Literature: history & criticism books

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Aerial Archives of Race: African American Cultural Expressions and the Black Nuclear Pacific

Aerial Archives of Race: African American Cultural Expressions...

Author: Etsuko Taketani
ISBN: 9780520425200
Format: Hardback
$157.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah

Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli...

Author: Jane Kanarek
ISBN: 9781684582990
Format: Paperback
$74.95

""Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud...  Read More >>

The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition

The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab...

Author: Sarah R. Bin Tyeer
ISBN: 9780520424968
Format: Hardback
$157.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist

Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist

Author: Tracy Carr
ISBN: 9781496859686
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Collected interviews with the National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan and many other critically...  Read More >>

Real and Imagined Worlds: Claude McKay's Poetry and Prose

Real and Imagined Worlds: Claude McKay's Poetry and...

Author: Charles Scruggs
ISBN: 9781496860385
Format: Hardback
$229.00

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Pen and Pencil

Pen and Pencil

Author: Duncan Robinson
ISBN: 9781843682653
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Richly illustrated examination of the relationship between art and literature in English art from Hogarth to Constable....  Read More >>

Dante the Heretic: An Exploration of Cathar Beliefs in the Divine Comedy

Dante the Heretic: An Exploration of Cathar Beliefs...

Author: Maria Soresina ,  Caterina Soresina Stoppani
ISBN: 9798881904029
Format: Hardback
$166.32

The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that Cathar doctrine is the main source of Dante's poem and to encourage...  Read More >>

On Human Excellence: Its Nature…Its Invitation…Its Pursuit…Its Acquisition…Its Challenges…Its Rewards…Its Promise…

On Human Excellence: Its Nature…Its Invitation…Its Pursuit…Its...

Author: S Rutherford McDill Jr.
ISBN: 9781035845606
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Everyone uses the word, usually somewhat in awe, certainly with respect; Alfred Nobel by means of his will left...  Read More >>

L'iris bleu

L'iris bleu

Author: Aicard Jean
ISBN: 9783691046557
Format: Paperback
$140.58

Dans un Paris sale et froid, M. Denis Marcant, chef de division au ministère de l'intérieur, prend un train matinal...  Read More >>

Le poète assassiné

Le poète assassiné

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
ISBN: 9783691046489
Format: Paperback
$55.41

Dans un monde où la réalité se confond avec l'imaginaire, Croniamantal se dresse comme un poète prophétique, traqué...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire...

Author: Auritro Majumder (University of Houston)
ISBN: 9781009554404
Format: Paperback
$72.45

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

Performing Visible Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays

Performing Visible Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays...

Author: Patricia Lennox (New York University)
ISBN: 9781009624459
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses...  Read More >>

Unveiling Lady Scott: Walter Scott, French Influence and Transcultural Connections

Unveiling Lady Scott: Walter Scott, French Influence...

Author: Céline Sabiron (University of Lorraine)
ISBN: 9781009535335
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters

Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist...

Author: Katja Haustein (University of Kent, Canterbury)
ISBN: 9781009363273
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Alone With Others provides an unparalleled intellectual-historical account of tact in modernist literature, film,...  Read More >>

A Funny Thing: Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined

A Funny Thing: Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined...

Author: Eugenia Zuroski (McMaster University, Ontario)
ISBN: 9781009486262
Format: Paperback
$77.60

For any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction and how they challenge colonial...  Read More >>

The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author: Thomas Fahy (Long Island University, NY)
ISBN: 9781119913030
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life...  Read More >>

The Playboy of the Western World

The Playboy of the Western World

Author: John Millington Synge
ISBN: 9781350624832
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A new edition of John Millington Synge’s riveting story of youth and self-discovery, published to coincide with...  Read More >>

Einführung in die Lyrik: Grundlagen und Formen der Poesie

Einführung in die Lyrik: Grundlagen und Formen der Poesie...

Author: Fritz Stavenhagen
ISBN: 9783746068107
Format: Paperback
$36.70

Diese Einführung bietet einen einfühlsamen, anschaulichen und persönlichen Abriss der Grundlagen und Formensprache...  Read More >>

On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy

On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus...

Author: Ira Wells
ISBN: 9781771966634
Format: Paperback
$31.02

The freedom to read is under attack. From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today's state-sponsored...  Read More >>

Toute faute en revient à mes franges: La vie, les oeuvres de Sevgi Soysal et les procès-verbaux liés à l'accusation du 12 mars 1971 en Turquie

Toute faute en revient à mes franges: La vie, les oeuvres...

Author: Deniz Keziban Çakici
ISBN: 9782336577166
Format: Paperback
$103.67

En articulant analyse littéraire et étude d'archives, Deniz Keziban Çakıcı explore la pensée et l'écriture de Sevgi...  Read More >>

L'hérésiarque et Cie

L'hérésiarque et Cie

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
ISBN: 9783691046670
Format: Paperback
$106.00

L'heresiarque et Cie de Guillaume Apollinaire. Poete et ecrivain francais, ne sujet polonais de l'Empire russe...  Read More >>

Chinese Character Writing IQ Test (Part 2)- The Stroke Puzzle Adventure, Count Strokes, Investigate, Decode, and Unlock Simplified Characters for All HSK Levels

Chinese Character Writing IQ Test (Part 2)- The Stroke...

Author: Xueyan Wang
ISBN: 9798895843925
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Imagine turning the challenge of learning Chinese characters into a thrilling adventure where every stroke counts!...  Read More >>

Chinese Character Writing IQ Test (Part 1)- The Stroke Puzzle Adventure, Count Storkes, Investigate, Decode, Crack the Code and Unlock Simplified Characters, HSK All Levels

Chinese Character Writing IQ Test (Part 1)- The Stroke...

Author: Xueyan Wang
ISBN: 9798895843918
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Imagine turning the challenge of learning Chinese characters into a thrilling adventure where every stroke counts!...  Read More >>

Chinese Character Writing IQ Test (Part 5)- The Stroke Challenge, Count, Decode, and Unlock Simplified Chinese Secrets for Every HSK Level

Chinese Character Writing IQ Test (Part 5)- The Stroke...

Author: Xueyan Wang
ISBN: 9798895843956
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Imagine turning the challenge of learning Chinese characters into a thrilling adventure where every stroke counts!...  Read More >>

Chinese Character Writing IQ Test (Part 4)- Count Strokes, Investigate, Decode, A Stroke Puzzle Adventure Through Simplified Characters for HSK Learners

Chinese Character Writing IQ Test (Part 4)- Count Strokes,...

Author: Xueyan Wang
ISBN: 9798895843949
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Imagine turning the challenge of learning Chinese characters into a thrilling adventure where every stroke counts!...  Read More >>

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