Hegel's Relationship to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth

Hegel's Relationship to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth...
Author: Michael Geoffrey Salter ISBN: 9783032094452 Format: Hardback	$422.37
This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout... Read More >>

Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom

Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom
Author: Uwe Rasch ISBN: 9783031576089 Format: Hardback	$118.77
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American Writers in Paris: Then and Now

American Writers in Paris: Then and Now
Author: Ferdâ Asya ISBN: 9783031669897 Format: Hardback	$448.77
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Corporeality in the Novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Sony Labou Tansi: Bodies in (Con)texts

Corporeality in the Novels of Gabriel García Márquez...
Author: Gilbert Shang Ndi ISBN: 9783032018014 Format: Hardback	$369.57
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Biographical Traditions in Early Modern East Asia, 1500-1900: Collecting Accounts

Biographical Traditions in Early Modern East Asia, 1500-1900:...
Author: Ihor Pidhainy , Ann Waltner ISBN: 9783032023773 Format: Hardback	$369.57
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William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women

William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women...
Author: Jodie Marley ISBN: 9783032038173 Format: Hardback	$369.57
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Nationalism and Royal Women in Early Modern England: The Queen's Gambit

Nationalism and Royal Women in Early Modern England:...
Author: Elizabeth Hodgson , Sarah Crover ISBN: 9783032033857 Format: Hardback	$369.57
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George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical Companion

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical...
Author: Joseph Rex Young ISBN: 9783032080226 Format: Hardback	$118.77
This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's... Read More >>

Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art

Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives...
Author: Muhammad Waqar Azeem ISBN: 9783032081902 Format: Hardback	$422.37
This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law... Read More >>

Human-Animal Relations in the Indigenous Literatures of the Soviet North

Human-Animal Relations in the Indigenous Literatures...
Author: Eeva Kuikka ISBN: 9783032084149 Format: Hardback	$158.37
This open access book examines how Indigenous authors from the Soviet North reflect the impact of Soviet settler... Read More >>

New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle

New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle
Author: David A. Ibitson ISBN: 9783032089724 Format: Hardback	$369.57
This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions... Read More >>

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological Study

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological...
Author: Ármann Jakobsson ISBN: 9783032111869 Format: Hardback	$118.77
This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval... Read More >>

Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British Performance

Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British...
Author: Eleanor Rycroft , Greg Walker ISBN: 9783032121288 Format: Hardback	$118.77
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Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century: Redefining World Literature

Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century:...
Author: Ying Xiong ISBN: 9783032121844 Format: Hardback	$343.17
This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to... Read More >>

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