Literature: history & criticism books

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Resonant Utterances: James Joyce and the Transmission of Voices

Resonant Utterances: James Joyce and the Transmission...

Author: Joshua Elwer
ISBN: 9783119142083
Format: Hardback
$71.47

The main question confronted in this book is why James Joyce’s characters so often repeat the words of other characters....  Read More >>

Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature

Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature...

Author: Alanna Skuse
ISBN: 9783032045645
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early...  Read More >>

Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching: Early Black Christian Women's Lives Matter

Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching:...

Author: April C. E. Langley ,  Melba Joyce Boyd
ISBN: 9780814349908
Format: Hardback
$215.00

This timely examination of early Black Christian women and their writing reminds us of the importance of retrieving...  Read More >>

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode...

Author: Michelle Anya Anjirbag ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814351093
Format: Hardback
$224.00

Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths...  Read More >>

Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine

Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine...

Author: Hanan Ayalti ,  Adi Mahalel
ISBN: 9780814351796
Format: Hardback
$220.00

The novel raises important questions around the development of discourse about Israel/Palestine, socialist Zionism...  Read More >>

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Author: Lola Boorman (Lecturer in American Literature and Culture, University of York)
ISBN: 9781399547543
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Explores the intersection of American literature and language politics through the curiously understudied subject...  Read More >>

Metaphors We Read By: Rethinking Literary Experience and Interpretation

Metaphors We Read By: Rethinking Literary Experience...

Author: Lucas Thompson (Lecturer in the Department of English & Writing, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781399546188
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An experiment in reading and interpretation, which shows how different interpretive metaphors transform our experience...  Read More >>

Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry

Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry

Author: Elin Käck (Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University)
ISBN: 9781399536134
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how twentieth-century American poets' European travel shaped the terrain of modern American poetry.  Read More >>

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender...

Author: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the 2025-2026 Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow, University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781399538091
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities.  Read More >>

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Author: Marion Thain (Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh) ,  Ewan Jones (Associate Professor of English, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781399521116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde Writing

Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde...

Author: Craig J. Saper (Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9781474454728
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An examination of the way in which small presses expanded authorship to include publishing practices as forms of...  Read More >>

Poetry at Your Best: Choosing the Right Ingredients to Make Delicious Poems

Poetry at Your Best: Choosing the Right Ingredients...

Author: Jessica Joy Renshaw
ISBN: 9781646456604
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Discover your creative connection to God and find joy in expressing your soul. Have you ever longed to express...  Read More >>

The Last Westerner

The Last Westerner

Author: Chilton Williamson, Jr.
ISBN: 9781587314483
Format: Paperback
$32.95

This is a tale of one man's road toward fulfillment that plays out in stages of encounters and abandonment instead...  Read More >>

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins...

Author: Bill Gillard
ISBN: 9781041010494
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture

Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature...

Author: Bill Ashcroft
ISBN: 9781041128748
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture offers a fresh and thought-provoking exploration...  Read More >>

Learn Mandarin Chinese Characters (Part 10)- Children's Chinese Reading Odyssey, Uncomplicated Assessments, Simplified Characters & HSK Mental Games

Learn Mandarin Chinese Characters (Part 10)- Children's...

Author: Meina Wang
ISBN: 9798895542088
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Welcome to Simple Test Series for Kids and Beginner Students of Chinese! Learning Chinese characters doesn't have...  Read More >>

Learn Mandarin Chinese Characters (Part 9)- Chinese Reading Quest for Youngsters, Simple Tests, Simplified Chinese & HSK Brain Exercises

Learn Mandarin Chinese Characters (Part 9)- Chinese...

Author: Meina Wang
ISBN: 9798895542071
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Welcome to Simple Test Series for Kids and Beginner Students of Chinese! Learning Chinese characters doesn't have...  Read More >>

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

Author: David Eldridge ,  John le Carré
ISBN: 9781350618305
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

Author: Margarita Vaysman (Professor, Professor, University of Oxford) ,  Katherine A. Bowers (Professor, Professor, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
ISBN: 9780197610640
Format: Hardback
$419.95

Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across...  Read More >>

Imagine a Nation: Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland

Imagine a Nation: Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland...

Author: Hamid Dabashi
ISBN: 9780755655625
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A critical and theoretical interpretation of six major modern Persian poets and the idea of a homeland, by Hamid...  Read More >>

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives

Author: Roger Johnson ,  Jean Upton
ISBN: 9781837050918
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives is light-hearted and highly informative, and perfect for both the Sherlock aficionado...  Read More >>

K-12 Classroom Research in Language Teaching and Learning: Narratives for Understanding and Engaging in Teacher Research

K-12 Classroom Research in Language Teaching and Learning:...

Author: Kate Mastruserio Reynolds ,  Khanh-Duc Kuttig
ISBN: 9781032780115
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This edited volume presents narratives on a range of methods for research on second language teaching and learning...  Read More >>

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