Literature: history & criticism books

418202 books were found.

Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities: The Poetry (Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn) of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá

Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities: The Poetry...

Author: Professor or Dr. Akinloyè Òjó (University of Georgia, USA)
ISBN: 9781501390623
Format: Hardback
$190.00

A scholarly consideration of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá and his anthology, Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn, via the analysis of...  Read More >>

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: 9781350408487
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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: 9781316514474
Format: Hardback
$207.00

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

New Directions in Digital Textual Studies: Book History, Scholarly Editing and Curation in Conversation

New Directions in Digital Textual Studies: Book History,...

Author: Christopher Ohge (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.) ,  Kristen Schuster (King’s College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350406773
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Photography and Film in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Photography and Film in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee...

Author: Hermann Wittenberg (University of Western Cape)
ISBN: 9781009548342
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Scholars, students and general readers of J. M. Coetzee's novels will find this book a fascinating guide to one...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 1: Medieval Arthurian Literatures and Cultures

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Raluca L. Radulescu (Bangor University, Wales) ,  Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781316516003
Format: Hardback
$362.25

The authoritative source for those wanting to explore the flourishing medieval world of Arthur from its very beginnings,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 2: Arthurian Literatures and Cultures: 1500 to the Present

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Raluca L. Radulescu (Bangor University, Wales) ,  Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781316516010
Format: Hardback
$362.25

Charting the global spread of Arthuriana up to the present day, the second volume of this history foregrounds non-English...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company...

Author: Dr Ronan Hatfull (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Dr. Farah Karim Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350457614
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The first dedicated historical study of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, this book explores the troupe’s four major...  Read More >>

Gulliver’s Afterlives: 300 Years of Transmedia Adaptation

Gulliver’s Afterlives: 300 Years of Transmedia Adaptation...

Author: Dr Daniel Cook (University of Dundee, UK)
ISBN: 9781350464377
Format: Hardback
$130.00

The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gulliver’s Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that...  Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...

Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York)
ISBN: 9781009584579
Format: Hardback
$232.88

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

Ballad Business: Selling Early Modern Theatre

Ballad Business: Selling Early Modern Theatre

Author: Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781107179677
Format: Hardback
$284.63

In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads...  Read More >>

Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange: 1550–1850

Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange: 1550–1850...

Author: Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK) ,  Louise Duckling (Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9781350512283
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long...  Read More >>

Criminal Women in Contemporary French Crime Fiction: Gender, Genre and the Polar Féministe

Criminal Women in Contemporary French Crime Fiction:...

Author: Dr Ciara Gorman (Senior Tutor, Maynooth University, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350529410
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which women’s violence, victimhood and villainy are portrayed in...  Read More >>

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Author: Stacey McDowell (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781009380423
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction

The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian...

Author: Kritish Rajbhandari (Reed College, Oregon)
ISBN: 9781009627757
Format: Hardback
$245.81

As one among few studies of Indian Ocean literature, this book will benefit scholars and students in humanistic...  Read More >>

William James and Literary Studies

William James and Literary Studies

Author: Kate Stanley (University of Western Ontario) ,  Kristen Case (The Monson Seminar)
ISBN: 9781009688635
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Demonstrates William James's role in the history of Anglo-American literary production and the practice of literary...  Read More >>

Banning Books in America: Not a How-to

Banning Books in America: Not a How-to

Author: Samuel Cohen (University of Missouri, USA)
ISBN: 9798765138076
Format: Hardback
$36.99

Professors, high school teachers, novelists, anti-censorship advocates, and librarians confront and examine the...  Read More >>

African Literature in Transition: Volume 5: Genres of African Literature, 1900–2020

African Literature in Transition: Volume 5: Genres of...

Author: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9781009694643
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Offers literary histories and analyses of different genres in African literature and verbal arts. The genres covered...  Read More >>

Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction: Morris, Tolkien, Le Guin

Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction: Morris, Tolkien,...

Author: Dion Dobrzynski (Bath Spa University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350547575
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book looks at how they engage...  Read More >>

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