Literature: history & criticism books

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All Is But Fantasy

All Is But Fantasy

Author: Whitney White
ISBN: 9781350639287
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A ground-breaking theatrical event of two high-energy gig-theatre performances that revisit the stories of four...  Read More >>

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and...

Author: Renée Bergland
ISBN: 9780691235301
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer...

Author: Holly A. Crocker
ISBN: 9781512829679
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of...

Author: Theodore Hughes (Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780231186070
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

Macao, Macaoness, Macanese: Literary Translation and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Macao

Macao, Macaoness, Macanese: Literary Translation and...

Author: Tenglong Wan
ISBN: 9789819566105
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book offers a comprehensive, in-depth study of literary translation in Macao, examining how translation mediates...  Read More >>

Writing Under Fascism: On Poetry and Creative Expression

Writing Under Fascism: On Poetry and Creative Expression...

Author: Margaret Randall
ISBN: 9781956375589
Format: Paperback
$26.40

In this standalone essay, Margaret Randall looks to poets Bertolt Brecht, Carolyn Forché, Nâzım Hikmet, Roque Dalton,...  Read More >>

The Book Lover's Guide to Rome

The Book Lover's Guide to Rome

Author: Andrew Edwards ,  Suzanne Edwards
ISBN: 9781036105174
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Discover the Rome that has inspired writers for centuries, from the Classical era to the present day. Walk in the...  Read More >>

The Craft of Living: Journals, 1935-1950

The Craft of Living: Journals, 1935-1950

Author: Cesare Pavese ,  Iuri Moscardi
ISBN: 9781487560508
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Through his journals (19351950), Cesare Pavese opens a door into his life as one of Italy's most influential writers....  Read More >>

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of...

Author: Theodore Hughes (Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780231186063
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

Epistemology and Secrecy in John Banville’s Crime Fiction

Epistemology and Secrecy in John Banville’s Crime Fiction...

Author: Joakim Wrethed
ISBN: 9783032164643
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book is a phenomenological study of the crime fiction of Benjamin Black and John Banville, including novels...  Read More >>

Top Gs Like Me

Top Gs Like Me

Author: Samson Hawkins
ISBN: 9781350640344
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Top Gs Like Me dives headfirst into the influence of online culture, the pull of toxic masculinity, and the search...  Read More >>

An Ark

An Ark

Author: Simon Stephens (Author)
ISBN: 9781350632431
Format: Paperback
$22.99

In An Ark, the first play created for mixed reality, four actors guide you through a deeply personal exploration...  Read More >>

Pushkin: A Writer's Biography

Pushkin: A Writer's Biography

Author: Yuri Lotman ,  Ilya Nemirovsky
ISBN: 9798887196442
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Yuri Lotman's biography of Pushkin is a classic work of Soviet literary scholarship, presenting an image of Russia's...  Read More >>

Arthur Miller’s New York: Visions of the City

Arthur Miller’s New York: Visions of the City

Author: Stephen Marino (Formerly of St Francis College, Brooklyn, USA)
ISBN: 9781350524750
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

Snack

Snack

Author: Eurie Dahn (Professor of English, Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765108840
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Vol. 3 (novel)

I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Vol....

Author: Izumi Okido ,  Jyun Hayase
ISBN: 9798855407150
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Speculative Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Speculative Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology...

Author: Benjamin Warner (Towson University, USA) ,  Professor Ron Tanner (Professor Emeritus, Loyola University, USA, Loyola University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350408494
Format: Paperback
$49.99

An accessible and wide-ranging all-in-one craft guide and anthology to the mode of speculative fiction writing,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to French Art Song

The Cambridge Companion to French Art Song

Author: Stephen Rumph (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9781009087575
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Drawing on new research, this wide-ranging book includes chapters by both scholars and performers. It gives proper...  Read More >>

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