Literature: history & criticism books

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The Americas' First Sermons: The Nahuatl Sermonary of Fray Bernardino De Sahagún

The Americas' First Sermons: The Nahuatl Sermonary of...

Author: Ben Leeming ,  Bernardino de Sahagun
ISBN: 9781647692551
Format: Paperback
$104.00

""First publication of the complete sermonary composed by Bernardino de Sahagâun and his Nahua students at the Colegio...  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 >>

Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination

Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary...

Author: Stéphanie É. Binder (Bar-Ilan University and University of Haifa)
ISBN: 9781009481779
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

Tales of Virillia: The Last Light

Tales of Virillia: The Last Light

Author: N R Ashworth
ISBN: 9781970853766
Format: Paperback
$50.13

She wakes to a map she doesn't remember drawing... and a life she can't recall living. In Tales of Virillia:...  Read More >>

West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture

West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco,...

Author: Lori Harrison-Kahan
ISBN: 9780814352328
Format: Paperback
$85.99

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Testimony, Faith and Religion in Early Modern English Literature: Making Belief

Testimony, Faith and Religion in Early Modern English...

Author: Joseph Ashmore (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009564045
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Joseph Ashmore argues that early modern literature became a key site for handling questions of faith during the...  Read More >>

John Milton in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture

John Milton in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual...

Author: Laura Fox Gill (University of Lincoln)
ISBN: 9781009665421
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Laura Fox Gill sheds new light on Milton's afterlives in a multimedia age, expanding our understanding of literary...  Read More >>

Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination

Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary...

Author: Stéphanie É. Binder (Bar-Ilan University and University of Haifa)
ISBN: 9781009481793
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives, Friendship and Writings

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives,...

Author: Susan Dunne
ISBN: 9781036135096
Format: Hardback
$80.00

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell shared one of the most remarkable literary friendships of the 19th century,...  Read More >>

Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels

Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels

Author: Ahmet Atas
ISBN: 9781666978926
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An investigation of the specific uses of the motif of melancholy in modern Kurdish novels  Read More >>

Gender and Identity in Arab Women's Literature: Ink and Identity

Gender and Identity in Arab Women's Literature: Ink...

Author: Diana Obeid ,  Sonia Lamrani
ISBN: 9781666974249
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This volume explores the evolution of Arab women's self-representations in literature, highlighting their resistance...  Read More >>

Bramble

Bramble

Author: Susan Stewart
ISBN: 9780226847467
Format: Hardback
$36.95

This seventh collection by acclaimed poet Susan Stewart offers a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature....  Read More >>

Maggie Humm – Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Writing and the Visual

Maggie Humm – Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf,...

Author: Maggie Humm (Emeritus Professor, University of East London)
ISBN: 9781399560979
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Brings together Maggie Humm's pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures....  Read More >>

Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated: Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip

Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated: Selections from...

Author: Remco E. Breuker ,  Robert E. Buswell
ISBN: 9798880701902
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as...  Read More >>

Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage

Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early...

Author: Pavneet Aulakh (Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Vanderbilt University) ,  James Kearney (Professor of English, University of California - Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781399520836
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in Literature and Political Culture: Violent Borders and Gender Orders

Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in...

Author: Joshua D. Martin
ISBN: 9781666966442
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A look into how Anglo masculinities weaponize forms of violence to bolster U.S. interests and expand borders, establishing...  Read More >>

Buen vivir y giro ecoterritorial en las literaturas de América Latina

Buen vivir y giro ecoterritorial en las literaturas...

Author: Ángel Esteban ,  Jesús Montoya Juárez
ISBN: 9783631941980
Format: Paperback
$240.11

El compromiso ecológico es, hoy día, una necesidad incuestionable, y el ""Buen vivir"", o ""Vivir bien"", una utopía,...  Read More >>

Tales of Virillia: The Last Light

Tales of Virillia: The Last Light

Author: N R Ashworth
ISBN: 9781970853773
Format: Hardback
$65.97

She wakes to a map she doesn't remember drawing... and a life she can't recall living. In Tales of Virillia:...  Read More >>

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature,...

Author: Lindsay Diehl
ISBN: 9781771127288
Format: Paperback
$74.80

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The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John...

Author: J.A. Weingarten ,  Lorna Crozier
ISBN: 9781771126847
Format: Paperback
$84.70

The Weather and the Words depicts the poet John Newlove's life. Newlove's letters are a record not just of one person's...  Read More >>

Refuting Antisemitism: Dismantling the Stereotypes, Canards, and Tropes of Jew Hatred

Refuting Antisemitism: Dismantling the Stereotypes,...

Author: Jeremy Havardi
ISBN: 9781680533903
Format: Hardback
$74.80

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By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory on the Grammatika Vases

By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory...

Author: Maria Nasioula
ISBN: 9780674303300
Format: Paperback
$34.95

By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights...  Read More >>

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