Literature: history & criticism books

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Procedures of Resistance: Contents, Positions and the 'Doings' of Literary Theory

Procedures of Resistance: Contents, Positions and the...

Author: Davor Beganović ,  Zrinka Božić
ISBN: 9783031493850
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory....  Read More >>

Marlow's Dream: Joseph Conrad in Antipodean

Marlow's Dream: Joseph Conrad in Antipodean

Author: Martin Edmond
ISBN: 9780648629702
Format: Paperback
$35.00

"Before establishing his literary career with ""Heart of Darkness"" in 1899, Joseph Conrad was a merchant mariner,...  Read More >>

神性-人性-兽性(上卷)

神性-人性-兽性(上卷)...

Author: Jin Qiuyan
ISBN: 9781683726210
Format: Paperback
$52.77

本书通过奚秋潇从贫寒子弟成长为全国著名企业总经理党委书记,最终为了贪污几十万元人民币而身陷囹圄的人生轨迹,呈现出中国大陆近50年来农村、工厂、学校、商业企业全面广泛巨大深刻的变迁,折射出这种变迁对人性的猛烈撞击以及假神性对人性的摧残、兽性对人性的戕害、人性复苏的艰涩。...  Read More >>

神性-人性-兽性(中卷)

神性-人性-兽性(中卷)...

Author: Jin Qiuyan
ISBN: 9781683726227
Format: Paperback
$52.77

本书通过奚秋潇从贫寒子弟成长为全国著名企业总经理党委书记,最终为了贪污几十万元人民币而身陷囹圄的人生轨迹,呈现出中国大陆近50年来农村、工厂、学校、商业企业全面广泛巨大深刻的变迁,折射出这种变迁对人性的猛烈撞击以及假神性对人性的摧残、兽性对人性的戕害、人性复苏的艰涩。...  Read More >>

Paris: A Literary Anthology

Paris: A Literary Anthology

Author: Zachary Seager
ISBN: 9781035023615
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A sparkling celebration of Paris by some of the greatest writers in the world from the 19th and 20th centuries....  Read More >>

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion

Author: Rosemary Gray ,  Rosemary Gray
ISBN: 9781035031689
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A fascinating literary overview of London across the centuries, through the beautiful and varied writing it has...  Read More >>

Horror in Classical Literature: ‘On a Profound and Elementary Principle'

Horror in Classical Literature: ‘On a Profound and Elementary...

Author: Edmund P. Cueva
ISBN: 9781837720934
Format: Hardback
$124.95

"Bridges ancient Graeco-Roman texts with modern appreciations of the horror genre and introduces them to students,...  Read More >>

The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore Being an Appendix to the Author's 'Legend of Sir Lancelot'

The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore...

Author: Jessie Weston
ISBN: 9789357934596
Format: Paperback
$41.90

The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore Being an Appendix to the Author's 'Legend of Sir Lancelot',...  Read More >>

Three Days in the Village, and Other Sketches Written from September 1909 to July 1910.

Three Days in the Village, and Other Sketches Written...

Author: Graf Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9789357930529
Format: Paperback
$41.18

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The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's; With Other Essays

The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's;...

Author: David Masson
ISBN: 9789357939140
Format: Paperback
$50.90

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The Three Comrades

The Three Comrades

Author: Krist�na Royov�
ISBN: 9789357938969
Format: Paperback
$43.14

The Three Comrades, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio

Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the...

Author: Chris Laoutaris
ISBN: 9780008238414
Format: Paperback
$24.99

‘A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed’...  Read More >>

Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell

Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven...

Author: Blair Davis
ISBN: 9781978828223
Format: Hardback
$192.59

This book presents an 80-year history of how the comics industry has drawn inspiration from biblical imagery, stories,...  Read More >>

Beckett Ongoing: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics

Beckett Ongoing: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics

Author: Michael Krimper ,  Gabriel Quigley
ISBN: 9783031420290
Format: Hardback
$369.57

“You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” These are some of the most quoted lines written by Samuel Beckett,...  Read More >>

Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries)

Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts...

Author: Anne Duprat ,  Fiona McIntosh Varjabédian
ISBN: 9781032358628
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries) proposes a multidisciplinary analysis...  Read More >>

Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema

Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema

Author: Bernard Montoneri
ISBN: 9783031523144
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema discusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special...  Read More >>

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction...

Author: Paul Hamann-Rose
ISBN: 9783031530999
Format: Hardback
$316.77

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the...  Read More >>

Paul de Man

Paul de Man

Author: Nigel Mapp
ISBN: 9780745631844
Format: Hardback
$103.95

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Linguistic Resources for Natural Language Processing: On the Necessity of Using Linguistic Methods to Develop NLP Software

Linguistic Resources for Natural Language Processing:...

Author: Max Silberztein
ISBN: 9783031438103
Format: Hardback
$422.37

Empirical — data-driven, neural network-based, probabilistic, and statistical — methods seem to be the modern trend....  Read More >>

Contemporary Representations of Forced Migration in Europe: Beyond Regime and Refuge

Contemporary Representations of Forced Migration in...

Author: Fiona Barclay ,  Beatrice Ivey
ISBN: 9783031478307
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book engages with current debates around refugeedom by examining cultural production that represents and interrogates...  Read More >>

Practice

Practice

Author: Rosalind Brown
ISBN: 9781399614535
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, her fantasies,...  Read More >>

Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec: Ways of Belonging

Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec: Ways...

Author: Dervila Cooke
ISBN: 9783031459351
Format: Hardback
$258.72

As with the companion volume on France, societal factors are discussed, here relating to the cultural renaissance...  Read More >>

Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature, and Life

Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature,...

Author: George Pattison (University of Glasgow, University of St Andrews, and University of Copenhagen)
ISBN: 9780198881544
Format: Hardback
$63.95

Conversations with Dostoevsky presents a series of fictional conversations between George Pattison and Russian novelist...  Read More >>

Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance: The Voice Extended

Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance:...

Author: Casey Schoenberger (Lecturer in Transnational Asian Studies, Lecturer in Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University)
ISBN: 9780198886211
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This innovative study introduces the rhythms, melodies, language, and organization of traditional Chinese poetry...  Read More >>

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