Literature: history & criticism books

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Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need

Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature,...

Author: Ian Marshall
ISBN: 9780813955186
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Nature's ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river,...  Read More >>

Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom

Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom

Author: Uwe Rasch
ISBN: 9783031576089
Format: Hardback
$118.77

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American Writers in Paris: Then and Now

American Writers in Paris: Then and Now

Author: Ferdâ Asya
ISBN: 9783031669897
Format: Hardback
$448.77

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Corporeality in the Novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Sony Labou Tansi: Bodies in (Con)texts

Corporeality in the Novels of Gabriel García Márquez...

Author: Gilbert Shang Ndi
ISBN: 9783032018014
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women

William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women...

Author: Jodie Marley
ISBN: 9783032038173
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical Companion

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical...

Author: Joseph Rex Young
ISBN: 9783032080226
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's...  Read More >>

Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art

Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives...

Author: Muhammad Waqar Azeem
ISBN: 9783032081902
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law...  Read More >>

New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle

New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle

Author: David A. Ibitson
ISBN: 9783032089724
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions...  Read More >>

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological Study

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological...

Author: Ármann Jakobsson
ISBN: 9783032111869
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British Performance

Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British...

Author: Eleanor Rycroft ,  Greg Walker
ISBN: 9783032121288
Format: Hardback
$118.77

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Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century: Redefining World Literature

Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century:...

Author: Ying Xiong
ISBN: 9783032121844
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to...  Read More >>

Human-Animal Relations in the Indigenous Literatures of the Soviet North

Human-Animal Relations in the Indigenous Literatures...

Author: Eeva Kuikka
ISBN: 9783032084149
Format: Hardback
$158.37

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Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

Author: Luke Roberts (Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry _x000D_, King’s College London_x000D_)
ISBN: 9781399519861
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Author: Robert White (Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781399516228
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation, 1820–45

British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation,...

Author: Alexis Easley (Professor of English, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota)
ISBN: 9781399514019
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The first edited essay collection of its kind to focus on innovators and innovations in the mass-market press from...  Read More >>

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Author: Frederick D. King (Assistant Professor for the Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University)
ISBN: 9781399525954
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture...  Read More >>

China's Jiangsu Province Locations & Geography (Part 11)- Learn Chinese Characters, Pinyin & English for Jiangsu Surnames, Cities, and HSK Exams

China's Jiangsu Province Locations & Geography (Part...

Author: Limin Liu
ISBN: 9798895844267
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Welcome to China's Jiangsu Province: Locations & Geography-a fun, interactive book designed to help kids master...  Read More >>

Jean-Noël Pancrazi, variations de l'intime

Jean-Noël Pancrazi, variations de l'intime

Author: Agnès Lhermitte ,  Fabienne Marié Liger
ISBN: 9782336586526
Format: Paperback
$61.59

Membre du jury Renaudot, Jean-Noël Pancrazi poursuit depuis 1979 une oeuvre singulière et cohérente, maintes fois...  Read More >>

April Harvest, Swans, and Joys

April Harvest, Swans, and Joys

Author: Francis Vielé-Griffin ,  Richard Robinson
ISBN: 9781955392853
Format: Paperback
$68.51

This is an English-language translation of the first, second, and fourth books of poetry by Francis Vielé-Griffin...  Read More >>

明光36號(中英雙語版): Ming Guang 36 (Chinese-English Bilingual Edition)

明光36號(中英雙語版):...

Author: Gwen Li ,  余國英
ISBN: 9781665801294
Format: Paperback
$105.60

1929年至1933年,世界經濟大蕭條。孤兒林喬治1931年在一隻被遺棄的竹籃中出現人間,孤苦無依、身無一物,被已有35名女孤兒的明光孤兒院命名為明光36號,卻憑藉著社會各方的援手與他自身堅韌不拔的奮鬥,一步一步走過風雨坎坷。時光流轉,至2025年,他已是九十四高齡的長者。這位曾經的孤兒,如今卻成為擁有一切的幸福老人。...  Read More >>

Le poids des épreuves, la légèreté de l'espoir

Le poids des épreuves, la légèreté de l'espoir

Author: Mamadou Sy
ISBN: 9782322617227
Format: Paperback
$75.24

Le poids des épreuves, la légèreté de l'espoir est un récit autobiographique et philosophique dans lequel Mamadou...  Read More >>

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading...

Author: Harryette Mullen (Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles) ,  Georgina Colby (Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Westminster)
ISBN: 9781399533355
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day  Read More >>

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