Literature: history & criticism books

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Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You A Better Writer

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You A Better...

Author: Gary Alan McBride
ISBN: 9798999659811
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You a Better Writer is a unique reference guide designed to teach writers...  Read More >>

Antigone

Antigone

Author: Sophocles ,  Elizabeth Wyckoff
ISBN: 9780226844657
Format: Paperback
$19.95

English translation of Sophocles' tragic story of Antigone addresses civil disobedience and a moral imperative which...  Read More >>

Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition...

Author: Samuele Collu
ISBN: 9781478032946
Format: Paperback
$60.50

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood...

Author: Lauren Rule Maxwell
ISBN: 9781603297219
Format: Hardback
$208.00

Explore creative approaches for teaching literature that interlace pressing social issues—climate challenges, political...  Read More >>

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction...

Author: Amy De'Ath
ISBN: 9781503643840
Format: Hardback
$300.00

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the wayour lives are shaped...  Read More >>

Holocaust and Hope: Literature, Testimony, Media

Holocaust and Hope: Literature, Testimony, Media

Author: Geoffrey Hartman ,  Kevis Goodman
ISBN: 9781531512200
Format: Hardback
$254.00

A final work by one of our major critics, contemplating how acts of distant witnessing can continue in future generations....  Read More >>

At the Margins of Nihilism: Deconstruction and Social Death

At the Margins of Nihilism: Deconstruction and Social...

Author: John E. Drabinski
ISBN: 9781531512361
Format: Hardback
$243.00

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France

Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in...

Author: Natania Meeker
ISBN: 9781531512569
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure....  Read More >>

The Horror Theory Reader

The Horror Theory Reader

Author: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
ISBN: 9781517917814
Format: Hardback
$270.00

A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses...  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 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 Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu

The Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu

Author: Stan Lee ,  John Severin
ISBN: 9798875001086
Format: Hardback
$65.95

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Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain

Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists...

Author: Kristin Bluemel
ISBN: 9781517914769
Format: Hardback
$270.00

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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 >>

Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition...

Author: Samuele Collu
ISBN: 9781478029519
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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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

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Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces

Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces

Author: Wislawa Szymborska
ISBN: 9780063490437
Format: Paperback
$27.49

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